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What did human communities look like 20,000 years ago?

Futurum

Their studies indicate this area was intensively occupied by hunter-gatherers, who were responsible for the birth of architecture in the region. Evidence was found of fire pits surrounded by small post holes, too small for an architectural structure. “We THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHITECTURE. THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHITECTURE.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

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. I soon realised I was more interested in biology because you can see the systems you are working with, so I switched degrees.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

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”. But one can’t have a truly “model-less model”. But the whole neural net setup inevitably defines an ultimate underlying model.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

Futurum

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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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. There are things we “just want to do”—as a “social matter”, for “entertainment”, for “personal satisfaction”, etc. And in biology it shows up as some structure (ribosome, cell, wing, etc.) It’s very much like with ChatGPT.

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

Stephen Wolfram

There’ll be more specialized sessions exploring > implications and applications in areas such as computer science, > biology, social science, physics, mathematics, philosophy, and future > of technology.