Futurum

APRIL 12, 2023

I started studying architecture, but after two weeks, I realised I didn’t want to study buildings. I wanted to study something living, so I switched to an animal science program. One of the things I love most about science, and GIS and ecology in particular, is that it’s a creative process.

Geography 98

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. People might say: “Computers can never show creativity or originality”. There are things we “just want to do”—as a “social matter”, for “entertainment”, for “personal satisfaction”, etc. It’s very much like with ChatGPT.

Computer 106

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

But just by systematic enumeration the computer was able to find what seemed to me like a very “creative” result. Perhaps even the architecture of the network can change. Probably it’s because neural nets capture the architectural essence of actual brains. We know the ones that correspond to “known science”.

Science 124

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

When Ed arrived at BU he found he was assigned to an office with a certain Gerard ‘t Hooft —who happens to be one of the more creative and productive theoretical physicists of the past half-century (and would win a Nobel Prize in 1999 for his efforts).

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