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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

Futurum

There are many branches of maths, including algebra, geometry, calculus and statistics. HOW CAN MATHS SOLVE REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES? There are so many applications of math!” Math really is everywhere!” If you know math, it gives you incredible power to contribute to all kinds of fields.”. says Zach. “If

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

I could write down equations and do math. So for me it was obvious: if I couldn’t figure out things myself with math, I should use a computer. It wasn’t something one could readily see with math. But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

It’s not obvious that it would be feasible to find the path of the steepest descent on the “weight landscape” But calculus comes to the rescue. It turns out that the chain rule of calculus in effect lets us “unravel” the operations done by successive layers in the neural net.

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