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 paves the way for its use among the general public in the near future. This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking.

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Biology Agriculture Engineering Critical Thinking 84

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon. So we’ve been wondering: What happened to the public belief in college? It could be mathematics, it could be chess, it could be novel writing, and it could be science.

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Finance Economics Argumentation Innovation 296

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

public schools are English Language Learners (ELLs). Mathematical Language Routines – Facilitating Student Ideas and Language: Stronger and Clearer Each Time. Mathematical Language Routines – Developing Student Abilities to Critique and Clarify the Reasoning of Others. Mathematical Language Routines [link].

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 23, 2023

And for example doing a very simple piece of machine learning , we again get a symbolic object which can be used as a function and applied to an argument to get a result: And so it is with LLMFunction. By giving a second argument to LLMFunction you can say you want actual, structured computable output. can be used.

Technology 69

Technology Argumentation Computer Publication 69

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

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? are Comap and ComapApply.

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Futurum

MAY 11, 2023

However, since the 1990s, public attitudes towards gay rights in the US have undergone a monumental shift. Professor Michael Rosenfeld , a sociologist at Stanford University , has studied this dramatic change in public opinion. Most public attitudes remain relatively stable over time and social change is a slow process.

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Equality Social Sciences Science Sciences 57

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The entire section is worth reading in its entirety, especially if you’ve been thinking you need more straw-man arguments in your life, but I will focus on the part where I show up on page 14. Then they say: However, Talbert says the Khan Academy can never replace an actual class on mathematics.

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Argumentation Curriculum Research Research 52

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It’s a story I’ve told elsewhere , but one of the important elements for our purposes here is that in designing the system I called SMP (for “Symbolic Manipulation Program”) I ended up digging deeply into the foundations of computation, and its connections to areas like mathematical logic.

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Physics Computer Mathematics Science 94

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

I first met Ed in 1982—on an island in the Caribbean he had bought with money from taking public a tech company he’d founded. But Ed Fredkin’s first piece of public visibility seems to have come in 1948, when he was 13 years old—and it reminds me so much of many of Ed’s later “self-imposed” adventures.

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Computer Physics Science Sciences 67

Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

My argument is that computer science was originally invented to be taught to everyone, but not for economic advantage. Forsythe argued (in a 1968 article) that the most valuable parts of a scientific or technical education were facility with natural language, mathematics, and computer science. It was an amazing event.

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Computer Science Computer Science Sciences 140

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 20, 2021

Version 1 of Mathematica was billed as “A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer” , and—for more than three decades—in every new version of Wolfram Language and Mathematica there’ve been innovations in “doing mathematics by computer”. Sometimes the result involves explicit mathematical functions: &#10005. For Version 12.3

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