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George Whitesides - Chemist
In his legendary career in chemistry, George Whitesides has been a pioneer in microfabrication and nanoscale self-assembly. Now, he's fabbing a diagnostic lab on a chip.

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Someday Harvard chemistry professor George Whitesides will take the time to look back on the 950 scientific articles he's coauthored, the dozen companies he's co-founded or the 50-plus patents on which he's named. (He works in four main areas: biochemistry, materials science, catalysis and physical organic chemistry.) In the meantime, he's trying to invent a future where medical diagnosis can be done by anyone for little or no cost. He's co-founded a nonprofit called Diagnostics for All that aims to provide dirt-cheap diagnostic devices, to provide healthcare in a world where cost is everything.

Among his solutions is a low-cost "lab-on-a-chip," made of paper and carpet tape. The paper wicks bodily fluids -- urine, for example -- and turns color to provide diagnostic information, such as how much glucose or protein is present. His goal is to distribute these simple paper diagnostic systems to developing countries, where people with basic training can administer tests and send results to distant doctors via cameraphone.

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George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity

George Whitesides: Ilmni soddalashtirish tomon

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Soddalik va osonlik: Biz buni ko'rganda taniy olamiz- lekin bu aslida nima? Bu maroqli va falsafali ma'ruzada George Whitesides bunga javob qidiradi.
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Most of the talks
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that you've heard in the last several fabulous days
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davomida siz eshitgan ko'pgina ma'ruzalar
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have been from people who have the characteristic
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biror narsa ustida o'ylab ko'rgan, o'z sohasining
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that they have thought about something,
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ustasi deb bilgan odamlar tomonidan berildi.
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they are experts, they know what's going on.
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Ular sohalarining mohir ustalari, nima bo'layotganni bilishadi.
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All of you know about the topic
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Siz hammangiz men gapiradigan mavzu
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that I'm supposed to talk about.
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haqida bilasiz.
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That is, you know what simplicity is,
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Yani soddalik, odiylik nima bilasiz,
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you know what complexity is.
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murakkablik nimaligini ham bilasiz.
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The trouble is, I don't.
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Shunisi hayratlanarliki, men bilmayman.
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And what I'm going to do is share with you
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Shuning uchun bu haqida bilmaganimni
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my ignorance on this subject.
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siz bilan baham ko'raman.
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I want you to read this,
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Mana buni o'qing
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because we're going to come back to it in a moment.
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shunki biz bunga yana qaytamiz.
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The quote is from
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Bu aforizmni
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the fabled Potter Stewart
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Potter Stweart yozgan,
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opinion on pornography.
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Pornografiya haqida.
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And let me just read it,
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Men sizga buni o'qib beray
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the important details here:
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kerakli qismlarini.
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"Shorthand description, ['hardcore pornography'];
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Pornografiyani qisqacha men hech
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and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly defining it.
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tavsiflay olmayman, lekin
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But I know it when I see it."
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uni ko'rganimda nimaligini bilaman.
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I'm going to come back to that in a moment.
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Men buni birozdan keyin yoritaman.
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So, what is simplicity?
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Xo'sh, oddiylik nima?
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It's good to start with some examples.
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Ba'zi misollar bilan boshlagan ma'qul.
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A coffee cup -- we don't think about coffee cups,
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Kofe chashkasi, biz ular haqida uncha o'ylamaymiz,
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but it's much more interesting than one might think --
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lekin ular biz o'ylagandan ham qiziqroq.
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a coffee cup is a device,
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Kofe chashkasi bu narsa, ha
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which has a container and a handle.
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idish, uning sopi bor.
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The handle enables you to hold it
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Sop sizga uni ushlashga inkon beradi,
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when the container is filled with hot liquid.
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masalan idishda issiq suyuqlik bo'lganda.
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Why is that important?
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Bu nega muhim?
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Well, it enables you to drink coffee.
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Xo'sh, bu orgali siz kofe icha olasiz.
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But also, by the way, the coffee is hot,
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aytgancha, kofe issiq,
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the liquid is sterile;
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suyuqlik esa toza, steril.
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you're not likely to get cholera that way.
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Siz unda vabo yuqtirolmaysiz.
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So the coffee cup, or the cup with a handle,
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Xullas, kofe chashkasi, sopi bilan-
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is one of the tools used by society
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bu jamiyat tomonidan umumsog'liqni
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to maintain public health.
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qo'llaydigan narsa.
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Scissors are your clothes,
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Qaychilar kiyimlar uchun.
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glasses enable you to see things
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ko'zoynaklar narsalarni kurish inmkonini beradi
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and keep you from being eaten by cheetahs
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va sizni sirtlonlar g'ajib tashlashidan
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or run down by automobiles,
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yoki avtomobillar urib ketishidan himoya qiladi.
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and books are, after all, your education.
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va kitoblar, qisqasini aytsak, sizning ta'limingiz.
