In later stages of a business, if used correctly, financial statements can reduce a complex reality into elegant simplicity, so you can separate noise from what really matters, enabling a large battleship of a company to be turned away from danger.

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Although the artificial neural networks used in the research are much less complex than the human visual system, this simplicity helped the researchers to identify and further understand what they believe is a fundamental principle behind why we see illusion: the statistics of our past visual experiences.

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Labour said it backed more simplicity but claimed ministers were bringing in complex new taxes at the same time.

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Designed by Farshid Moussavi, another talented female architect from London, MOCA Cleveland suggests the simplicity of a cube but is actually more complex, with chamfered edges chiseling a square roof out of a hexagonal base.

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Lots of designers talked about simplicity with their new collections, but there was still plenty of highly complex work on display.

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