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"Duncan while he was under suspicion of having Ebola. They got splashed with his body fluids, but they had not been wearing standard Tyvek biohazard suits, HEPA masks, or shoe coverings, though they had put on cotton surgical masks, gowns, gloves, and..."
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"Pundits often refer to Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, and others as platforms for the “sharing economy.” It’s a nice notion—that peers create and share in value. But these businesses have little to do with sharing. In fact, they are successful preci..."
"Not long after he began this work, Kasrils received a message that Winnie Mandela wished to see him. A rendezvous point was arranged outside Baragwanath Hospital on a busy thoroughfare where cars and pedestrians streamed into Soweto. He was among the..."
"attempt to secure power for their heirs. Even in democratic systems where succession is determined by vote, we have by no means left dynastic ambition behind; it seems, if anything, to be intensifying in contemporary politics. Besides, who can the pe..."
"His lack of awe probably also derived from the overall caliber of the building’s occupants. With most active-service military officers now in France, the General Staff had been filled out with men brought up from the reserves or mustered out of retir..."
"For what he does not know—what no one can possibly know, including the patient himself—is that if this sixteen-year-old lying stricken at Kenilworth lives, he will grow up to be someone very special. He will be the king regarded by most generations a..."
"World War II was a conflict that shattered the lines of morality and the traditional divides in warfare between civilians and combatants; as James D. Hornfischer, one of the premier modern scholars of the conflict, wrote, “The question of morality in..."
"Tight coupling is sneaky and may only be revealed during an incident; systems often inadvertently become more tightly coupled as changes are made and we excise perceived “excess.” We can use chaos experiments to expose coupling proactively and refine..."
"twenty-three pairs of chromosomes; one set each from your mother and father. These chromosomes package your genes—the long-form instructions, written in the language of DNA, for making you. A cooking metaphor is incomplete but instructive: You can th..."
"If I want to change this field in a non-accurately-compatible way, how do I do it without it becoming some projects I have to hire five people to go and execute on because we don't know who consumes the data and how we're going to notify them, ..."
"Data destruction is straightforward in a cloud data warehouse. SQL semantics allow deletion of rows conforming to a where clause. Data destruction was more challenging in data lakes, where write-once, read-many was the default storage pattern. Tools ..."
"In the AI-native university, professors become **architects of learning**, curating data, tuning models, and teaching students how to interrogate machine reasoning"
"When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go—carving you a path. “The Things which hurt,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, “instruct.”"
"Just like its much-hailed predecessors, the MAX involved thousands of people spread across offices at Boeing and suppliers around the world, making tens of thousands of individual decisions. Boeing had computer software called DOORS that was supposed..."
"But tuberculosis has long been known for sickening and killing those between twenty and forty-five, during the one period of life when you were supposed to be relatively insulated from illness and death. While TB is also common among children and eld..."