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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]
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]
In other words, the FOMC members are bracing for a stronger economy in 2025 than previously expected, accompanied by higher inflation. That means fewer interest rate cuts. Wall Street is even more ...
In the 19th century, Eduard Sievers observed that vowels in short words are pronounced longer than the same vowels in long words. [3] [4]: 122 Menzerath & de Oleza (1928) [5] expanded this observation to state that, as the number of syllables in words increases, the syllables themselves become shorter on average.
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 ...
Under the “safety valve” provision of the First Step Act, criminal defendants could be eligible for shorter sentencing (less than the mandatory 15-year minimum) so long as they did not have ...
Other such long words are papaya, Kikuyu, opaque, and upkeep. [37] Kikuyu is typed entirely with the index finger, and so the longest one-fingered word on the Dvorak keyboard. There are no vowels on the right-hand side, and so the longest "right-handed" word is crwths.
Authors may more severely abbreviate glosses than is the norm, if they are particularly frequent within a text, e.g. IP rather than IMM.PST for 'immediate past'. This helps keep the gloss graphically aligned with the parsed text when the abbreviations are longer than the morphemes they gloss.