In a country the size of western Europe, we can't be everywhere at the same time, and the hotline allows them to call in no matter where they are and to ask usthe information that we can provide -- even if we're not necessarily able to provide the services directly."

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If I want to try and decide how to tackle a problem in an iterative matter, here the steps I'm going to go through. First thing I'm going to do, is I'm going to choose a variable that's going to count.

但是这就是我对它的观点,如果我试着去以迭代的方式,解决一个问题的话,下面是我应该采取的步骤,第一件要做的事情。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

If there's something distinct about it" Southern art "It's subject matter and also inner heritage.

如果说它有什么独特的地方",它指南方艺术,"便是其主题和精神传承

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

But beyond that, if you were confined to just stocks and bonds, it would be a matter of taste where along this frontier you would be.

进一步，若仅限于投资股票和债券的组合，选择哪个组合,取决于个人的兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

People can be disgusting and if people are seen as disgusting they matter less.

人会变得令人反感,如果我们对他人感到反感，他们的重要性就降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And if so, when? And does it matter?

如果是真的，是什么时候？，它有什么意义？

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

If it doesn't matter, if I experience this ups and downs.

如果这些都无关紧要，总要经历高低潮。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The fact that it was blue or red is not relevant, and if I threw a gorilla at him it doesn't matter what the color of the gorilla is, what mood it is in.

物体是蓝色还是红色都没有关系,如果我扔给他一只大猩猩,它的颜色和情绪都是不重要的

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Good; so what Clara Elise is saying--it's an important idea-- is this and tell me if I'm paraphrasing you incorrectly is no matter what the other person does, no matter what the pair does, she obtains a higher payoff by choosing Alpha.

克莱拉?埃莉斯得意思是,要是我转达的不对请提示我,不管别人怎么选,不管她对手选了什么,她选α总会得到最优的成绩

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Now,if you're like Parfit,and for that matter like me then you're going to say,of course I care I want it to be the case that I'm one of the people who's already had the operation I don't want to be one of the people who hasn't yet had the operation ? You might say,how can that make any sense?

如果你们同意帕非特，那也会同意我,你就会说，我当然在意,我希望的情况是,我是已经做完手术的人,我不想是那种,还没做手术的人,你可能会说，这有什么意义？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

> You said you'd make a space between if and the parenthesis; does that actually matter?

>，你说你在if和括号之间用了个空格;,那有什么影响吗？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The answer to the question-- The question was, "Your baby's going to coo and 'ga ga, goo goo,' does it matter if you coo and 'ga ga, goo goo' back?"

这个问题是,"你的婴儿一直咕咕咯咯地说婴儿语,你也那样回应很重要吗"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

If so, then it would show that that extra overlap in genes doesn't really matter And so, it would suggest a low role of heredity Are adopted children highly similar to ? their brothers and sisters?

如果是这样，那就表明另外的的基因重叠,是没什么影响的,也就是说遗传的影响也很小,收养的儿童,和他们的兄弟姐妹会很相似吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And what would I have to do for those groups to matter such that, for instance, if I separate you in one group and you're in another group and I give you a hundred dollars will you give the money more to him or to him, will you give it more to your own group or to another group?

我要用什么办法让这些群体,对立到…举个例子，我把你们分到这个群体，把你们分到另一个,我给你们一百美元,你们会把钱给他还是给他？,你们会把钱给自己群体的，还是另一个群体的？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

I was just finding very tunnel vision-like, the smallest elements at that moment in time which means I don't know anything about the other elements other than they are not the smallest and so no matter what with Selection Sort I had to repeat this again and again and again and if you do out the math it's roughly N squared steps in the worst case as well.

我只有一个狭窄的视野，只知道某时刻的最小元素,就意味着我并不知道其他元素的任何情况,只知道它们不是最小的,所以不管怎样，在选择排序中,我就得一遍一遍地重复选择过程,在最坏情况下,大概需要N的平方次比较。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选