In the end, it will be the remarkable complementarity of orchids and dandelions that we will want to sustain and remember, the usefulness and often love of the one for the other, the symmetry and mutuality of their symphonic roles in human discourse and history, and their co-evolution as distinctive but equally cogent solutions to the deep dilemmas life calls forth.
The second core feature is the digital forgetting keeps reminding us of the temporal nature of information, that it is not timeless, but linked to specific context, and thus loses its usefulness as time progresses. And that it offers us a meaningful mechanism to link temporal dimension with information we commit to digital storage. A revival of digital forgetting, I believe, if used in combination with some of the other approaches, could significantly strengthen the effectiveness of our overall societal
and you get the right equation to motion and you don't have to be a good physicist. - But for all its usefulness , the potential wasn't enough to help Lagrange solve the three-body problem. In 1887, mathematician Heinrich Bruns finally proved that the three-body problem is unsolvable.
You know, Hunter S. Thompson has this line, that the only way to find out where the edge, where the line is, is by crossing it. the real world usefulness of models.
uh you're too constrained, right? Because the the usefulness of constraints is it causes you to think in in different ways and to explore productively. That said, I don't think just because something's an impediment that it's
And it's why this work is so rewarding because it gives me a feeling of usefulness and that I'm doing something productive. It's really common for people with Parkinson's to talk about how difficult it is in the morning since they have gone all night without medication.
But there's also a bottom line to be considered as well. What about the usefulness as a tool to bring science literacy to a general public through entertainment? Oh, well, then you're talking "Hollyweird Science".
Alton Brown: I, like Good Eats, I never paid attention to fans. will ultimately destroy the usefulness of the internet, it's that.
Now, every good book needs a villain. And the villain of our piece is Ronald Fisher. Despite Bayes' usefulness , Ronald Fisher started attacking Bayes in the 1920s and '30s and theoretician's attitudes about Bayes changed from tepid toleration to outright hostility.
And I think he should not be, because the argument he makes is timeless. It's the argument about the usefulness of useless knowledge. He spends a lot of time arguing, for instance, about electromagnetism, Faraday and Maxwell.
we define it as-- well, I guess science defines it as-- We should have defined creativity first. Science defines it as novelty and usefulness . So we kind of define it broadly as just bringing something new into the world, whether that's a new idea or just a new way
But the vodka drinkers needed only 11.5 seconds. And the Chinese focus much more the usefulness of it.
Yeah, I don't think growing up, I would've ever thought that the skill set of here's a giant mass of relatively unstructured information. How do I sort it by usefulness , and how do I learn to process it and weed out what's irrelevant? I would never lump that in as one of the marksmanship fundamentals.
You can't wake up tomorrow and have your heart down in your left hip, right? But that model is running out of its usefulness .
But it's not really the central thing about True Names. I think the central thing about True Names is the usefulness of magical metaphors in programming. And I had enough exposure to that at that time that it just made everything very, very easy to do.
lives, then all that usefulness is lost.
And it's ultimately a joke about the narrowness of our ideas of usefulness that we might even think we know what is useful or what is productive.
but we didn't go there. Flexner wrote his essay, "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," which really is a catching title. He worked on it for many years-- in fact, almost two decades.
So the world was in crisis, but in some sense, it's still remarkable that he was writing about the use of basic research, the usefulness of basic research, in that time. And in this book, actually, I started the book by explaining that '39 was special too because it was actually the year when the World Fair came
I'm wondering if you could speak a little bit about how the usefulness of paradox and now it shows up in our lives.
see if the difference might tell you anything about the ability or the usefulness of different text mining tools and techniques.
presenter: So one thing is in this book you talk about the usefulness of when addressing a problem instead of addressing it from what you called the level of the problem you advocate
And I think that unfortunately, math gets pushed too much for its usefulness , where "useful" is meant in a very utilitarian way.
And this giving prominence to objects and apparently kind of random assemblage is one major way in flash's usefulness
By the 1960s, Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay where he argued that this enormous usefulness of math in the natural science is really something
In a season when big data rules, writing stands for the usefulness of intuition, for the proposition that things needn't always be scatter plottable to be true.
which we see very much of how, how we find this balance essentially between the usefulness for me and the, and the, at least the perception of control about, about my, about what I do.
You know, Hunter S. Thompson has this line, that the only way to find out where the edge, where the line is, is by crossing it. And then it feels like benchmarks are less and less capable of capturing the intelligence of models, the effectiveness of models, the usefulness ,
When things exist in groups, if they're readily available, then you really value them in terms of their usefulness .
And eventually through this generous, shaded, and useless environment might come a weary traveler from the land of usefulness , a carpenter who
But because of hygiene and medical research, it actually made a tremendous impact on the lives of everyone. And in fact, there is another thing, which that will be the next book, would be about the uselessness of the usefulness of useless knowledge, because it's like a third order of facts and that this very practical thing gives rise again to basic research.
The first one, in your excellent world order book, you seem to portray nationalism as an invented concept, which outlived its usefulness . Would you agree with this assessment?
your email compulsively. But over doing anything, over doing any normal everyday activity beyond its usefulness for some other purposes.
with, they've all found a way to merge that question of passion and skill with the question of usefulness .
Abraham Flexner who really, the Institute was his idea and it was based on the concept of the usefulness of useless knowledge, that if you just let people work on whatever they
MALE AUDIENCE MEMBER #4: I was just wondering if the research you've done affects your opinion of culture, which is maybe peer pressure on a larger scale and maybe the usefulness , or
The military robots on the other side, on the other hand, are being designed with cost-effectiveness and actual usefulness in mind. So that's why you take a company like IRobots down in Boston,