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But there's another class of simple things,
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Lekin yan boshqa bir sodda narsalar guruhi bor
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which are also very important.
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va ular juda muhim.
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Simple in function,
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Vazifasi sodda bo'lgan
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but not at all simple in how they're constructed.
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lekin ishlab chiqarilishi sodda bo'lmagan narsalar.
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And the two here are just examples.
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Man bu ikkita misol.
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One is the cellphone, which we use every day.
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Biri uyali telefon, har kuni ishlatamiz uni.
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And it rests on a complexity,
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lekin u murakkablikdan tashkil topgan
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which has some characteristics
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o'ziga xos hususiyatlari bor
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very different from those that my friend
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va mening do'stim Benoit Mandelbrot
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Benoit Mandelbrot discussed,
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aytib o'tgandan faqrli
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but are very interesting.
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lekin juda qiziqarli.
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And the other, of course, is a birth control pill,
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Va ikkinchisi esa, homiladorlki oldini oladigan dorilar,
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which, in a very simple way,
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bu dori oddiy usul bilan
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fundamentally changed the structure of society
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jamiyatning tuzilishini tubdan o'zgartirdi
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by changing the role of women in it
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yani ayollarning rolini o'zgartirdi
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by providing to them
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ularga jinsiy ko'payish
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the opportunity to make reproductive choices.
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borasida tanlashga imkon berdi.
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So, there are two ways of thinking about this word, I think.
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Menimcha, bunga ikki usul bilan yondashish mumkin.
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And here I've corrupted
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Va men bu yerda Potter Stewartning gapini
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the Potter Stewart quotation
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biroz boshqa yo'lda qo'llayapman
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by saying that we can think about something --
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yani biz biror narsa haqida o'ylab,
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which spans all the way from scissors
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masalan qaychilardan boshlab
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to the cell phone,
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uyali telefongacha
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Internet and birth control pills --
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intenet va homiladorlik oldini oluvchi dorilarni
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by saying that they're simple,
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oddiy narsalar deb ataymiz
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the functions are simple,
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ularning vazifalari oddiy
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and we recognize what that simplicity is
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va biz ularni ko'rganimizda
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when we see it.
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ularning oddiyligini taniy olamiz.
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Or there may be another way of doing it,
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Yoki boshqa usul bilan yondoshsak,
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which is to think about the problem in terms of what --
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yani muammoga , falsafa tomonidan
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if you associate with moral philosophers --
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qarash, va bu
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is called the teapot problem.
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choynak muammosi deb ataladi.
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The teapot problem I'll pose this way.
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Choynak muammosi quyidagidan iborat.
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Suppose you see a teapot,
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Tasavvur qiling choynak bor,
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and the teapot is
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va bu choynak
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filled with hot water.
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issiq suv bilan to'ldirilgan.
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And you then ask the question:
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Endi siz so'raysiz:
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Why is the water hot?
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Nima uchun suv issiq?
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And that's a simple question.
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Va bu oddiy savol.
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It's like, what is simplicity?
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Bu huddi: oddiylik nima? deganday
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One answer would be:
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bir javob shunday bo'lishi mumkin:
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because the kinetic energy of the water molecules is high
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chunki suv molekulalarining kinetik energiyasi yuqori
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and they bounce against things rapidly --
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va ular devorlarga tez tez uriladi.
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that's a kind of physical science argument.
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Bu fizikaviy tomondan javob berish.
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A second argument would be:
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Ikkinchi javob quyidagicha:
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because it was sitting on a stove with the flame on --
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chunki, u olov yonib turgan gazda turgan edi.
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that's an historical argument.
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Bu tarixiy yondashuv.
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A third is that I wanted hot water
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Uchinchisi esa, men choy uchun
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for tea --
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issiq suv hohlagan edim deydi.
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that's an intentional argument.
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Bu maqsad bilan yondashuv.
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And, since this is coming from a moral philosopher,
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Va bu faylasuv tomonidan kelayotgani uchun,
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the fourth would be that it's part of God's plan for the universe.
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to'rtinchi javob: bu Xudoning borliq uchun yaratgan rejasining bir qismi.
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All of these are possibilities.
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Bularning hammasi bo'lishi mumkin.
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The point is that you get into trouble
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Muhimi shuki, siz bir savol berganda
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when you ask a single question
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va birgina javob kutganingizda
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with a single box for an answer,
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muammoga duch kelasiz,
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in which that single question actually is many questions
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chunki savol aslida ko'p javoblarga ega
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with quite different meanings,
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va har hil ma'nolarni ifodalaydi,
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but with the same words.
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lekin bir hil so'zlar bilar
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Asking, "What is simplicity?" I think falls in that category.
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Menimcha, oddiylik nima deb so'rash ham huddi shunday muammoga uchraydi.
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What is the state of science?
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Ilm nima?
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And, interestingly, complexity
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va qizig'i shuki, murakkablik
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is very highly evolved.
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shuda yuqori darajada shakllangan.
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We have a lot of interesting information
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Bizda murakkablik nimaligi
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about what complexity is.
