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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

From an architectural standpoint, it is the part of the building that people will see, so its aesthetic traits are important. Buildings are also becoming taller and more flexible, as lighter building materials and more sophisticated designs are developed, but wind-induced vibrations only get stronger and more serious with height.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

And in fact the big breakthrough in “deep learning” that occurred around 2011 was associated with the discovery that in some sense it can be easier to do (at least approximate) minimization when there are lots of weights involved than when there are fairly few. There are several key parts. Almost certainly, I think.

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