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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

. – Different engineering degrees have different requirements, but a strong background in mathematics is almost always beneficial, followed by physics, chemistry and computer science. Read up on different engineering disciplines, what they entail, and what they can achieve. WHAT HELPED YOU TO ACHIEVE THIS RECOGNITION?

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

And in fact the big breakthrough in “deep learning” that occurred around 2011 was associated with the discovery that in some sense it can be easier to do (at least approximate) minimization when there are lots of weights involved than when there are fairly few.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

At the time, there was some fiddliness to these functions, and to making their output look good—though in later years what we learned from this was used to tune up the general look of built-in graphics in the Wolfram Language. But there’s a standard way to achieve the appearance of gray, by changing the local density of black and white.

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