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...Toyota plant, says the problem worsened over the years as products and manufacturing inevitably got more sophisticated. Merely upgrading a Toyota, he says, requires 300 man-years of engineering. No single manager can ever understand it. "Figuring out products, markets, customers, designs, systems - what's inherent about anything complex is that it becomes impossible. You can't design it perfectly," he says. What matters, he argues, is swarming problems from every direction to create high-speed, low-cost discovery and learning. And when you extend that open approach to suppliers, the path to lower-cost, better-functioning parts becomes easier...
...court decision was greeted with euphoria by thousands of antigovernment protesters who had blockaded Bangkok's two airports for over a week and had previously besieged the Prime Minister's office complex for months. On Dec. 3 the opposition People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) declared victory and vacated the airports, bringing hope that some 300,000 stranded tourists could leave. But the PAD vows to restart its campaign if the country's next leader is linked with the dissolved government - and, more specifically, with ex - Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra...
...shapes, quantities up to six, and concepts of category, among other things. “He redefined the term birdbrain.” Pepperberg says. “When I began this work in the 70’s, people didn’t expect birds to do any complex cognitive tasks.” Following Alex’s death last September, rather than flying off the handle, Pepperberg swooped in with an idea for a book. While she had published “The Alex Studies,” an academic exploration of the cognitive capacities of grey...
...according to the insurance policy.” Alec J. Kunkel ’12, a self-professed fan of Pinker, attended the seminar with the hope of getting his copy of the professor’s book autographed. “He has an ability to take immensely complex ideas and break them into grasp-able concepts that are comprehensible to everyone,” he said. “He has an unyielding willingness to say where his data leads without being restrained by the political and social consequences,” Kunkel said. Co-chair of HSMBB...
...spend in the neighborhood of $48 billion a year,” McConnell said of the intelligence community, which includes entities like the intelligence-gathering agencies of the military, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “That’s a very complex enterprise to operate—my job is to make sure it’s integrated. McConnell said that the lack of communication among these separate agencies has been a major weakness in American intelligence since well before 2001, adding that “we designed our own system to make...