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example Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country throughout

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and you should put systems in place. And there's perhaps no more stressful a situation than when you're confronted with a medical decision to make.

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the outliers and the exceptions draw our attention and lead us into a much greater sense of perhaps what a tree is. We often talk about losing the forests for the trees,

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it's better to get it over with quickly. Sound brutal, but perhaps familiar? Every morning I ask myself, how can I, knowing what I know,

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you may have experienced some of its side effects. Perhaps you got a bit peckish, and you've got the local pizza shop on speed dial?

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and how it impacts you the next day. Perhaps you're not as patient with your loved ones. You might find it hard to concentrate or stay alert,

Can Cannabis Help You Sleep? Here’s the Science | Jen Walsh | TED · TED

Conscious AI might suffer the click of a mouse, perhaps in ways we wouldn't even recognize. And if silicon can be sentient,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Now consciousness, has to be said does remain a bit mysterious, but perhaps one reason for this is that we've been so constrained by our metaphors,

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

we’d be sacrificing our ability to control, to regulate them and perhaps even to turn them off and for no good reason at all. And this is one reason why even AI that merely seems to be conscious

Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious | Anil Seth | TED · TED

Let's be brave enough to imagine and fight for a better world. Perhaps then all of us can make the future bright after all. Thank you.

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I cannot tell you how many really important people have said that listening is perhaps the most, the number one most important skill that you could develop.

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I wanted to know why. Perhaps if I could learn from it, I could understand it, and I could help others work through their next inevitable setback

How to Turn Setbacks into Success | Amy Shoenthal | TED · TED

And yet, Veronica asked me perhaps the most compelling question I've been asked in a long time.

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and the working conditions in your life. Perhaps, for children with asthma, it's what's happening in their home,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

it's what's happening in their home, or perhaps they live close to a freeway with major air pollution that triggers their asthma.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

that triggers their asthma. And perhaps that's what we should mobilize our resources to address, because that third element, that third part of the process,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

to a healthcare system. But finally, and perhaps most importantly, what do we do? What do we do as patients?

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

But there is one factor that most likely outweighs the effects of fresh air and perhaps even physical activity, and that is exposure to natural daylight.

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

And therefore, I would like to encourage all of you, and perhaps especially those who might belong to the 25 percent suffering from sleep problems,

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

But do the dogs know what they're saying? Or perhaps you've heard the story of Clever Hans the horse, and he could do math.

How to Get Inside the "Brain" of AI | Alona Fyshe | TED · TED

of French folklore perhaps it was this life on the margins that led band get up in 1909 to come up

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transitions we avoid we wallow we stall perhaps we like the way things were or are afraid of what might come

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I’m guessing it might be Nemo and his best friend, Dory. Or perhaps it's this. It's the best part of my job.

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it's time to unveil your new self perhaps the best way to mark this third phase of a life transition the new

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of which we may not even be aware. Second, perhaps more importantly, we take the position that the ability to think well

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into the kind of myth I don't quite believe in. And what I want, what perhaps I will spend my life wanting, is for that myth to be true.

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the biggest decisions to make of perhaps any human in history, pretty much. You should know that everyone here will be cheering you on

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which is full-time parenthood. Perhaps Emily, in weighing the excitement of the new job offer

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and a lot of thinking about it. And I think having hope sometimes or often or perhaps always requires being able to envision, you know,

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Now I understand the thought of feeding the code of life into a generative AI is both thrilling, and, perhaps, unsettling. But I came to realize that if this was possible,

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

But AI can also defend and monitor against these threats as well. And so perhaps you feel like me in that you have to choose between advocating for innovation versus safety.

How AI Could Generate New Life-Forms | Eric Nguyen | TED · TED

trying to translate that into virtue. Perhaps you have met one or two of the virtuous on your path. They are only very few,

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And we need to make AI safer by teaching human norms and values. Perhaps we can draw an analogy from "David and Goliath," here, Goliath being the extreme-scale language models,

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED · TED

What just happened? Perhaps on the chin-up, you felt a sense of confidence. Maybe on the chin-down,

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and hauling poles around. And predictably, perhaps, on the fourth day he ended up in the operating room.

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

your friends are long-term adventures, and therefore, perhaps the most significant thing you can do to add more years to your life,

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

Is it something that you really want? Perhaps that person is better suited than you are for that. Does the universe --

How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age | Bevy Smith | TED · TED

But today I want to focus on just one finding -- perhaps the most important discovery to come from this remarkable study. And it's also the one that spoke to me personally,

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

So, let's get the bad news out of the way first. Perhaps the biggest message from this remarkable study is this: don't be born into poverty or into disadvantage,

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

meaning the more likely you were to fall victim to an early disease span and perhaps untimely death. Our findings meant that people's life events

The science of cells that never get old | Elizabeth Blackburn

a flourishing of many different types of systems that are perhaps sharded off those safe architectures that ideally have some mathematical guarantees

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

It's all of us. And this is perhaps the most promising and vital thing of all that even a six-year-old can get a sense for.

What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman | TED · TED

In what other parts of our lives, perhaps that we care more about, are we working hard but not improving much

Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about | TED · TED

you unfortunately have constraints like gravity, how a fabric drapes, perhaps the cost of raw materials. But when you design virtually,

What’s the Point of Digital Fashion? | Karinna Grant | TED · TED

and of discovering extra dimensions of space -- perhaps now you get a sense as to why thousands of physics geeks collectively lost their cool

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

we still find no new particles? Then perhaps we're doing particle physics wrong. (Laughter)

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

(Laughter) Perhaps we need to rethink things. Maybe we need more resources, technology, expertise

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

could eventually guide us to see physics in a completely new way, and to point out that perhaps we're just asking the wrong questions. Which would not be the end of physics,

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

in either of which cases this might be easier. Perhaps I could. Perhaps all the complex imagining I've done

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

Perhaps I could. Perhaps all the complex imagining I've done could have been applied to other topics.

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

More customer loyalty, more revenue, or perhaps a promotion? Tell them how your project will help them attain the goal that they want

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innovators and entrepreneurs throughout time. And I came across perhaps the biggest badass in history, Wolfgang Amadeus I'm-going-to-kick-everybody's-ass Mozart.

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED · TED

I'm sure we can all think of a time when we faced a crossroads. Perhaps the precipice of an uncomfortable conversation when speaking up felt like the right, if not even essential, path.

How to Speak Up — Even When You Don’t Want To | Sarah Crawford-Bohl | TED · TED

Are you organized and self-directed? And perhaps most importantly, how much do you value knowing exactly what you'll earn from week to week?

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Defensive? Insulted, perhaps? Flirting doesn't have the best reputation.

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the less likely we are to have invisible holes in our competence. Perhaps it all boils down to that old proverb: When arguing with a fool,

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There are only so many people in this country at any given time, and we can choose to live where perhaps we would have a lighter impact.

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But what if lifestyle was really about quality of life and about perhaps something that we would all enjoy more, something that would be better than what we have right now?

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

(Laughter) Perhaps AI Cai is that rash, clumsy boy Cai. People often assume that I like fireworks,

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or mathematical proofs, perhaps we don't need to fully understand something as long as the accuracy is high enough for what we need.

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