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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

Futurum

In goal-based training, individuals set their own goals associated with reading and we design activities to help them achieve them.” There is a lot of ‘tradition’ with regards to ideas and approaches, which I feel can sometimes impede our ability to move science forward efficiently.

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How can we make STEM subjects more engaging for students?

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for STEM achieved so far? The room allows for a lot of flexible seating opportunities. My proudest education achievement is passing the Teaching Certification Exam. What are your proudest career achievements so far? What has T.I.M.E The partnerships that T.I.M.E As a result, I got to know and work with all my classmates.

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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

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Though we work long and sometimes unsociable hours, we have a good degree of flexibility. “I I think I’ve achieved a lot. Their elasticity changes, and the cells become more flexible, helping them to detach from the tumour and spread throughout the body.” Flexibility and adaptability are critically important. •

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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.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

The fundamental idea of neural nets is to create a flexible “computing fabric” out of a large number of simple (essentially identical) components—and to have this “fabric” be one that can be incrementally modified to learn from examples. Almost certainly, I think.

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

And in what follows we’ll see the great power that arises from using this to combine the achievements and intuitions of physics and mathematics—and how this lets us think about new “general laws of mathematics”, and view the ultimate foundations of mathematics in a different light. 3 | The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics.

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Urban farming for urban families

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To overcome this, they made the NEP dynamic and flexible so that it could be adapted depending on the age and interests of the students taking part. The liberal arts consist of the natural sciences, like biology, ecology and neuroscience, formal sciences, like physics and maths, social sciences, and the humanities.