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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

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Literacy skills have a profound impact on a person’s life,” says Dr Jacqueline Cummine, a professor at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine – Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Alberta. They won first place for Outstanding Communication! (© Do you have a question for Jacqueline?

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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

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Published: Access to quality healthcare is a basic human right. Intelligent systems can also facilitate better communication and collaboration between healthcare teams. This could be particularly important in areas that lack access to sufficient healthcare facilities, or during emergencies, such as natural disasters and pandemics.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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When researchers visit the facility to capture images, they are supported by scientists, including research software engineers who help them process their data and access software. Once this is done, the CTC video footage will be accessible to artificial intelligence image analysis techniques.

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

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Looking forward Jin’s team is currently investigating the fine but critical details of cellular science. “My My team is trying to understand how cells function, how they metabolise, and how the organelles within cells work together and communicate with one another,” he says. “In My father inspired me to be creative and innovative.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Because for some reason—that maybe one day we’ll have a scientific-style understanding of—if we always pick the highest-ranked word, we’ll typically get a very “flat” essay, that never seems to “show any creativity” (and even sometimes repeats word for word). Nontrivial mathematics is one big example.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

People might say: “Computers can never show creativity or originality”. Processes in nature—like, for example, the weather—can be thought of as corresponding to computations. Yes, we can do natural science to figure out some aspects of what’s going to happen. So what’s left? So we won’t be able to readily predict them.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”. Whatever the decision may be, lasting gain will accrue to us from such a proceeding, since thereby we serve the chief end of natural science the enlargement of our stock of knowledge. He ends his piece with: In (2) the hedging is interesting.

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