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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

Study social science subjects at school to learn about the human side of engineering challenges. I think it came from two primary sources. My trips to rural areas in the highlands of Cusco helped me understand the link between social exclusion and poverty. LATRINE – a very simple toilet facility.

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What lessons can we learn from past pandemics?

Futurum

Their research sheds light on the significant role that social inequalities play in determining the outcomes of a pandemic. In light of the social inequalities highlighted by COVID-19, this knowledge has never been more important. HOW DID SOCIAL INEQUALITIES INFLUENCE MORTALITY OUTCOMES? TALK LIKE A BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST.

Biology 85
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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

I soon realised I was more interested in biology because you can see the systems you are working with, so I switched degrees. I began my career in the technical side of GIS, but I have been wooed to the social sciences. In high school, I focused on math and science as my main interests were in geometry and biology.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

We know the ones that correspond to “known science”. Solving Equations with AI In traditional mathematical science the typical setup is: here are some equations for a system; solve them to find out how the system behaves. So why does this work? Probably it’s because neural nets capture the architectural essence of actual brains.

Science 122
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved. It’s exciting now, of course, to be able to use the latest 21st-century ideas to take another step.

Energy 88
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Ed was never officially a “test pilot”, but he told me stories about figuring out how to take his plane higher than anyone else—and achieving weightlessness by flying his plane in a perfect free-fall trajectory by maintaining an eraser floating in midair in front of him.