But it is an inefficient way to do both.
From a recreational and social standpoint, the clambake can be supremely entertaining, and if you want to feed 20, 30 or more people, it's not an entirely inefficient way to do so -- as long as you have plenty of help, plenty of time and a handy beach.
He noted that calculating properties of an arbitrary quantum model on a classical device is a seemingly very inefficient thing to do (taking a time that scales exponentially with the number of particles in the model being simulated), but a quantum device might be able to do this efficiently (taking a time that scales at most polynomially with particle number [52]).
"I'm a small company so it would be inefficient for me to do business in Western countries; Cargill and ConAgra would eat me alive," Ms. Cohen-Fitzgerald said of the international companies that sell food products.
They toppled Slobodan Milosevic's iron-fisted rule — something the inefficient politicians were unable to do throughout a decade of brutal wars and economic breakdown.
"Our current approach [to trials] is horribly inefficient, and we need to do something better," says Roger Lewis, an emergency medicine physician at Harbor-University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center.
Health care delivery data already routinely supports health services research, but often requires cumbersome, inefficient, and costly data manipulation to do so.
One physician said "A lot of it you learn by trial and error," and a researcher's fieldnotes noted someone "had developed some work-arounds that seemed valuable, but that required him to do many inefficient actions within [the system]." By support, we mean providing help to users at the time of need.
It's on the rest of the industry to do the introspective, inefficient human work of figuring out how to keep them.
"The last thing you want to do is have inefficient waste in putting a message in front of someone where they're not receptive to it," he said.