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haqida juda ko'p qiziqalri ma'lumotlar bor.
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Simplicity, for reasons
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Oddiy, sodda esa, ba'zi sabablarga ko'ra
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that are a little bit obscure,
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biroz mavhum tushuncha,
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is almost not pursued,
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va deyarli o'ylab ko'rilmagan,
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at least in the academic world.
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hech bo'lmaganda, ilmiy tomondan.
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We academics -- I am an academic --
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Biz akademiklar- men ham akademik- olimman-
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we love complexity.
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biz murraklikni yaxshi ko'ramiz.
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You can write papers about complexity,
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siz murakkablik haqida maqolalar yozishingiz mumkin.
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and the nice thing about complexity is
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Murakkablikning yaxhshi tomoni shuki
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it's fundamentally intractable in many ways,
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u har tomonlama o'zaro ta'sirda bo'la oladi
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so you're not responsible for outcomes. (Laughter)
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va siz uning natijasi uchun javobgar emassiz.
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Simplicity -- all of you really would like
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Soddalik bu siz har kuni
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your Waring Blender in the morning
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ertalab turib mevalardan sharbat tayyorlaysiz,
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to make whatever a Waring Blender does,
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sharbat tayorlagich asbob o'z vazifasini bajaradi-
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but not explode or play Beethoven.
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siz bilasizki bu asbob Bethoven musiqasini chalmaydi.
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You're not interested in the limits of these things.
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Siz narsalarning chegarasi haqida hadeb ham o'ylab ko'rmaysiz.
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So what one is interested in
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Xullas, biz qiziqadigan narsa bu
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has a lot to do with the rewards of the system.
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narsalarning bizga foydasi.
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And there's a lot of rewards in thinking
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Va biz murakkab narsalar
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about complexity and emergence,
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haqida ko'p o'ylaganda, oddiy narsalarga
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not so much in thinking about simplicity.
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qaraganda ko'proq foyda ko'ramiz.
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One of the things I want to do
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Va men xohlagan narsalardan biri
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is to help you with a very important task --
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shuki sizga juda muhim vazifani tushuntirish,
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which you may not know that you have very often --
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qaysiki, siz odatda uning mavjudligini bilmaysiz
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which is to understand
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yani bu Fizik bilan birga o'tirib
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how to sit next to a physicist at a dinner party
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suhbat qura olishni
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and have a conversation. (Laughter)
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tushunishdir.
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And the words that I would like you to focus on
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Boshqacha qilib aytganda, siz murakkab
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are complexity and emergence,
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narsalarga e'tibor berasiz
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because these will enable you to start the conversation
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shunki ana shu narsalar suhbatni boshlashga yordam beradi
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and then daydream about other things.
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keyin siz boshqa narsalar haqida hayolga cho'mib ketasiz.
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(Laughter)
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(Kulgi)
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All right, what is complexity in this view of things,
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Narsalarga kelsak, xo'sh murakkablik nima?
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and what is emergence?
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va kelib chiqish nima?
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We have, actually, a pretty good working definition of complexity.
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Biz aslida Murakkablikni tavsiflay olamiz
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It is a system, like traffic,
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bu bir tizim, huddi transportga o'xhshash
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which has components.
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o'z qismlariga ega.
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The components interact with one another.
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qismlar bir biri bilan munosabatda
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These are cars and drivers. They dissipate energy.
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Huddi mashina va haydovchilar kabi. Ular energiya chiqaradi.
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It turns out that, whenever you have that system,
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Qarabsizki, har safar bu tizimga ega bo'lganda
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weird stuff happens,
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g'alati hodisa sodir bo'ladi,
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and you in Los Angeles
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va siz Los Angelesda buni
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probably know this better than anyone.
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hammadan yaxhshi bilsangiz kerak.
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Here's another example,
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Yana boshqa misol
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which I put up because
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va menimcha bu hozirda
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it's an example of really important current science.
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juda muhim ilmiy misol.
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You can't possibly read that. It's not intended that you read it,
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Buni o'qiy olmassiz, o'qish uchun mo'ljallanmagan.
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but that's a tiny part
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Lekin bu kimyoviy jarayon,
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of the chemical reactions going on
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reaktsiyaning bir kichik qismi
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in each of your cells at any given moment.
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va bu har biringizning hujayrangizda hozir sodir bo'layapti.
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And it's like the traffic that you see.
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Huddi transportdek, va eng ajablanarlisi shuki
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The amazing thing about the cell is that
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hujayralar o'zaro
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it actually does maintain a fairly stable
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juda mustahakam
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working relationship with other cells,
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munosatbatdadir.
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but we don't know why.
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Lekin nima uchun biz bilmaymiz.
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Anyone who tells you that we understand life,
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Kimdakim sizga biz hayotni tushuna olamiz desa
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walk away.
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unda nari keting.
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And let me reduce this to the simplest level.
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keling men bu sodda yo'l bilan tushuntiray.
