What made the contents of a book or the «revelations»
of human being more important to us than humanity itself.
As for her cat, Galahad made an appearance, regally ignored everyone under four feet until he clued in that this variety
of humans was more likely to drop food on the floor, or sneak him handouts.
Not exact matches
Sounding
more authoritative means finding that deeper register in your voice and avoiding the
human tic to «upspeak» at the end
of sentences when you
're unsure
of something.
(For the record, Agrafioti demurs about the potential automation
of those positions, rightly noting that there
is no industry consensus on whether
AI can ever truly become as or
more powerful than the
human brain.)
With the increasing complexity
of organizational needs,
more companies will
be taking advantage
of opportunities to outsource
human resources functions to specialists who have the capabilities to meet their needs.
Decades
of scientific investigation across multiple lines
of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth:
Human - caused global warming and climate change
is real, and it
's briskly accelerating as we dump
more carbon into the atmosphere.
Last year, a machine vision program developed by Stanford researchers
was able to distinguish between cancerous and non-cancerous moles with
more than 90 percent accuracy, beating out its
human dermatologist counterparts — possibly a sign
of what
's to come in the field
of AI.
Facebook controls what users see in two fundamental ways: Its news - feed filtering algorithm decides how to rank various kinds
of content to make the feed
more appealing, and a team
of human beings flags and / or removes posts when they appear to
be offensive or disturbing.
Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children
are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding
of human nature
more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point
is that «one
of the things which makes
humans special as a species
is that we don't limit care to our own children.
For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman
of cloud - based
human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora
of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or
more, known as unicorns,
are doing to markets and marketplaces.
If your business model revolves
more around river tours and large bodies
of water, the mighty kraken, complete with lots
of morbid jokes about your service to the creature, ferrying tourists to feed its unending hunger for
human flesh, may do a better job
of making your employees feel like they
are part
of something greater.
A new study says a fleet
of self - driving cars would
be far
more efficient than a bunch
of error - prone
humans.
Paul Belliveau, a veteran HR manager with
more than 30 years
of experience, agrees there
is tremendous benefit to outsourcing the administrative side
of HR, but cautions that the
human side should not
be overlooked.
As Cialdini writes, «A well - known principle
of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will
be more successful if we provide a reason.
It will
be a war
more serious in terms
of human suffering than anything we've seen since 1953,» Mattis said, also noting the danger to the heavily - populated South Korean capital
of Seoul: «It will involve the massive shelling
of an ally's capital, which
is one
of the most densely packed cities on earth.»
Canadians
are also
more likely to take vacations within the country, as the exchange rate will make travel to typical winter holiday spots
more expensive, says economist Roslyn Kunin
of Roslyn Kunin and Associates, an economics, business and
human resources consulting firm.
Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR,
is the flagship for the SpaceX vision
of creating a permanent, self - sustaining
human presence on Mars — and yes, the name connotes
more than just «Falcon» to those inside SpaceX.
«Our idea
was: Could we have a computing platform that
's more internal, that melds
human and machine in some ways and that feels like an internal extension
of our own cognition,» says Arnav Kapur, who led the system
's development.
Missing from Melania Trump's address
were specific anecdotes about her relationship with the candidate, the kind that could display the personal,
more human side
of the presumptive Republican nominee, who has
been criticized for his harsh rhetoric.
And when you realize the diversity
of exceptional
human beings out there and opportunities and business deals and everything, you
're going to realize there
are a lot
more options than you
're giving credit to.»
In many ways, the move has
been almost inevitable with the cost
of broadband Internet decreasing, the creation
of more devices with Wi - Fi capabilities and the penetration
of smart devices further into the
human experience.
«Their basic thought
is robotics and A.I.
are going to weave their way into
more and
more skills that used to
be human skills,» says Lee Rainie, Pew's director
of internet, science, and technology research.
An employee who spends 250 days a year with his employer, who spends
more time at the office than with his or her own children on any week day,
is investing most
of their
human experience with that employer.
It
's a fact I became
more aware
of a few months ago while interviewing vampire author Anne Rice for my upcoming book
Humans 3.0.
