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  2. Hofstadter's law - Wikipedia

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    Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) to describe the widely experienced difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity: [1] [2]

  3. Planning fallacy - Wikipedia

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    The Sydney Opera House was expected to be completed in 1963. A scaled-down version opened in 1973, a decade later. The original cost was estimated at $7 million, but its delayed completion led to a cost of $102 million. [10] The Eurofighter Typhoon defense project took six years longer than expected, with an overrun cost of 8 billion euros. [10]

  4. Escalation of commitment - Wikipedia

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    "The aggregate model's emphasis is upon the accumulation and balance of forces rather than the ordering of effects over time." [1] The model is general and can provide an ideal view as to how the effects whether positive or negative are defined by micro and macro forces. This model goes by situation rather than what researchers have defined as ...

  5. Powell says taking 'longer than expected' for inflation to ...

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    Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled that it will likely take longer to cut rates, saying it will take 'longer than expected' to achieve the confidence needed to get inflation down to the central bank ...

  6. Putin says Ukraine fight is taking longer than expected - AOL

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Wednesday that his “special military operation” in Ukraine is taking longer than expected but said it has succeeded in seizing new territory and ...

  7. Brooks's law - Wikipedia

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    The quantity, quality and role of the people added to the project also must be taken into consideration. One simple way to circumvent the law on an overrun project is to add more people than needed, in such a way that the extra capacity compensates the training and communication overhead. [9]

  8. California COVID surge is surprisingly stronger, longer ... - AOL

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    That's more than double the level seen a month earlier. Coronavirus levels in L.A. County wastewater are at 82% of last summer's peak, which occurred in early September. Read more: 'The virus ...

  9. Lindy effect - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy. Longevity implies a resistance to change, obsolescence, or competition, and greater odds of continued existence into the future. [2] Where the Lindy effect applies, mortality rate decreases ...