Futurum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

At the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in the US, biologists Barbara Barnhart and Dr Olivia Long are using their Science Seminar programme to ease this transition for first year students studying biology, chemistry and biochemistry degrees. What do students learn from studying this?

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

One of the most challenging problems in biology is understanding what motivates animals to perform such behaviours. You will only ever have direct, conscious access to your own mind, so how do you know that the people around you (who you think have minds) are not just sophisticated zombies or robots?

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But in 1798 Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753–1814) measured the heat produced by the mechanical process of boring a cannon, and began to make the argument that, in contradiction to the caloric theory, there was actually some kind of correspondence between mechanical energy and amount of heat.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

Should we think of it essentially as a practical tool for accessing existing methods, or does it provide something fundamentally new for science? of what’s now Wolfram Language —we were trying to develop algorithms to compute hundreds of mathematical special functions over very broad ranges of arguments. So how does AI stack up?

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

But beginning a little more than a century ago there emerged the idea that one could build mathematics purely from formal axioms, without necessarily any reference to what is accessible to sensory experience. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. But what can we do with this statement? &#10005.

Mathematics 120

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. The energy of the particles is indicated here by the size of the “token dots”: Continuing this a few more steps we get: At the beginning we started with all particles having equal energies.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 17, 2021

In the basic definition of a standard cellular automaton, the rule “takes its arguments” in a definite order. And in fact such probabilities tend to have the effect of hiding whatever complexity is intrinsically produced—even if they do “smooth out average behavior” to make things more accessible to traditional mathematical methods.

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