And then, going back to the first question that you ask me, what's the thing that I measure the most?
回到你问的第一个问题,我看重的衡量标准是什么?
You could say, "May I ask a question?"
你可以说,“我能问你一个问题吗?”
And the obvious question I could start with is, and suppose I ask you, how long does the algorithm implemented by this program take to run?
我开始这个话题的第一个问题是,假设我问你,由这个算法实现的程序大概,要运行多久才能给出答案?
That might be a question you might wanna answer or you might wanna say, is the thing on the left and the thing on the right both true?
这可能是一个,你得到回答的问题,你还可能会问是不是左边的和右边的都是真的?
And actually, a question that might come up, I just explained, the sodium channel, you might say, well, how do potassium channels work then, because I can understand how you can filter something big out, but how do you filter out something small.
实际上,可能大家会问一个问题,我刚解释过,钠离子通道,你可以说,好吧,那么钾离子通道该如何起作用呢,因为我可以理解你是如何把大东西过滤掉的,但是你如何把小东西过滤掉呢?
But if you love soap operas, I asked you a question, that's the answer you gave me.
但你要是喜欢肥皂剧,就是我问你一个问题,这就是你给我的答案。
If you ask a dumb question there is only a dumb answer.
如果你问一个愚蠢的问题,只能得到愚蠢的答案。
For example, in the late 1990s, if you were to ask a question--I'm hypothesizing -how likely is it that the Dow will be over 10,000 by the year 2008?
例如,在90年代末,假如有人问你这样一个问题,道指在2008年底前,突破万点大关的可能性有多大
Andrew. Let me ask you this question, Andrew.
我来问你一个问题,安德鲁。
Now, you can ask the opposite question.
现在,你可以问一个相反的问题
Good. Let me ask you a question.
很好,我来问你一个问题。
And this is very much deliberate on our part so you just don't feel that inevitable angst when it comes to asking what you think is a dumb question and probably isn't, but you don't need to disclose your name.
这在我们的角度上来说是非常深思熟虑的,所以你们不要认为那是必然的麻烦,当问了一个你认为是愚蠢的问题,或者可能不是,但是你不必要,公开你的名字。
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