TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(8)

This URL contains the words "statistics," "gov" and "UK," which are three of people's least favorite words in a URL. 这个网址包含单词“统计”,“gov”和“UK”,这三个是在网址中最不受欢迎的单词。 And the amazing thing about this was that the website came down at quarter to 10 at night, 惊人的是,这个网站在晚上9点45的时候瘫痪了, because people were...

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TED演讲之入门 内向性格的力量(10)

But he also loved his congregation, 但他也很享受宗教集会, and you could feel this love in the sermons that he gave every week for the 62 years that he was a rabbi. 62年来,他每周都会在犹太教布道会上讲道。 He would takes the fruits of each week's reading and he would weave these intricate tapestries of ancient and humanist thought. 他会从每周的阅读中汲取养分,并且他会编...

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TED演讲之入门 学校扼杀创造力(8)

And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, 第二点,学术能力已经成为衡量好学生的主要标准, because the universities designed the system in their image. 这种标准是那些大学自己制定的。 If you think of it, the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance. 只要你思考一下就会发...

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TED演讲之入门 细菌是怎样交流的(7)

We also then went to look at what are these molecules — these were the red triangles on my slides before. 我们同时也研究了这些小分子,这些就是我刚才幻灯上的小红三角形。 This is the Vibrio fischeri molecule. This is the word that it talks with. 这个是费氏弧菌的小分子。也就是它们用以交谈的文字。 So then we started to look at other bacteria, and these are just a smatterin...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(9)

I had a meeting with the president there, who told me about his exit strategy for his country. 我在那与该国的总统会面,总统也向我透露了他为国家制定的生存战略。 He expects that within the next 50 years, the 100,000 people that live there will have to relocate to New Zealand or Australia. 他预期在未来的50年里,万千上万的该国国民将不得不去新西兰或澳大利亚定居。 And that made me...

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TED演讲:我们能在打造人工智能的同时掌握控制权吗?(4)

It's crucial to realize that the rate of progress doesn't matter, because any progress is enough to get us into the end zone. 我们要知道这个进程的速度并不重要,因为任何进程都足够让我们走进死胡同。 We don't need Moore's law to continue. We don't need exponential progress. We just need to keep going. 甚至不需要考虑摩尔定律,也不需要用指数函数来衡量,这一切...

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TED演讲:为什么你应该热爱统计学(1)

Back in 2003, the UK government carried out a survey. 早在2003年,英国政府进行了一项调查。 And it was a survey that measured levels of numeracy in the population. 目的是了解国民的算术能力。 And they were shocked to find out that for every 100 working age adults in the country, 47 of them lacked Level 1 numeracy skills. 结果非常让人吃惊,在英国,每100个正值工作年纪的成人中,4...

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TED演讲:货币的未来(8)

The computer that solves the puzzle publishes its solution to the rest of the network and collects its reward: new bitcoins. 解开了谜题的计算机便把结果发布到互联网上,并获得新的比特币作为奖励。 And in the act of solving this puzzle, 在解开谜题的过程中, these computers are actually helping to secure the Bitcoin blockchain and add to the list of transactions. 这些计算机也在逐...

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TED演讲:如何安全发送色情短信(8)

Jennifer did nothing wrong. All she did was share a nude photo with someone she thought that she could trust. Jennifer没做错什么。她不过将她的裸照分享给了她认为可以信任的人。 And yet our laws tell her that she committed a horrible crime equivalent to child pornography. 可我们的法律告诉她,她犯了和儿童色情一样可怕的罪行。 Our gender norms tell her that by producing this nude ...

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TED演讲:如何安全发送色情短信(3)

According to researchers at the University of New Hampshire 根据新罕布什尔大学的调查研究, seven percent of all child pornography possession arrests are teens, sexting consensually with other teens. 因儿童色情被捕的人群中,有百分之七都是青少年,而他们都是两厢情愿的发送色情短信。 Child pornography is a serious crime, but it's just not the same thing as teen sexting. 儿童...

