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It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial, supernatural non-explanations, and blinds them to the wonderful, real explanations that we have within our grasp.
Now you would probably imagine, as she did, that a wrist sprain is a trivial event in a person's life.
This is not trivial, because listening is our access to understanding.
And he solved this problem of Galileo's, and he did it with a really relatively trivial piece of equipment.
A silly, trivial thing to do, but think of the difference on a team that didn't do that at all, that got 15 euro, put it in their pocket, maybe bought themselves a coffee, or teams that had this pro-social experience where they bonded together to buy something and do a group activity.
And these are not trivial differences in mortality rates.
The cost of doing a DNA sequence is going to be trivial.
I mean, how could a game so trivial intervene so powerfully in such serious, and in some cases life-and-death, circumstances?
It is nothing more than a trivial logic gate with four input-output states.
Okay? (Laughter) And it seems like a trivial result, but this is the sort of research that used to take the health system years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to accomplish.
That's no trivial accomplishment for AI to be able to do something like that.
So this is not trivial, given the idea that we want to revive extinct species, because it turns out that an African and an Asian elephant can actually interbreed and have live young, and this has actually occurred by accident in a zoo in Chester, U.K., in 1978.
It feels as if technologists have diverted us and enriched themselves with trivial toys, with things like iPhones and apps and social media, or algorithms that speed automated trading.
It's capitalism as it was ultimately meant to be, meeting important needs, not incrementally competing for trivial differences in product attributes and market share.
So let me give you a few examples of how these brilliant machines work, and some of the examples may seem trivial, some are clearly more profound, but all of them are going to have a very powerful impact.
That seems trivial, but it's less time spent caring for patients.
And yes, this is quite trivial, but actually the lessons from this can apply to that kind of personal area networks.
When I first saw Pixar's "Luxo Jr.," I was amazed by how much emotion they could put into something as trivial as a desk lamp.
Now for many of you, this story might seem trivial or naive.
And as a consequence, across the Western world, the over-simplistic policies of the parties of protest and their appeal to a largely disillusioned, older demographic, along with the apathy and obsession with the trivial that typifies at least some of the young, taken together, these and other similarly contemporary aberrations are threatening to squeeze the life out of active, informed debate and engagement, and I stress active.
A trivial example is this: Newton found the law of gravity, which goes like one over the square of the distance between the things gravitated.
These are not trivial activities.
Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture.
So if we are to unlock the power of data, we don't have to go blindly into Orwell's vision of a totalitarian future, or Huxley's vision of a trivial one, or some horrible cocktail of both.
It required that it was completely trivial: that it takes 30 seconds to reserve a car, go get it, drive it.
Couples that don't let things go and couples that don't let trivial things end up being a really big deal.
Some years ago, I stumbled across a simple design exercise that helps people understand and solve complex problems, and like many of these design exercises, it kind of seems trivial at first, but under deep inspection, it turns out that it reveals unexpected truths about the way that we collaborate and make sense of things.
Less than that, the drawing seems trivial, but it's quick to understand, and more than 13, the drawing produces a feeling of map shock.
Now, though this might seem trivial, it's actually really important.
So the seemingly trivial design exercise of drawing toast helps us get clear, engaged and aligned.
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