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Women, back in the late 19th century, spent two days a week doing the laundry.
I spent my entire early career making complex stuff.
I've spent a lot of time studying the circuits in the brain that create the unique perceptual realities that we each have.
I don't know if you've ever seen a vulture up close or spent much time with them, but they're huge, huge.
I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse, on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happens in the schoolhouse.
I was so disgusted I spent my money on this thing.
Everyone knew who I was, so I thought I was a pretty big deal, and I was protected, and even though my dad spent most of my life in and out of jail, I had an amazing mom who was just fiercely independent.
I've spent most of my career researching these programs.
And I know this because I spent my early life as a child.
She said she thought she might like to work in art or entertainment, but she hadn't decided yet, so she'd spent the last few years waiting tables instead.
She'd just bought a new address book, and she'd spent the morning filling in her many contacts, but then she'd been left staring at that empty blank that comes after the words "In case of emergency, please call ..." She was nearly hysterical when she looked at me and said, "Who's going to be there for me if I get in a car wreck?
My colleagues and I at Intel have spent the last few years looking at the ways in which digital platforms are reshaping our everyday lives, what kinds of new routines are possible.
Jim and Shirley Modini spent their 68 years of marriage living off the grid on their 1,700-acre ranch in the mountains of Sonoma County.
Jim and Shirley spent this time letting friends know that their end was near and that they were okay with that.
Our original prototypes didn't have cameras at all, but it's been really magical to be able to capture moments spent with my family, my kids.
And he spent all this time stuck in the hospital while he was having those procedures, as a result of which, he now can walk.
It took a long time to persuade them to talk to me, and once they agreed, they were so full of their story that they couldn't stop telling it, and the first weekend I spent with them, the first of many, I recorded more than 20 hours of conversation.
And I spent four years with my colleagues Adam Pack and Fabienne Delfour, working out in the field with this keyboard using it with each other to do requests for toys while the dolphins were watching.
But unfortunately, about 65,000 dollars was spent on the project.
Seven brutal years of dictatorship which we spent in exile.
That work continues for six to 12 months, until all the houses are improved and we've spent our budget of 7,500 dollars total per house.
Once, I even spent two months in the winter working in a coal mine, 33 meters underground without any protection for up to 16 hours a day.
JK: I haven't spent much time with you, but I know that you still love me, and you probably still pray for me and think about me.
I spent 20 years studying human impacts in the ocean.
My colleague, Juan Mayorga, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has produced detailed maps of fishing effort, which means how much time and fuel is spent fishing in every pixel in the ocean.
You probably spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on fuel and photocopying and per diem.
He spent millions of dollars creating a bizarre personality cult, and his crowning glory was the building of a 40-foot-high gold-plated statue of himself which stood proudly in the capital's central square and rotated to follow the sun.
And there's a lot of really good questions that are asked and important questions that we spent quite a long time working on the answers to as we put together our report and the peer reviewed report.
And the most impressive feat here wasn't that it crushed human gamers, but that it crushed human AI researchers who had spent decades handcrafting game-playing software.
And their whole life will be spent taking pieces of many different places and putting them together into a stained glass whole.
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