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We've heard from Bill Gates recently.
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Biz yaqinda Bill Gatesdan eshitdik.
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All of us, to some extent, study
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Biz hammamiz qaysidir darajada
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this thing called a Bill Gates.
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Bill Gates degan narsani o'rganamiz.
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Terrific. You learn everything you can about that.
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Zo'r. Siz iloji boricha bu haqida hamma narsani o'rganasiz.
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And then there's another kind of thing that you might study,
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Va yana boshqa o'rganish kerak bo'lgan narsalar bordir.
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and you study that hard.
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Va siz ularni astoidil o'rganasiz.
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That's a Bono, this is a Bono.
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Bu Bono, anau u Bono.
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But then, if you know everything you can know about those two things,
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Lekin, keyin siz bu 2 narsa haqida o'rganish mumkin bo'lgan hamma narsani bilasiz
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and you put them together,
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va ularni birga qo'shasiz,
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what can you say about this combination?
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keyin bu to'plam haqida nima deya olasiz?
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The answer is, not a lot.
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Javobi: uncha ko'p emas.
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And that's complexity.
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Va mana bu murakkablikdir.
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Now, imagine building that up to a city, or to a society,
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Endi, tasavvur qiling shahar, jamiyat miqyosida
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and you've got, obviously, an interesting problem.
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va albatta sizda juda qiziqarli muammo paydo bo'ladi.
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All right, so let me give you an example
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Keling misol keltiray
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of simplicity
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oddiylikning ma'lum bir
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of a particular kind.
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turi haqida.
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And I want to introduce a word
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Keyin men sizga bir so'zni
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that I think is very useful,
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tanishtiraman, menimcha juda foydali
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which is stacking.
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yani bu to'plash.
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And I'm going to use stacking for a kind of simplicity
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va to'plashni men oddiylikning bir tuirga misol qilaman
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that has the characteristic
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yani u shunday xususiyatga egaki
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that it is so simple
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u juda oddiy
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and so reliable
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va ishonarli
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that I can build things with it.
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va men u bilan narsalarni qura olaman.
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Or I'm going to use simple to mean
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Yani men oddiylik deganni
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reliable, predictable, repeatable.
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ishonarli, oldindan bilsa bo'ladigan, va takrorlash mumkin deb tushunaman.
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And I'm going to use as an example the Internet,
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because it's a particularly good example
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chunki u jamlash, to'plashning
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of stacked simplicity.
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juda yaxshi bir namunasi.
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We call it a complex system, which it is,
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Biz uni murakkab tizim deb ataymiz,
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but it's also something else.
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lekin uning yana boshqa tomoni bor.
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The Internet starts with mathematics,
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Internet Matematikadan boshlanadi.
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it starts with binary.
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U binar (1,0), qo'shlik bilan boshlanadi.
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And if you look at the list of things on the bottom,
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Va agar siz quyidagi narsalarga e'tibor bersangiz,
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we are familiar with the Arabic numbers
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biz arab raqqamlari bilan tanishmiz
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one to 10 and so on.
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birdan 10 gacha va hakozo.
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In binary, one is 0001,
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seven is 0111.
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va yetti esa 0111
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The question is: Why is binary
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Savol shuki: Nima uchun Binar tizimi
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simpler than Arabic?
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Arab raqamlaridan soddaroq?
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And the answer is, simply,
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that if I hold up three fingers, you can count that easily,
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agar 3 barmoqni kursatda, osongina sanay olasiz
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but if I hold up this,
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lekin agar men bunday qilsam
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it's sort of hard to say that I just did seven.
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yetti ekanligina sanash biroz murakkab.
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The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way
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of representing numbers.
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sodda usul bilan ko'rsatish.
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Anything else is more complicated.
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Boshqa hammasi undan murakkabdir.
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You can catch errors with it,
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Va siz xatolarni topishingiz mumkin.
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it's unambiguous in its reading,
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Uni o'qish ikki ma'noli emas
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there are lots of good things about binary.
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Binar tiziming juda ko'p yaxshi tomonlari bor.
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So it is very, very simple
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Yani, uni o'qishni o'rgangach
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once you learn how to read it.
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uning juda juda sodda ekanini ko'rasiz.
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Now, if you like to represent
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this zero and one of binary,
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binar orqali ifodalamoqchi bo'lsangiz
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you need a device.
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sizga asbob kerak.
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And think of things in your life
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Va agar siz hayotiy misol bilan
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that are binary,
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binar tizimini ifodalashni xohlasangiz,
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one of them is light switches.
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ularning biri bu chiroqni o'chirib yoqishdir.
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They can be on and off. That's binary.
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ular o'chadi va yonadi. mana bu Binar tizimdir.
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Now wall switches, we all know, fail.
