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a line) Quantify — to measure the number or amount of something To what extent can art be used to communicate specific emotions? We explored how people use associations with colours and line properties to communicate emotions,” says Dr Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychology. “In

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And one of the great feelings of power has been that even in fields—like the social sciences—where there haven’t really been much more than “verbal” models before, it’s now appeared possible to get models that at least seem much more “scientific”. In A New Kind of Science I cataloged and studied minimal kinds of models of many types.

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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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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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