Sentences with phrase «time at the human»

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Tests show that the human brain can only concentrate on something for so long at a time.

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

The plan entails getting the first humans on the planet in 2023, then ferrying 100 people at a time in reusable rockets and running the flights with regular frequency.

Uber at first claimed the human driver had been in control when that happened, but reporters at The New York Times obtained internal documents showing that the car failed to recognize the light.

The striking example I focused on then was the cancer drug Avastin, developed by Genentech (now Roche)-- which, at the time, had been studied in at least 400 completed human clinical trials for various cancers.

«And you wonder where he gets all of the time and energy and discipline to do it because human nature says that after you've been good at something for a very long time, you typically either get distracted or your intensity or focus wanes.

«We believe every individual has a basic human right to access actionable healthcare information when they need it the most — at a time when they have an opportunity to change outcomes and live better lives.

On human time scales, that's a long time,» Duncan Brown, an astronomer at Syracuse University who's a member of the LIGO research collaboration, previously told Business Insider.

«We wanted to see if workers would use these devices over a long period of time, and we found the design of the device is critically important,» says Lucas Carr, assistant professor of health and human physiology at the University of Iowa.

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.

«At one time, touch screen was a significant move forward,» Fenwick adds, «but actually getting that conversational interaction is going to be the next big stride forward in terms of human - machine interface.»

I wasn't there at the time, but Kiva has always offered direct funding transfers to other human beings, period.

In order to reduce human - shark interactions while protecting sharks at the same time, researchers are using a variety of scientific experiments and common - sense strategies.

«Oftentimes the company will just have an answering machine in human resources with a dedicated phone number, but 90 percent of the time it's ineffective and employees don't use it,» says George Ramos, a managing partner and senior executive investigator at Diversified Risk Management (DRM), a Downey, California - based firm that handles corporate security and investigations.

«One Strange Rock» illustrates the idea that Earth has several frontiers humans have yet to conquer, and functions as a love letter of sorts to the planet at a time when humans have their sights set on redder pastures.

«Any time you look at any kind of real life piece of text or utterance that one human wrote or said to another human, it's filled with analogies, modal logic, belief, expectation, fear, nested modals, lots of variables and quantifiers,» Lenat said.

«Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake... Humans are underrated,» Musk tweeted at the time.

In 2011, a Google self - driving car slammed into another vehicle; Google later claimed a human was driving at the time.

Context — e.g., who said what and why, when they said it, who they know, how often they engage in conversation — is difficult even for humans at times.

He formerly served as product philosopher at Google, and he's the co-founder of the Center for Human Technology (and the Time Well Spent movement).

Its mission is «to inspire and nurture the human spirit - one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time» — a lofty goal that has helped the coffee chain build a reputation that allows the company to charge $ 4 for a latte.

The ride - hailing app previously argued that it didn't need the $ 150 permit since humans were present in its autonomous Volvo XC90 SUVs at all times.

Asked about the worst career advice she ever received, Ahrendts tells of the time she was working at a big corporation and a human resources manager told her that she needed to make changes — like not talking so emotionally with her hands — if she wanted to be considered «CEO material.»

The problem, according to the post by Melissa Dahl, is that our instincts on how to best utilize our time off are often at odds with the psychology of what actually refreshes the human brain.

Entrepreneurship requires many skills, from financial planning to human resource management, and it's at times both intimidating and frustrating.

On the afternoon of Monday, January 31, human - resources manager Brown sat anxiously by his phone, waiting for a call from Stack, who was negotiating with Harvester at his lawyer's office in downtown Springfield.Since SRC did not want to assume Harvester's liabilities to employees for sick pay and vacation time, everyone in the plant had to be terminated as soon as the buyout was completed.

The company has moved from research on rats to the cusp of human trials in less than five years at a cost of less than $ 5 million, a process that can often take twice that long and cost many times more.

After all, Musk explained, he spends at least 90 % of his time on either the electric car company or SpaceX; 3 % to 5 % on Neuralink, a venture aiming to create interfaces between the human brain and machine - learning technology; 2 % on his new tunneling project called the Boring Company; and the remainder on OpenAI, a non-profit dedicated to artificial intelligence research.

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

At best, today's artificial hearts are used to buy patients time as they wait for a human heart transplant.

That means humans need to be involved (at least for the time being).

In the 1950s, cognitive psychologist George Miller put forward the idea that humans can only «hold» seven things (plus or minus two) in their short - term memory (STM) at one time.

As Liz Ryan, founder and CEO of consulting firm The Human Workplace, writes in a post on LinkedIn, «How are you ever going to increase your earnings if every time you change jobs, you get a tiny raise over what they paid you at the last place?»

The Department of Health and Human Services launched an internal review of his flights, and Price, at the time, said he welcomed the review.

Bruce Elliott, manager of compensation and benefits at the Society for Human Resource Management, says the main trends pertain to worker education and family - leave time.

Centaurs, a term for human - machine pairings taken from the mythological creature that was half - human - half - horse, have already proven more effective than humans or computers at chess (at least when given enough time, at least for now).

Though they now deride the Monster.com competition as «a human auction,» at the time «they were really thrown off balance,» recalls Thomas Eisenmann, one of James's Harvard Business School professors.

And, while artificial intelligence will be a part of that legacy, he noted during a discussion with Alan Murray, president of Fortune and chief content officer of Time Inc, that, at the end of the day, we need to «make sure that machine learning is improving human lives.»

At the same time as CJNG's pseudo-insurgency and violence between self - defense groups, the UN Human Rights Council has found that the drug war's disruptions to Mexican society have deepened a culture of lawlessness and impunity.

«The hack is: «I should be able to know the precise time of day at any moment without a single human noticing.»

By drastically decreasing the time taken to complete transactions — in some cases from days to minutes — the collaboration between software robots and humans at Telefonica has been credited with a significant decrease in call - center queries and improved customer satisfaction.

The vehicle was in autonomous mode at the time of the collision, with a human test driver behind the wheel.

What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.

When I used to do a lot of recruiting we used to call it «hanging yourself» because people who talk for long periods of time without seeking feedback are generally not self - aware or good at human interaction.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Additionally, Lee, who was the global diversity and inclusion officer at financial services firm Marsh, will not be reporting directly to Khosrowshahi and Harford; she will report to Uber's chief human resources officer, Liane Hornsey, for the time being.

Legit, practical info — in human speak — from a Certified Financial Planner, so you don't get eff'd at tax time.

«But between now and then, we're looking at a time when some vehicles will be autonomous and some will be human driven.

-- Human rights observers were denied access at least five times that year to Kandahar facilities run by the notorious National Directorate of Security

This was a completely novel idea at the time, because I had originally thought I would pursue either a post-MBA rotational program or a human capital consulting job following school.