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Biz bilamizgi bu devordagi uskuna ishlamay qolishi mumkin,
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But our friends who are condensed matter physicists
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lekin bizning Zich Materiya Fizik do'stlarimiz
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managed to come up, some 50 years ago,
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50 yilcha oldin, juda ajoyib uskuna o'ylab topishdi
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with a very nice device, shown under that bell jar,
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mana bur ko'rib turganingizdek
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which is a transistor.
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bu transistor.
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A transistor is nothing more than a wall switch.
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It turns things on and off,
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u narsalarni yoqadi va o'chiradi
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but it does so without moving parts
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lekin u buni qismlarni siljitmasdan qiladi
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and it doesn't fail, basically, for a very long period of time.
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va u ishlamay qolmaydi, xullas ancha uzoq vaqtga yaraydi.
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So the second layer of simplicity
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Soddalikning ikkinchi darajasi yani bu
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was the transistor in the Internet.
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transistor va internetdir.
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So, since the transistor is so simple,
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Transistorlar sodda bo'lgani uchun
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you can put lots of them together.
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ularning bir nechasini birga ulash mumkin.
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And you put lots of them together and you come with
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something called integrated circuits.
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qo'shma zanjirsimon tarmoq kelib chiqadi.
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And a current integrated circuit
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va bu har bir tok tarmog'i
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might have in each one of these chips
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bunday chip- yani qismlarga ega
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something like a billion transistors,
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va ular huddi milliard transistor kabidir
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all of which have to work perfectly every time.
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va har biri ,har safar juda yaxhshi ishlaydi.
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So that's the next layer of simplicity,
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Va bu soddalikning keyingi darajasi,
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and, in fact, integrated circuits
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va aslida, zanjirsimon tarmoqlar
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are really simple in the sense that they,
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aslida juda sodda
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in general, work really well.
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va umuman rosa yaxshi ishlaydi.
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With integrated circuits, you can build cellphones.
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Ular yordamida siz uyali telefonlar yasay olasiz.
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You all are accustomed to having your cellphones work
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Siz hammangiz uyali telefoninggizni ishlashiga o'rganib qolgansiz
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the large majority of the time.
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ko'pincha.
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In Boston ... Boston is a little bit like Namibia
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Bostonda esa, biroz Namibiga o'xshash
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in its cell phone coverage, (Laughter)
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yani uyali telefon signaliga kelsak
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so that we're not accustomed to that all the time,
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va biz uni har doim ishlashiga ko'nikmaganmiz
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but some of the time.
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lekin ba'zan bo'lib turadi.
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But, in fact, if you have cell phones,
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Lekin, sizda uyali telefon bo'lsa
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you can now go to this nice lady
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siz bu Namibiyaning
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who's somewhere like Namibia,
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biror yeridagi bu ajoyib ayolga borsangiz bo'ladi
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and who is extremely happy with the fact
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u shuning uchun juda hursdandki,
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that although she does not have
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uning M.I.T universitetidan
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an master's degree in
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elektrik injiner muhandis
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electrical engineering from MIT,
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Master dimplomi bo'lmasa ham
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she's nonetheless able to hack her cell phone
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u baribir uyali telefoniga qandaydir xakerlik qilib
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to get power in some funny way.
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uni qandaydir usul bilan quvvatini ishga tushira oladi.
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And from that comes the Internet.
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Bundan kelib chiqib, Internetga kelsak.
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And this is a map of bitflows across the continent.
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Bu xarita materik bo'ylab bayt oqimini ko'rsatadi.
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The two blobs that are light in the middle there
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eng yoriq va gavjum ishlatilgan joy
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are the United States and Europe.
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bu AQSH va Evropa.
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And then back to simplicity again.
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Va yana oddiylikka qaytamiz.
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So here we have what I think is one of the great ideas,
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Menimcha bizda eng zo'r kashfiyotlardan biri
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which is Google.
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Google bor,
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Which, in this simple portal
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u huddi oddiy yo'l bilan ishlaydi,
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makes the claim
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ular aytishicha dunyoda
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that it makes accessible
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hamma axborotlarga
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all of the world's information.
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u orqali bog'lanish mumkin.
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But the point is that
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Lekin shunisi muhimki
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that extraordinary simple idea
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bu g'aroyib fikr
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rests on layers of simplicity
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oddiy qatlamlardan iborat
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each compounded into a complexity
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va har bir qatlam esa o'zicha sodda bo'lgan
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that is itself simple,
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murakkablikdan yo'g'rilgan,
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in the sense that it is completely reliable.
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va unga butunlay ishonsa bo'ladi.
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All right, let me then finish off
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Keling men endi 4 ta gap
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with four general statements,
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va 2 ta aforizmni misol qilib
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an example and two aphorisms.
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ma'ruzamni tugatay.
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The characteristics, which I think
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Oddiy, sodda narsalarning
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are useful to think about for simple things:
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xususiyatlaini sanaydigan bo'lsak:
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First, they are predictable.
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birinchida, ularning ishlashini oldindan aytib berish mumkin
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Their behavior is predictable.
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Ular oddiy kutilgan yo'l bilan ishlaydi.
