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The slow art of letting the worthless fall through and keeping what matters.
means To pass a substance through a sieve to separate the fine from the coarse, or, by extension, to examine something carefully to pick out what's worth keeping.
from From Old English 'siftan,' to strain through a sieve — and indeed 'sift' and 'sieve' are blood relatives, both descended from a Germanic root tied to the mesh that lets the small stuff through. The kitchen sense came first; the figurative 'sifting through evidence' is the same gesture, just done with the mind instead of the wrist.
- flour reason
- Sifting adds air, making cakes lighter and softer
- gold rush
- Panning gold is sifting riverbed for heavy flecks
- word root
- From Old English siftan, related to sieve
- data age
- Algorithms now sift petabytes humans never could
flour sifter — kitchen tool with a&j mesh screen, used since 1800s to aerate flour and break clumps
sift science — san francisco fraud detection company acquired by stripe in 2018 for machine learning-based risk analysis