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JANUARY 29, 2024

A map, by Pantry & Larder, shows the cost of a Big Mac at each McDonald’s in the United States, as of early 2023. Tags: Big Mac , cost , McDonald's As you might expect, the prices are higher on the east and west coasts. The most expensive Big Mac was in Lee, Massachusetts for $8.09.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

McDonald report on the efforts to maintain water levels in the Panama Canal. Tags: Bloomberg , Panama Canal , water For Bloomberg, Peter Millard and Michael D. Falling levels limit the number of ships that can pass through the waterway and that’s a problem when a quarter trillion dollars worth of trade pass through every year.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

Kyle McDonald estimated emissions and energy usage to try to understand better: “Ethereum is comparable to keeping 2-3 coal power plant running.” ” See McDonald’s real-time estimates here. Tags: cryptocurrency , emissions , Ethereum , Kyle McDonald.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As explained by Stuart McDonald, Simpson’s Paradox is at play : [W]ithin the 10-59 age band, the average unvaccinated person is much younger than the average vaccinated person, and therefore has a lower death rate. Tags: coronavirus , Simpson's Paradox , vaccination.

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IBM Journey to AI blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

McDonald’s is building AI solutions for customer care with IBM Watson AI technology and NLP to accelerate the development of its automated order taking (AOT) technology. For example, Amazon reminds customers to reorder their most often-purchased products, and shows them related products or suggestions.

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