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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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Or perhaps, amidst a particularly challenging calculus problem, you’ve questioned how this abstract world of numbers and symbols could possibly influence your future career? College and Mathematics: Challenges The Complexity Cliff Remember the first time you looked at a calculus problem in college? Well, you’re not alone.

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Why Choose STEM? The Best STEM Careers for 2018

CTE Learning

stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. As a result, the practice of artificial intelligence, robotics, and cyber security have become critically important. Out of all the STEM categories, Technology and Engineering tend to have an upper hand when it comes to annual salary. The acronym “S.T.E.M.”

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

I should say at the outset that I’m going to focus on the big picture of what’s going on—and while I’ll mention some engineering details, I won’t get deeply into them. It turns out that the chain rule of calculus in effect lets us “unravel” the operations done by successive layers in the neural net.

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ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

Stephen Wolfram

Thanks to some heroic software engineering by our team and by OpenAI , ChatGPT can now call on Wolfram|Alpha—and Wolfram Language as well—to give it what we might think of as “computational superpowers”. Wolfram Language has a very open architecture, where a user can add or modify pretty much whatever they want.

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

Stephen Wolfram

It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). His father ’s university engineering studies had been cut short by the Russian Revolution, and he now had a one-man wholesale electronic parts business. Petersburg; his mother in Odessa ; they met in LA).