Futurum

APRIL 18, 2023

Pathway from school to materials science and engineering • Ryan suggests physics and chemistry as the subjects most relevant for MS&E. I had great arguments about mathematical proofs with my amazing grade school maths teachers and was a regular at Boston’s science museum.

Science 98

Science Sciences Learning Artificial Intelligence 98

Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I strongly believe that the world needs engineers with strong critical thinking skills, who know how to ask questions, understand bias, construct and evaluate arguments, and think comprehensively and creatively. This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking.

Biology 84

Biology Agriculture Engineering Critical Thinking 84

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

The function Map takes a function f and “maps it” over a list: Comap does the “mathematically co-” version of this, taking a list of functions and “comapping” them onto a single argument: Why is this useful? But we wanted to be able to compute hundreds of different functions to arbitrary precision for any complex values of their arguments.

Computer 102

Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 102

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I think Yves Pomeau already had a theoretical argument for this, but as far as I was concerned, it was (at least at first) just a “next thing to try”. That’s not something ordinary chemistry—dealing for example with liquid-phase reactions—tends to consider important. But just what might the “choreography” of molecules be like?

Physics 95

Physics Computer Mathematics Science 95