Setting aside the larger question of whether imposing national education standards is a legitimate function of a limited federal government, let's turn to the specific question of whether or not national standards will lead to education reforms.

CNN: Competition, Not Standards

If we accept Mr. Taleb's premise about power-law ascendancy, we are left with a troubling question: How do you function in a world where accurate prediction is rarely possible, where history isn't a reliable guide to the future and where the most important events cannot be anticipated?

WSJ: Shattering the Bell Curve

But the deeper question is how much does the abuse of the Like function undermine their value, and by extension the value of the search results based on them?

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This allows a quantum computer to perform a single mathematical function on many numbers at once, answering many different versions of one question at the same time.

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Going beyond the question of where in the organization to put data scientists, others make similar recommendations regarding the entire IT function, assuming that it will become less and less relevant.

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