We utilize this information in three ways: to evaluate which move is best after we are done expanding, to allocate additional thinking time to moves where additional time is most relevant to game outcome, and, perhaps most importantly, to expand the tree along the most relevant lines.
He emphasizes finding the right metrics, efficiently allocating resources and thinking about marginal costs.
Standard tax principles of simplicity, efficiency and equity should guide our thinking in allocating the "residual value" as the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (of which I am a member) advocates.
These shifts in attention may be voluntary in which attention is intentionally disengaged from the primary task and instead allocated to other internal (thinking about what you have to do later; e.g., Seli, Risko, & Smilek, 2016) or external (checking your email on your phone) sources of information.
NASA's bosses are also thinking of allocating extra time on the ground-based telescopes they control to the search for such threats.
Before thinking about how to allocate your assets or researching individual investments, take time to develop and articulate your personal investment philosophy.
We need to start thinking about how to allocate resources to the important job of changing the way America eats, especially our kids.
If we are feeling emotionally out of balance or distressed, this part of our brain gets activated, and our brain becomes 'busy' dealing with the stress and emotions at hand and won't allocate resources to our creative thinking.
While worrying about their main worry topic, habitually high worriers responded less randomly in the key-press task (indicating less attentional control allocated to this task) than when thinking about their positive topic.
A local coffee shop is a good place to allocate blocks of 20-30 minutes for quality thinking.
