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

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Mathematically, these records make it fairly easy to construct a supply chain network,” says Zach. 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?

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

It turns out that it’s possible to construct such a function. Later, we’ll talk about how such a function can be constructed, and the idea of neural nets. And the nontrivial scientific fact is that for an image-recognition task like this we now basically know how to construct functions that do this.

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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. Sometimes they have been based on constructing programs to reproduce behavior.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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As a result, a new discipline, known as research computing, has emerged to apply computers, not just software, to research including to help scientists capture images, construct models, which are turned into simulations, and analyse results. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

One of the notable features of a system like ChatGPT is that it isn’t constructed in an “understand-every-step” traditional engineering way. There’s one category that in many ways seems surprising to still be “with us”: jobs that involve lots of mechanical manipulation, like construction, fulfillment, food preparation, etc.

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