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Wright's law, as described by the speaker, relates process-efficiency improvement to the doubling of the number of copies produced.
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“So I think that's pretty relevant because you have, I think it's Wright's law,”
“which is that your ability to improve efficiency on a process.”
“processes proportional to doubling the amount of copies produced so if you're producing a million or something you're probably getting very very good at it”Play from 54:21Report a misattribution
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