Numbers
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The
numbers
won't determine the outcome.
In this context, the laws of physics can't explain one number for the dark energy because there isn't just one number, there are many
numbers.
If you think that 25 million people are infected, if you think that the UNAIDS
numbers
are much too high, maybe that's more like 10 or 15 million.
What they don't say is, "Well, the
numbers
all seem to add up, but before I present this idea, I'll show it to some really crazy people to see if they can come up with something better."
Citizens of many host countries, even those that previously welcomed newcomers, are uneasy about the rising
numbers
of individuals coming into their countries.
Instead, I'm really interested in building tools that allow large
numbers
of other people to tell their stories, people all around the world.
They were memorizing hundreds of random numbers, looking at them just once.
When they put these guys in an fMRI machine, scanned their brains while they were memorizing
numbers
and people's faces and pictures of snowflakes, they found that the memory champions were lighting up different parts of the brain than everyone else.
What Simonides figured out at that moment, is something that I think we all kind of intuitively know, which is that, as bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers, and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
Now, it is nice to be able to memorize speeches and phone
numbers
and shopping lists, but it's actually kind of beside the point.
And it's not that they didn't remember the
numbers
that we gave them; everyone remembers that the average likelihood of cancer is about 30 percent and the average likelihood of divorce is about 40 percent.
But they didn't think that those
numbers
were related to them.
Look, we all know the shocking
numbers.
But the reach of the criminal legal system has grown too enormous, and the
numbers
have just too large.
And it's when they reach this stable size, in
numbers
of ants, that they start to reproduce.
How is it that the colony manages to adjust the
numbers
of workers performing each task as conditions change?
So, with nobody telling anybody what to do, how is it that the colony manages to adjust the
numbers
of workers performing each task?
So, if I change the
numbers
performing one task, it changes the
numbers
performing another.
These are rounded
numbers.
You ask a question, write down some numbers, and get an answer.
OK, so let's put in some
numbers.
What do we do with these
numbers?
I'm not saying that's a bad idea; we just need to understand the
numbers.
So I'm a strong advocate of having grown-up conversations that are based on
numbers
and facts.
Okay, now I've given you a lot of
numbers
here, but they're mostly big numbers, okay, so, you know, keep that in mind.
And although the
numbers
were, and continue to be, extraordinary, what became more extraordinary was how the experience of critical and curious questioning translated into life.
The confused faces and shaky hands of people who have dementia, the big
numbers
of people who get it, they frighten us.
He'll sign his name on every line, he'll check all the boxes, he'll put
numbers
in where he thinks there should be
numbers.
Imagine a thing this high of cogs, hundreds and hundreds of them, and they've got
numbers
on them.
It prints just numbers, because he was obsessed with numbers, but it does print onto paper, and it even does word wrapping, so if you get to the end of the line, it goes around like that.
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