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This manager can perform the same price test for all the relevant inputs, in order to arrive, quickly and accurately, at the most rational way to make a pencil. He does not need to understand how all the activities of society add up to an overall economy.
How to Make a Pencil
logicmag.io
In Toronto, planners turned to computer vision to help them understand how altering the curb radius at an intersection affected turning speeds and near-miss rates. Based on three days of digital observation before and after the concrete was poured, they found that widening the curb caused near-miss rates to drop by 72 percent in low-risk interactions, and 38 percent and 30 percent in moderate- and high-risk near-misses, respectively. They also found that all vehicles involved in a conflict slowed down an average 5.8 percent.
The Art of Learning by Example
Feature Extraction
Bodies that don’t have a liquid core—the Moon and Mars, for instance—don’t have magnetism.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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