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In a thankfully voluntary section of OkCupid, you are allowed to rate how attractive you think people are on a
scale
between one and five.
Now, couples that were very low-risk scored a lot more positive points on Gottman's
scale
than negative.
And just to give you a sense of the
scale
of the motions here, a pretty loud sound will cause that bag of chips to move less than a micrometer.
I used computer science tools to replicate social science experiments at scale, at web
scale.
My next step is figuring out how to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to bring this project to
scale
and make it more accessible to other states.
Checking the quality of the air outside using this app on her iPad, the numbers were telling her the air quality was good, one on a
scale
of 500.
They've also been making enormous investments when it comes to clean and renewable energy, like hydropower, wind and solar, and the pace and the
scale
of this transformation has been absolutely mind-blowing.
Now I want to show you how, across emerging markets, entrepreneurs and companies are adopting frugal innovation on a larger
scale
to cost-effectively deliver healthcare and energy to billions of people who may have little income but very high aspirations.
Companies tend to
scale
up vertically by centralizing operations in big factories and warehouses, but if you want to be agile and deal with immense customer diversity, you need to
scale
out horizontally using a distributed supply chain with smaller manufacturing and distribution units, like Grameen Bank has shown.
We all know that ants and other insects at this size
scale
can do some pretty incredible things.
Well, first of all, how do we get the capabilities of an ant in a robot at the same size
scale?
But in order to look at mobility and locomotion at this size
scale
to start, we're cheating and using magnets.
The really interesting thing that this robot can help us figure out is how insects move at this
scale.
So I think you can imagine all the cool things that we could do with robots that can run and crawl and jump and roll at this size
scale.
Today's movements
scale
up very quickly without the organizational base that can see them through the challenges.
But movements today have to move beyond participation at great
scale
very fast and figure out how to think together collectively, develop strong policy proposals, create consensus, figure out the political steps and relate them to leverage, because all these good intentions and bravery and sacrifice by itself are not going to be enough.
In New Zealand, a group of young people are developing a platform called Loomio for participatory decision making at
scale.
Even on this scale, even with the rapid kind of growth that we saw in this environment here, we now know Ebola can be beaten.
And as you can anticipate, there was international alarm, international concern on a
scale
that we hadn't seen in recent years caused by a disease like this.
Not only did this virus continue in the places where they'd already become infected, but then it started to escalate and we saw the case numbers that you see here, something we'd never seen before on such a scale, an exponential increase of Ebola cases not just in these countries or the areas already infected in these countries but also spreading further and deeper into these countries.
The big question, ladies and gentlemen, was whether these strategies could work on this scale, in this situation, with so many countries affected with the kind of exponential growth that you saw.
The challenge now, of course, is doing this on the
scale
needed right across these three countries, and that is a huge challenge.
Because when you've been at something for this long, on this scale, two other big threats come in to join the virus.
To find out, let's start by looking at something on which men and women really do differ and plotting some psychological gender differences on the same
scale.
Now let's look at what some psychological gender differences look like on the same standardized
scale.
So I think one of the reasons people are disturbed by destroying books, people don't want to rip books and nobody really wants to throw away a book, is that we think about books as living things, we think about them as a body, and they're created to relate to our body, as far as scale, but they also have the potential to continue to grow and to continue to become new things.
But the problem with live music is that it didn't
scale.
So what we're working on is to make sure that AI can compose hundreds of hours of personalized music for those use cases where human creativity doesn't
scale.
Small windows, dehumanizing
scale.
The scope and
scale
of the problem seems so large that it feels overwhelming to think about how we might approach it.
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