Let these 20 quotes from Dr. Wayne Dyer motivate you to become
more as a
human being, tap into your limitless potential and take time out
of your busy day to remember a man that transformed millions
of lives in such a profound and powerful way.
It
's a
more human conversation, even if it
's going out to thousands
of people.
Asked if that points toward hazard for
humans, he said phone providers
are «moving
more and
more toward lower power exposures to
humans» as new generations
of mobile service come become available.
The
more easily we roll with the punches and learn to tolerate the quirks
of other
human beings and the unpredictable ebb and flow
of the cycles
of success, the less stress we experience and the
more resilient we become.
«The way I interpret it
is that the manager's coming across as
more human,» James Pennebaker, a psychology professor at the University
of Texas at Austin, told the WSJ's Matthew Kassel.
If you consider the world
's current and imagined robots, it
's hard to imagine them not benefiting from Cyc - endowed abilities that grant them a
more human - like understanding
of the world.
Let your guard down,
be human and
be real and you will stop beating yourself up, and those around you will
be more inclined to connect with you at a deeper level, which leads to all kinds
of wonderful things.
I just wish that
more leaders took interest in the
humans in our workplaces and marketplaces and helped everyone
be accountable to the expectation
of doing
more in operationalizing the power
of the individual defining the business at all levels
of business.
Through space exploration, most
of what we do
is look back at ourselves, and going to Mars will reveal
more about what it means to
be an earthling and a
human.»
One thing to watch out for
is that as we
humans start to disinfect
more and
more of our environment, our body's natural capacity to fight pathogens appears to
be declining.
For midsize businesses (those with
more than 50 employees and less than 1,000) getting their arms around their total cost
of ownership (TCO) in
human resources — what they
are actually spending on employees and the cost
of managing them — can
be easily overlooked.
As NASA continues to push the boundaries
of human space exploration — it hopes to reach Mars in the 2030s — it needs to develop even
more advanced suits to
be worn both inside and outside
of spacecraft.
Being experienced in multiple areas
of the
human experience makes for a
more powerful existence.
Enter the consumerization
of IT, and B2B technology marketers
are more than ever faced with the fact that, at the end
of the day, they
're still talking and selling to actual
human beings.
The looming question around Valeant
is how many
more promising drug developers it can acquire, but the company believes there
are plenty
of opportunities owing to the
human body's endless capacity for developing illnesses, ailments, maladies, and generally decaying, making life appear a cruel joke.
Google
is relying
more than ever on
human signals in the form
of shares and mentions on social media to help vet sites.
If there
's something insane about a CEO who thinks his company
's mission
is more important than any accomplishment in all
of human history — indeed, in all
of fish history — there
's also something irresistible.
«The parts
of medical care to do
more with interacting with the patients, making them comfortable, and communicating clearly with them
are going to turn out to
be the things that only
humans can do well.
But the ban may actually backfire, said
Human Rights Watch, which warned it could «increase abuses
of workers who
are forced to resort to unsafe and unregulated channels to enter the country» and thus become
more vulnerable to trafficking and other dangers.
The most prescribed types
of insulin
are called analogues, which
are slight variations
of human insulin that aim to help diabetics» bodies function
more closely to how they would if they
were able to produce the insulin themselves.
Coral reefs
are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because
of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them
more acidic.
«I think there
are implications in a narrow area such as judicial decision - making, as well as in a
more general area
of «understanding and explaining
human behavior,»» says Mocan.
Of course, having
more information on a client
is a good thing, but it doesn't address the fact that
human advisors
are still
more expensive than most online services.
The theory
of the Hedonic Treadmill applies and when the negative feelings came forth, just as the theory suggests, it
was felt times two because, as
humans, we always feel loss
more than we feel gain.
Turkle
is the author
of «Alone Together: Why We Expect
More from Technology and Less from Each Other» and «Reclaiming Conversation: The Power
of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on
human relationships to technology.
This emotional response to political shocks and risks
is typical
of investor (or,
more broadly,
human) behavior.