cumulative

The results from concussions are cumulative[3], and football is one of the sports most prone to concussion[3].

The thing I see as similar is the cumulative effects of many small decisions over time.

The "cumulative advantage" study mentioned in the article is very interesting, and relevant to HN.

Most of these algorithms need\nslight adaptations to prevent cumulative effects of the 1% \nerror, but with those adaptations all perform as desired.

By aggregating predictive data about the cumulative micro-consumption habits of users, shipping times could be lowered for the products inside the long tail.

I suspect that advocacy energy is cumulative; it doesn't go away when the topic fades, but sticks around and waits to bind to subsequent advocacy topics, causing the site to steadily crud up with them.

It may be grunt work, but if you'd rather make your users waste a cumulative 25,000+ hours figuring things out, rather than you spending 100 hours of your own explaining things, I just can't have respect for your product, no matter how otherwise amazing it is.

In the current situation, we need to revive not only calculus, but also algebra, geometry, and the whole idea that mathematics is a rigorous, cumulative discipline in which each mathematician stands on the shoulders of giants.

Extroversion vs. introversion.• There are "human universals" -- themes people accept automatically, without marketing, as opposed to non-universals, which have to be taught.• Knowledge dominates IQ. Henry Ford accomplished more than Leonardo da Vinci not because he was smarter, but because humanity's cumulative knowledge had given him tools and inventions Leonardo could only dream of.• Tyranny of the present.