"But the important question is whether or not you need that information and our view very strongly is that,you know, all of that type of information that is relevant to the conservation and management of whales can be gathered using new and very powerful non-lethal tools."

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As you build these kinds of simulations, or anything like this, you need to think through whether things should be multiplicative or additive.

正如你建立各种仿真程序，或者类似的仿真程序时，你应该去想一想,他们应该是用加法还是用乘法。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

What it's designed to do is to give you the resources you think you need so that I can focus on measuring whether you'velearned anything as opposed to whether you've remembered, memorized anything, OK, and of course, something to calculate with.

这样做的目的是给与你们,认为需要的资源，这样我就能专心于,衡量你们是否已经学到了什么,而不是你们是否记得了什么，背下了什么，还有，当然，要计算一下。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And often, if you want to make a lot of it, you have to think about the thermodynamics of the system, how fast the reactions will go and kinetics, and then whether they'll go, the thermodynamics, and sometimes then you need to adjust the reactions, maybe use a transition metal to make it go better.

这种分子就不能正常工作，而且通常来说,如果你要大量生产一个东西,你必须考虑系统的热力学，反应速率和动力学,还有反应是否会发生，热力学，而且有时候你需要调整反应的发生。

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Because at the end of the day, if game theory is going to be useful for you in your later lives, whether it's in dating or in running a company or whatever it happens to be, you need to able to go from the story to the model.

因为到最后,如果你们在以后想要运用博弈论,不论是用在约会上还是在运作一家公司上,或者其他的什么情况,你需要从具体情况中提炼模型

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