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How can first-year STEM university students be better supported?

Futurum

With this information, we created a variety of objectives, ranging from communication skills and respect for community, to leadership skills and critical thinking,” says Olivia. These activities give students opportunities to exchange ideas, learn from each other, communicate and develop teamwork skills,” explains Olivia.

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Let’s Talk About Habits of Mind

Ask a Tech Teacher

In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks. Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision. Thinking Flexibly.

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

too—delivering the latest from our long-term research and development pipeline. Across the 35 years since Version 1 we’ve been able to continue accelerating our research and development process, year by year building on the functionality and automation we’ve created. But while LLMs are “the biggest single story” in Version 13.3,

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra. And the only conclusion we can arrive at is that a person can’t do this much algebra with the hope of getting it right.” The article said that the “MAC” stood either for “Multiple Access Computer” or “Machine-Aided Cognition”.

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The heart of the loop: Reattempts without penalty

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

But if you were reading a research article and the author used a sample size of n = 1, how would you react? An argument for traditional grading goes like this: Sure, a single assessment might have a grade on it that doesn't accurately reflect student understanding. It makes sense as long as you don't think about it.

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Launching Version 12.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

we’re connecting to “Descartes-style” analytic geometry, converting geometric descriptions to algebraic formulas. Given three symbolically specified points, GeometricTest can give the algebraic condition for them to be collinear: &#10005. Tree takes two arguments: a “payload” (which can be any expression), and a list of subtrees.

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The Problem of Distributed Consensus

Stephen Wolfram

In the basic definition of a standard cellular automaton, the rule “takes its arguments” in a definite order. But what kind of integro-differential-algebraic equation can reproduce the time evolution isn’t clear. RandomGraph[{20, 40}, EdgeStyle -> Gray, VertexStyle -> Table[i -> (RandomInteger[] /. {0