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New Year’s Resolutions for 2018: What’s Your Personal Challenge?

Talking Logistics

He knew from the beginning of his peculiar year that the hardest challenge would come in October: defeating Magnus Carlsen [a 26-year-old world champion from Norway] in a game of chess. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been setting a personal challenge every year since 2009.

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Towards Causal Artificial Intelligence

Enterra Insights

For example, Vigen shows that, between 1999 and 2009, there was a strong correlation between U.S. crude oil imports from Norway and the number of drivers killed in collisions with railway trains. avoided importing crude oil from Norway. Nobody believes, however, that dozens of lives could have been saved had the U.S.