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First: Data is scarce; if available, there is often a time lag, geographical gaps or data biases.
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Karen Bakker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
The hope for Democratic strategists is that voters’ negative feelings about the economy result mostly from a time lag — and that memories of the rapid inflation of 2022 and early 2023 will soon fade.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Conventional ECUs suffer a time lag of 10 to 20 milliseconds, a figure BMW says its new proprietary box of tricks reduces to one millisecond.
—Jason Barlow, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
Because there was an unpredictable time lag whenever one machine communicated with another, simply timestamping bits of code that went between computers was not good enough to keep things in order.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
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Karen Bakker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
The hope for Democratic strategists is that voters’ negative feelings about the economy result mostly from a time lag — and that memories of the rapid inflation of 2022 and early 2023 will soon fade.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Conventional ECUs suffer a time lag of 10 to 20 milliseconds, a figure BMW says its new proprietary box of tricks reduces to one millisecond.
—Jason Barlow, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
Because there was an unpredictable time lag whenever one machine communicated with another, simply timestamping bits of code that went between computers was not good enough to keep things in order.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
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