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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. These include stock market analysis, artificial intelligence, supply chain optimisation and medical engineering, but mathematicians can end up working anywhere! • WHAT DOES A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MATHEMATICIAN LOOK LIKE? says Zach. “If

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

Stephen Wolfram

For that was a time when the concepts of computing were first being worked out—and through approaches like cybernetics and the nascent area of artificial intelligence, people started exploring the broader scientific implications of computational ideas. In some ways, ruliology is like natural science.