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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! (©

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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

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Intelligent systems can also facilitate better communication and collaboration between healthcare teams. What successes has this project achieved so far? “We This method also significantly reduced the time and resources needed to achieve successful detection. Practise your communication skills. Persevere and be resilient.

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How can we make STEM subjects more engaging for students?

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This usually means a university student who is in training to become a teacher Self-learning — an approach to learning where students teach themselves by following instructions and figuring out answers on their own STEM — subjects related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics When did you last make something in school?

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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 I think I’ve achieved a lot. It’s very exciting!”

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

Stephen Wolfram

Given a defined “goal”, an AI can automatically work towards achieving it. Most of our existing intuition about “machinery” and “automation” comes from a kind of “clockwork” view of engineering—in which we specifically build systems component by component to achieve objectives we want. And that’s where we humans come in.

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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).

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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. Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved.

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