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Now, one of the nice characteristics
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Endi, bu oddiy narsalar
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of simple things
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xususiyatlarining biri
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is you know what it's going to do, in general.
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siz ular umuman olganda nima qilishini bilasiz.
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So simplicity and predictability
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Oddiylik va kutilgan natija
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are characteristics of simple things.
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bu oddiy narsalarning xususiyati.
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The second is, and this is a real world statement,
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Ikkinchisi, moddiy tomondan qaraganda
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they're cheap.
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ular arzon.
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If you have things that are cheap enough,
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Agar sizda arzon narsa bo'lsa
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people will find uses for them,
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odamlar ularni ishlatishning yo'lini topadi
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even if they seem very primitive.
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xatto ular juda sodda ibtidoiy tuyulsa ham.
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So, for example, stones.
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Masalan, toshlar.
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You can build cathedrals out of stones,
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Toshlardan siz binolar qura olasiz,
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you just have to know what it does.
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siz shunchaki ularni nima qilishni bilsangiz bas.
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You carve them in blocks and then you
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Ularni g'ishtga aylantirsa, va keyin
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pile them on top of one another,
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bir birining ustiga qo'ysa
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and they support weight.
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va ular og'irlikka chiday oladi.
12:28
So there has to be function, the function has to be predictable
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Va demak ularning kutilgan vazifasi bo'lishi kerak
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and the cost has to be low.
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va ular arzon bo'lishi kerak.
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What that means is
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Demak, ular
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that you have to have a high performance
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vazifasini yaxshi bajarishi
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or value for cost.
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yoki narxini oqlashi kerak.
12:41
And then I would propose
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Va men oxirgi qismni
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as this last component
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sizga taklif qilaman
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that they serve, or have the potential to serve,
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yani ular huddi qurilish materialidek
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as building blocks.
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ishlaydi.
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That is, you can stack them.
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Yani siz ularni ustma ust qo'yib jamlay olasiz
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And stack can mean this way, or it can mean this way,
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bir yoki boshqa usul bilan
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or it can mean in some arbitrary n-dimensional space.
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yoki bu siz tasavvur qilgan n o'lchamli fazodada bolishi mumkin.
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But if you have something that has a function,
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Lekin sizda vazifa bajara oladigan
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and it's really cheap,
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juda arzon
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people will find new ways of putting it together
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va odamlar ular dan yangi narsalar yasash uchun
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to make new things.
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ularni birlashtira oladigan yo'llari bor.
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Cheap, functional, reliable things
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Arzon, ishlaydigan, ishonarli narsalar
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unleash the creativity of people
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odamlarning ijodkorligiga yo'l ochadi
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who then build stuff that you could not imagine.
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va keyin ular siz tasavvur qila olmaydigan narsalarni qurishadi.
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There's no way of predicting the Internet
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Birinchi transistorga qarab turib siz
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based on the first transistor.
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internetning paydo bo'lishini bashorat qilolmagan bo'lardingiz.
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It just is not possible.
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Bu mumkin emas.
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So these are the components.
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Demak bular faqat qurilish qismlari.
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Now, the example
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Endi, bu misol
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is something that I want to give you
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biz o'zimiz qiladigan
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from the work that we ourselves do.
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ishdan namuna.
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We are very interested in
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Biz rivojlanayotgan dunyoda
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delivering health care in the developing world,
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tibbiy salomatlik yordamini berishga juda qiziqamiz.
13:37
and one of the things that we wish to do in this particular business
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Va bu sohada qilayotgan ayni bir narsa bu
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is to find a way of doing medical diagnosis
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tibbiy diagnoz qo'yish uchun
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at as close to zero cost
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hech pul ketgazmasdan
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as we can manage.
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diagnoz qilishdir.
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So, how does one do that?
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Buni qanday qilsa bo'ladi?
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This is a world in which there's no electricity,
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Bu yerda elektr tok yo'q
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there's no money, there's no medical competence.
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pul yo'q, tibbiy yetuklik yo'q.
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And I don't want to spend your time in going through the details,
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Va men bu haqida batafsil gapriib o'tirmayman
13:57
but in the lower right-hand corner,
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lekin quyidagi o'ng burchakda
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you see an example of the kind of thing that we have.
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siz bizdagi narsalarning namunasini ko'rasiz.
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It's a little paper chip.
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bu kichkicha qog'oz chip.
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It has a few things printed on it
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unda bir necha yozuvlar bor
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using the same technology
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rasm kitoblarni ishlagandagi
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that you use for making comic books,
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texnologiyadan foydalanib yozilgan
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which was the inspiration for this particular idea.
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aslida u bizni juda ruhlantirdi.
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And you put a drop, in this case, of urine at the bottom.
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va unign ustida tomdirasiz, masalan siydikni.
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It wicks its way up into these little branches.
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U bu kichkina tarmoqlarga so'riladi.
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You know, no power required.
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va buning uchun quvvat kerak emas.
