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...those three elements together - social networks, live searching and link-sharing - and you have a cocktail that poses what may amount to the most interesting alternative to Google's near monopoly in searching. At its heart, Google's system is built around the slow, anonymous accumulation of authority: pages rise to the top of Google's search results according to, in part, how many links point to them, which tends to favor older pages that have had time to build an audience. That's a fantastic solution for finding high-quality needles in the immense, spam-plagued haystack that...
...exposure to tobacco stocks. "Sun Life's investments in renewable-energy projects are over $1.2 billion. We also invested about $1 billion in the last three years to help build or renovate about 20 hospitals and long-term-care facilities," Leduc added. "Together, these two categories alone amount to nearly 500 times the size of tobacco stocks...
...says. “Most of the outcomes aren’t forecastable, so uncertainty is the biggest permeator here.”And a “fundamental uncertainty principle,” according to economics professor Jeremy C. Stein, means that the best model fed an infinite amount of data would still fail to predict securities prices perfectly. Relying heavily on this dataset and acting according to the outputs of the models would change economic parameters so that the original assumptions are no longer valid.“Unlike in the physical sciences, where with enough data...
...when taking into account the number of students who would already be living in the Houses in the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years, could not feasibly take on the burden of any more students. Could the school not even accept 12 transfer students per year? That would amount to a grand total of one additional resident of each House...
...anything of the like but simply relayed to us academic-related information that we needed to know. The rest of the week consisted of optional social events and meals. In turn, this set-up placed very little responsibility on Harvard’s administrative resources, adding only a minimal amount of work to their Freshman Week load...