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TED演讲:被遗忘的美国工人阶级(4)

So if you think about what do you do when you grow up in that world, you can respond in a couple of ways. 想象一下,成长在那样的环境中你该怎么办,可能应对方法有很多种。 One, you can say, "I'm not going to work hard, because no matter how hard I work, it's not going to matter." 第一种,你可以说,“我才不会努力奋斗,因为无论怎样努力,结果都一样。” Another thin...

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TED演讲之入门 用前所未有的好方法诠释数字统计(1)

About 10 years ago, I took on the task to teach global development to Swedish undergraduate students. 大约在十年前,我担当起给瑞典大学生讲授全球发展的任务。 That was after having spent about 20 years together with African institutions studying hunger in Africa, 之前的20年,我一直在非洲研究饥饿问题, so I was sort of expected to know a little about the world. 所以大家以为我对...

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TED演讲:我们能在打造人工智能的同时掌握控制权吗?(1)

I'm going to talk about a failure of intuition that many of us suffer from. 我想谈论一种我们很多人都经历过的来自于直觉上的失误。 It's really a failure to detect a certain kind of danger. 它让人们无法察觉到一种特定危险的存在。 I'm going to describe a scenario that I think is both terrifying and likely to occur, and that's not a good combination, as it turns ou...

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TED演讲:如何安全发送色情短信(7)

These individual changes can really help us protect each other's privacy, but we need technology companies on board as well. 这些个人行为的改变可以帮助我们保护彼此的隐私,但我们同样需要科技公司的帮忙。 These companies have very little incentive to help protect our privacy 科技公司几乎没有动机来保护我们的隐私, because their business models depend on us sharing everything...

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TED演讲之入门 揭露海底惊奇(4)

So, we're learning lots new from the shallow water. 我们从浅海中学到了很多新东西。 Still exploring the deep, but learning lots from the shallow water. 继续来探索下深海领域,同时从浅海中学到很多新东西。 There's a good reason why: the shallow water's full of predators — here's a barracuda 这有个原因来解释:在浅海里,到处都是捕猎者。这是条梭鱼。 and if you...

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TED演讲之入门 我们需要谈谈不公(14)

So you heard and saw an obvious desire by this audience, this community, to help you on your way and to do something on this issue. 你应该听到看到这些听众,这个群体,想帮你、想做贡献的意愿了。 Other than writing a check, what could we do? 除了给你写支票,我们还能做什么? Well there are opportunities all around us. If you live in the state of California, for example, there...

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TED演讲:如何培养出成功的小孩(1)

You know, I didn't set out to be a parenting expert. 我从没想过做一个育儿专家。 In fact, I'm not very interested in parenting, per Se. 事实上,我本身对育儿也没什么兴趣。 It's just that there's a certain style of parenting these days that is kind of messing up kids, 只是因为当今有一种育儿方式会把孩子搞得一团糟, impeding their chances to develop into theirselv...

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TED演讲:被遗忘的美国工人阶级(6)

And we think of these things as especially rare, 我们可能会认为这只是个别现象, but a study by the Wisconsin Children's Trust Fund found that 40 percent of low-income kids face multiple instances of childhood trauma, 但威斯康辛儿童信托基金的研究表明,低收入家庭的孩子遭受多种童年创伤的几率为40%, compared to only 29 percent for upper-income kids. And think about what that...

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TED演讲之现在或永不 我为什么划船横渡太平洋(4)

And the oars kind of became a symbol of just in how many ways I went beyond what I thought were my limits. 这些桨也变成了我可以用多种方式来突破我自认为是极限的标志。 I suffered from tendinitis on my shoulders and saltwater sores on my bottom. 肩部的腱鞘炎让我十分痛苦,海水也杀的臀部非常疼。 I really struggled psychologically, totally overwhelmed by the scale of the challenge...

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TED演讲之入门 肢体语言塑造你自己(6)

So the second question really was, you know, so we know that our minds change our bodies, 第二个问题就是,我们知道心理状态会影响我们的身体, but is it also true that our bodies change our minds? 那身体是否能影响心理呢? And when I say minds, in the case of the powerful, what am I talking about? 这里所说的心理充满力量,究竟指的是什么? So I'm talking about thoughts and fe...

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