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Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science

Futurum

Fields and fungicides: mixing microbiology and social science. THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. We have to consider farmers’ motivators from a social science perspective,” says human geographer Dr Ray Chan. THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. FUNDERS : Wellcome Trust, Cabot Innovation Fund.

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Cyber security for the AI age

Futurum

Digitalisation is helping organisations to enhance communication and collaboration efforts, to innovate, and to stay competitive,” says Dr Burcu Bulgurcu, a cyber security researcher at Toronto Metropolitan University. Today’s sophisticated attacks cannot be addressed with a one-dimensional approach.”

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Our school approach in teaching sustainability

Scientix

We work continuously to secure and coordinate support that targets academic and non-academic barriers to achievement in order to promote improved outcomes for students, families, and communities. Activities will be carried out to improve students’ social, emotional, analytical thinking, and creativity skills.

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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. Over the years that followed there were all sorts of engineering innovations that increased the efficiency of steam engines. Coarse-grained variables. Microscopic representation of mechanical work.

Energy 88
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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

If we want to find a rule that “lives” for exactly 50 steps, we define “best” to be the one that minimizes a “loss function” equal to the distance from 50 of the number of steps a rule actually “lives”. But what happens with other paths? As we mentioned above, though, with more “dimensions” one’s less likely to get stuck.

Science 122
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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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