doesn't it make sense that perhaps we should try to save them? I think it does. And I want to tell you about a project to save plants. And the way that you save plants is by storing seeds. Because seeds, in all their diverse glory, are plants' futures. All the gene...
Learning is just the first string of Hinton’s argument. The second is communicating. “If you or I learn something and want to transfer that knowledge to someone else, we can’t just send them a copy,” he says. “But I can have 10,000 neural networks, each having their own experien...
Am I suggesting that we should all be able to have whatever we want, and that the earth’s systems can somehow support this? No, of course not. (Though it would be a lot more likely if the vast majority of the world’s wealth wasn’t hyper-concentrated in the hands of very few me...
Why Should Policymakers Care About GDP? Explain why a multinational corporation might invest funds in a financial market outside of its own country. Why do you think that the CEO and Chairman of General Motors focused on the economic situation in Great Britain when making the decisio...
We should engage in empirical investigations of the behavioral assumptions of our theories to a greater extent. As argued by Tsang (2006) and Verbeke and Greidanus (2009), commitment failures (or the absence thereof) are used foundationally all too often, but are rarely tested empirically. Onl...
Why are international treaties important to conducting international business? Why does international trade occur? Explain why culture should play a role in developing a corporate strategy. Explain why quality control has become a major focus of firms in the last 20 years. Why does the United S...
So we’re talking about an invasion of peoples from a marginal, underdeveloped region of the world to one of the most urbanized, culturally sophisticated zones on the planet. That accounts for the sense of trauma from the Muslim side. How could people from the edge of the known world invade...
If the question is, should we baptize infants? Both sides are looking at scripture and coming to different conclusions. It’s not that one side is following the Bible, the other side says, who cares about the Bible? It’s that we’re reading the Bible differently. And so if the ...
“Hey guys! You know what we should do? Not know what the f*#$ is going on!!!” What a stupid thing to do. And no, I’m not talking about the Hongxi Emperor anymore. I’m talking aboutyou. Whenever you close yourself off to expansive multicultural experiences, you are burning down...
The world is full of rich culture, diversity and experiences unique to each individual. When determining the validity of historic accounts we must factor in that particular historian’s point of view, which should be characterized by ethnicity, idealogy, theoretical or methodological preference. With...