How to pronounce “function” in English

choices, then it's difficult to say what the function is that you're asserting exists.function is that you're asserting exists. You know, you- you want to have the view that, well, there is a way of choosing. I don't have aneasy way to say what the function is, but there definitely is one.

in entropy, the increase in disorder in a physical system. And when the entropy gets too large, the system can'tfunction the way it once did. And that's really what we call death, right? That'sreally what it means. And so in principle, we can imagine harnessing

metabolic health. So you get less diabetes, less high blood pressure, less high cholesterol. And these all of these things together improve erectilefunction. So I think making sure that you meet the criteria for fiber, which is 38 gramsfor men, 25 grams for women, um, is really really important. And then obviously managing your calories and a

derailing his ability to be intimate with his wife, his ability to focus in law school, his ability to reallyfunction in any way, shape or form. And he does what what I know I've done andwhat what I think many many many men have done which is you're facing some sort of crisis and you just say I'm

I'll go where you just went. It's a threat to civilization. The reason that we couldfunction, create governments, endow universities, run schools,um do all the things that make us a functioning civilization not just

There's studies coming out all the time, adding to this fascinating body of evidence that connects attitudes towards aging to how our minds and bodiesfunction at the cellular level.People with more positive feelings about aging-- that's usually how the media puts it-- but it's not that we shouldn't-- we need to not gloss over

And so you find-- and my earlier book, "The Substance of Style," you find this phenomenon, which I explore in that book, which is that people aren't content with justfunction. I mean, cloth, obviously, has a lot of functional, important functional properties.But people were making striped cloth 6,200 years ago in Peru using blue dye, using native tannish cotton, brown cotton,

And it's hard to say anything at all about this model, except that it's probably very good as measured according to the objectivefunction you specified. And so the problem is when and if this model goes on to inflict some harm on some person or some group of people,it's typically not the case that this harm was the result of some mal intent of the software engineer or scientist who is sitting behind the scenes

So when we try to find optimal solution, we basically have to enumerate all possibilities, compute all of them-- maybe there's some optimizingfunction associated with it, and you try to find maybe the least path, or biggest profit, or something like that-- but you also have to do an exhaustive search.And that takes a very, very long time.

I know that I have forced all of you to go back in time to ages when there was no electricity.function. There are false constraints that we put upon our thinking.

I don't want to interrupt you by the way.function. I would observe-- it may sound like I'm going off of one here, but bear with me.

sometimes Mickey tries to get water out of the cauldron and Mickey will when Mickey realizes uh that the objectivefunction is not what he wanted attempt to hack me apart with an axe uh the broom like the the score maximizing uhactions in something that's predicting those aspects of the world uh will uh

let's assume way that problem let's assume that we have sort of an airtight suspension detection uh you could try this utilityfunction uh now does anyone have a guess as to whether this works and if notwhere it goes wrong now it'll try to get itself suspended exactly yeah so uh the

the last 10 years uh there is kind of a demarcation is not as sharp as it is in the book that's very much just afunction for the book but there are the peoplewho work in foresight for some version of the common good and there are the

said this is shoddy technology like this isn't very good Edison sort of had a good idea for how to sort of make itfunction but like this sucks this he's not building good devices and my teamcan do this a lot better um and so Westinghouse in his very like boring old

function. And so when you go ahead and do that, again we go back and we take the 19,000 genes, we match them

Function words, not the content, but the function words.

function is to pump out baby pigs like a sausage machine." And we see that these intelligent, sensitive creatures have been reduced to just that, machines.

function of the financial system unless they really, really want to read in and work out how to do it.

function that's a disease modifying it's not fair to characterize it as symptom modifying so these are a series of

function the middle layer the middle layer served is now Vanishing so no

function of gravity. When you eat a meal, that meal sets on the bottom of your stomach and the sensors on the bottom of your stomach in our one gravity environment tell you you're

function properly remember the thamin and the riopan that I was talking about our craving before well when we get carbohydrates we do get some of those

function in focus and depression, it causes depression, but also causes obesity 'cause it drives appetite.

function of the Internet and I actually love, very much, being able to Google anything.

function of a government. Or is it related to this rule of law and there's education and health care of reasonable quality. What is the function of a government? We haven't

function people get less concerned about getting their children into Middlebury and more concerned about getting their

function at all like that it functions much more uh impulsively

function you can only use this much memory you've got to make it specific with a specific outcome that you want on

function how we perceive, feel, uh, cognize, everything about our health, our personality, our

function is really bad I don't know why it just doesn't seem to work and it's very hard to track down things and it

function to anyone ever ever but if you do have documentation it may be that the social conditions that caused it to be

functioning democracy?

functioning to this day. But before twenty nineteen, we all actually trained in that gym where there was practically nothing. It was just a school gym with nothing but mats, a

functional principles at work in the unconscious part of the mind or at least um in in large parts of because Freud

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functionality from an AI assistant on your phone in 2026.

functions that are required to build and sustain a business.

functional capabilities because these are the uncertain things in the

functions. Therefore, the teams are poorly managed.

functions of several Fortune 100 companies right now.

functioning well. Mammal brain is like a light car, so it needs significantly more energy than the lizard brain, and it's active most of the time during the day,

functions factions to say that we're all about culture, we're all about freeing Mandela, you know, the anti

functional, then you need to identify the causes of suffering and eliminate them, decrease and eliminate them.

functions for separate pieces.

functioning. And I love it.

functioning, as anybody knows in any team in the world.

functionally similar to the present