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How Many of Your Daily Tasks Could Be Automated?

Harvard Business Review

It has also has inspired scholarship by academics such as Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University, who estimate that 47% of occupations in the United States could be automated within 20 years, and David Autor of MIT, who argues that the ability of machines to take on human jobs is vastly overstated. economy.

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The Best Data Scientists Get Out and Talk to People

Harvard Business Review

A good data scientist can take many factors into account — the underlying geology, the current temperature of the oil, the well’s production history — to optimize the amount of steam. Treat Osborn’s Law — “variables won’t; constants aren’t” — as your watchword.