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Foreign Policy (March 11)

2024/ 03/ 13 by jd in Global News

Some question China’s 5.2% GDP growth figure for the final quarter of 2023, but even assuming “the figures are accurate, the wider trends of the Chinese economy suggest a worrying state of affairs.” China’s real GDP figure exceeded its nominal figure. This “indicates that Beijing’s gross value of output in real terms was amplified thanks to negative inflation…. If not for deflation, China’s real GDP growth in 2023 would have been even lower and would have certainly missed the national target of 5 percent.”

 

WARC (August 7)

2020/ 08/ 09 by jd in Global News

“Share of search provides a useful metric that any marketer can use as a surprisingly accurate proxy for the important, but often expensive, calculation of a brand’s market share.”

 

1843 (November Issue)

2019/ 11/ 17 by jd in Global News

“The ocean floor is the Earth’s last great uncharted region.” Oceans cover “nearly three-quarters of the Earth’s surface yet more than 80% of it remains unexplored. Radar doesn’t penetrate deep water, so accurate depth soundings must be made by ships with high-resolution sonar. It’s slow, boring work. The maps we do have are at best an approximation. New discoveries are common…. We have more accurate maps of Mars than we do of two-thirds of our own planet.”

 

Wall Street Journal (August 11)

2018/ 08/ 14 by jd in Global News

Though “artificial intelligence has the potential to reinvent the world, from how businesses operate to the types of jobs people hold to the way wars are fought,”  the struggles of IBM’s Watson “suggest that revolution remains some way off.” Currently, “no published research shows Watson improving patient outcomes” while “more than a dozen IBM partners and clients have halted or shrunk Watson’s oncology-related projects” because of its “limited impact on patients.” Often, “the tools didn’t add much value. In some cases, Watson wasn’t accurate.”

 

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