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It turns colors. In this particular case,
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U ranglarni o'zgartiradi, masalan
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you're reading kidney function.
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siz buyrak ahvolini bu yerda ko'ra olasiz.
14:26
And, since the health care worker
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va dunyoning u qismida
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of much of this part of the world
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tibbiy yordam ko'rsatuvchilar
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is an 18 year-old with an AK-47,
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asosan 18 yoshli va AK-47 miltiqli odamlar bo'lishi mumkin,
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who happens to be out of work and is willing
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qaysiki ular ishsiz
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to go around and do this sort of thing,
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va yon atrofda yurib telefoni bilan
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he can take a picture of it with his cellphone,
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rasmga olib uni doktorga
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send the picture back to where there is a doctor,
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yuboradi,
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and the doctor can look at it.
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va doktor unga qaraydi.
14:44
So what you've done is to take a technology,
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Bu shunga misolki, texnologiya
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which is available everywhere,
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hamma joyda mavjud
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make a device, which is extremely cheap,
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arzon narsa yasang
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and make it in such a fashion
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va uni modaga kiriting
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that it is very, very reliable.
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va unga ishonib ishlatsa bo'ladigan bo'lsin.
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If we can pull this off,
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Agar biz shunday qila olsak,
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if we can build more function,
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biz unga qo'shimcha vazifalar kirita olamiz,
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it will be stackable.
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jamlay olamiz
15:02
That is to say, if we can make the basic technology
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Yani, biz oddiy texnologiyani
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of one or two things work,
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bir ikki narsa qilish uchun yasasak
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it will be applicable to a very, very
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u insoniatning
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large variety of human conditions,
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juda xilma xil ehtijoyi uchun ishlatila oladi.
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and hence, extendable in both
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va uning vertikal va gorizontal bo'yicha
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vertical and horizontal directions.
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kengaytirsa bo'ladi.
15:16
Part of my interest in this, I have to say,
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mening qizishimning biri shuki
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is that I would like to -- how do I put this politely? --
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muloyimgina qilib aytganda, men AQSHning
15:21
change the way, or maybe eviscerate,
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so'g'liqni saqlash tizimini o'zgartirish,
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the capital structure of the U.S. health care system,
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chunki u tubdan
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which I think is fundamentally broken.
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singan va yaroqsizdir.
15:29
So, let me close --
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Xullas-
15:31
(Applause)
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(Qarsaklar)
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Let me close with my two aphorisms.
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2 aforizmga kelsak.
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One of them is from Mr. Einstein,
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Biri Mister Einshteindan.
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and he says, "Everything should be made
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U shunday deydi: " Hamma narsa iloji boricha
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as simple as possible, but not simpler."
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sodda qilib yasalishi kerak, lekin soddaroq emas"
15:43
And I think that's a very good way of thinking about the problem.
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Menimcha, bu muammo haqida o'ylashning juda yaxshi yo'lidir.
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If you take too much out
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Agar siz biror sodda narsadan
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of something that's simple, you lose function.
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juda ko'p qismini olib tashlasangiz, u vazifasini yo'qotadi.
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You have to have low cost,
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U arzon bo'lishi kerak
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but you also have to have a function.
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lekin vazifaga ham ega bo'lishi kerak.
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So you can't make it too simple.
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Demak siz uni haddan ziyod sodda qilolmaysiz.
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And the second is a design issue,
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Ikkinchi esa dizayn,
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and it's not directly relevant, but it's a nice statement.
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u tubdan bog'liq emas, lekin yaxhshi yondashuv
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This is by de Saint-Exupery.
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Bu esa Saint-Exupery.
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And he says, "You know you've achieved perfection in design,
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U shunday deydi: Siz mukammal dizaynga shunda ega bo'lasizki,
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not when you have nothing more to add,
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qachonki, unga qo'shadigan ham
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but when you have nothing more to take away."
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olib tashlaydigan ham narsa yo'q"
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And that certainly is going in the right direction.
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Menimcha bu to'g'ri yo'l.
16:16
So, what I think one can begin to do
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Demak, har bir odam shuni o'ylashni
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with this kind of
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boshlash mumkin,
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cut at the word simplicity,
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yani oddiylikning mazmuni haqida
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which doesn't cover Brancusi,
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bu Rancuzzi emas,
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it doesn't answer the question of
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u nima uchun Mondrian Vant Gofdan
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why Mondrian is better or worse
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yaxhshiroq yoki yomonroq
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or simpler or less simpler than Van Gogh,
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degan savollarga javob bermaydi,
16:33
and certainly doesn't address the question
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va u albatta Mozart yoki Bax yaxhshimi
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of whether Mozart is simpler than Bach.
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degan savolga ham javob bermaydi.
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But it does make a point --
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Lekin u muhim,
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which is one which, in a sense,
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yani ma'lum bir ma'noda
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differentiates the real world of people who make things,
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u dunyodagi narsa ishlab chiqaradigan odamlar va
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and the world of people who think about things,
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ular haqida o'ylaydigan odamlarni bir biridan farqlaydi,
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which is, there is an intellectual merit
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yani, narsalarni iloji boricha
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to asking: How do we make things
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qanday soddalashtirsak bo'ladi deb so'raydigan odamlarda ongli yondashuv bor.
