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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

Futurum

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! (©

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

Futurum

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 The other potential limitation is people.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

But the lesson of the past several hundred years of science is that there are things that can be figured out by formal processes, but aren’t readily accessible to immediate human thinking. In the future, will there be fundamentally better ways to train neural nets—or generally do what neural nets do? Almost certainly, I think.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”. Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”.

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