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Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies

ED Surge

Paul, who says she reads academic journal articles for fun, first encountered this argument when she came across a 1998 paper by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, who argued that the human mind extends into the world around it. They don't have equal access to helpful mentors or really skilled teachers or motivated peers.

Physics 243
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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

ED Surge

Universities generally cover a wide range of subjects, focused on an academic field, say mathematics or computer science. And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low.

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Storage solutions: can we reimagine the trade-offs that limit flash storage devices?

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TALK LIKE A… COMPUTER ENGINEER. PERFORMANCE – the speed at which data in a storage device can be accessed (latency) or how much data can be accessed in a given time (throughput). Kim, an assistant professor at the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University in the US. Dr Bryan S.

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The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language

Stephen Wolfram

And for example doing a very simple piece of machine learning , we again get a symbolic object which can be used as a function and applied to an argument to get a result: And so it is with LLMFunction. By giving a second argument to LLMFunction you can say you want actual, structured computable output.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas.

Economics 111
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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

At a very practical level, for example, LLMs provide a new kind of linguistic interface to the computational capabilities that we’ve spent so long building in the Wolfram Language. Should we think of it essentially as a practical tool for accessing existing methods, or does it provide something fundamentally new for science?

Science 122
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How can first-year STEM university students be better supported?

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Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports. Barbara and Olivia’s top tips 1.

Biology 81