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as simple as we can,
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Ular qanday qilib arzon,
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as cheap as we can, as functional as we can
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vazifasi bor
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and as freely interconnectable as we can?
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va o'zaro erkin munosabatli narsalarni ishlasak bo'ladi deb so'raydi?
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If we make that kind of simplicity in our technology
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Agar biz texnologiyani soddalashtirsak,
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and then give it to you guys,
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va sizlarga bersak
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you can go off and do all kinds of fabulous things with it.
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siz u bilan juda zo'r narsalar qila olasiz.
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Thank you very much.
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Sizga Tashakkur.
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(Applause)
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(Qarsaklar)
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Chris Anderson: Quick question.
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Chris Anderson: qisqa bir savol.
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So can you picture
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Demak siz buni tasavvur qila olasiz
17:25
that a science of simplicity
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ilmining oddiy soddaligi
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might get to the point where
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shu darajaga yetish mumkinki
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you could look out at various systems --
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siz har xil tizimlarga qarab
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say a financial system or a legal system, health system -- and say,
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masalan, iqtisodiy, qonuniy, tibbiy tizimlarga qarab
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"That has got to the point of danger
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ular xavfli bir darajaga yoki
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or dysfunctionality for the following reasons,
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ma'lim sabablarga ko'ra yaroqsiz holga keldi
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and this is how we might simplify it"?
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va uni qanday soddalashtirsak bo'ladi deb ayta olasizmi?
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George Whitesides: Yes, I think you could. Because if you look
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George Whitesides: Ha, bunday qilsa bo'ladi agar
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at the components from which the system is made
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siz tizimni tashkil qilgan qismlarga qarasangiz
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and examine their fragility, or their stability,
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va ularning nomustahkamligini tekshirsangiz,
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you can probably build a kind of risk assessment based on that basis.
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shu asosida siz muammoning xavfli tomoni qanday yeshish mumkilnigini ko'rasiz.
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CA: Have you started to do that?
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CA: Siz buni boshladingizmi?
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I mean, with the health system, you got a sort of
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Yani tibbiyot sohasida siz buni boshladingiz
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radical solution on the cost side,
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narx navoni tubdan o'zgartirish,
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but in terms of the system itself?
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lekin butun tizimga kelsakchi?
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GW: Well, no.
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GW: Xo'sh, yo'q.
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How do I put that simply? No.
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Man sizga oddiy javob, yo'q.
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CA: That was a simple, powerful answer. GW: Yes.
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CA: Bu juda kuchli javob. GW. Ha.
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CA: So, in terms of
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CA: Sizning diagnostika texnologiyangizga
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that diagnostic technology that you've got,
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kelsak, uni qachon
18:09
where is that, and when do you see that
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va qayerda ishga tushganini
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maybe getting rolled out to scale.
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ko'ramiz.
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GW: That's coming out soon. I mean, the systems work,
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GW: Yaqinda keladi. Bu narsalar ishlaydi,
18:16
and we have to find out how to manufacture them and do things of this kind,
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va biz ular xalq uchun ishlab chiqarish haqida o'ylayapmiz
18:18
but the basic technology works.
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lekin asl texnologiya hozir ishlay oladi.
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CA: You've got a company set up to ...
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Sizning bu sohada komaniyangiz bor-
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GW: A foundation, a foundation. Not-for-profit.
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Bu Tashkilot, Moddiy foyda uchun emas.
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CA: All right. Well, thank you so much for your talk. Thank you. (Applause)
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Mayli, Ma'ruzangiz uchun rahmat.
Translated by Nafissa Yakubova
Reviewed by Farrukh Yakubov

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
George Whitesides - Chemist
In his legendary career in chemistry, George Whitesides has been a pioneer in microfabrication and nanoscale self-assembly. Now, he's fabbing a diagnostic lab on a chip.

Why you should listen

Someday Harvard chemistry professor George Whitesides will take the time to look back on the 950 scientific articles he's coauthored, the dozen companies he's co-founded or the 50-plus patents on which he's named. (He works in four main areas: biochemistry, materials science, catalysis and physical organic chemistry.) In the meantime, he's trying to invent a future where medical diagnosis can be done by anyone for little or no cost. He's co-founded a nonprofit called Diagnostics for All that aims to provide dirt-cheap diagnostic devices, to provide healthcare in a world where cost is everything.

Among his solutions is a low-cost "lab-on-a-chip," made of paper and carpet tape. The paper wicks bodily fluids -- urine, for example -- and turns color to provide diagnostic information, such as how much glucose or protein is present. His goal is to distribute these simple paper diagnostic systems to developing countries, where people with basic training can administer tests and send results to distant doctors via cameraphone.

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