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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

Futurum

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 paves the way for its use among the general public in the near future.

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How machine learning is revolutionising materials science

Futurum

Dane notes that there are few undergraduate courses specific to MS&E but says that as well as materials science, courses in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry or physics are often relevant. • How did Dane become a materials scientist and engineer? Ryan’s top tips 1.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

There’s a public Prompt Repository that so far has several hundred curated prompts. 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? is PositionSmallest. is PositionSmallest.

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

In July I was making “encryption-friendly” pictures of rule 30: But what Jack and I were most interested in was doing something more “cryptographically sophisticated”, and in particular inventing a practical public-key cryptosystem based on cellular automata. And it’s basically still not been figured out (and maybe it’s actually impossible).

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