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How can smart contact lenses monitor and treat eye conditions?

Futurum

Therefore, wearable biomedical devices must have mechanical softness, flexibility, stretchability and breathability, without side effects such as discomfort, pain or tissue damage.”. This means the sensors can exist on flexible, stretchable, transparent or biodegradable substrates, including soft contact lenses. Pinterest.

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A crisis of clarity: can defining biodiversity help us protect the natural world?

Futurum

FIELD OF RESEARCH: History and Philosophy of Biology. Charles focuses on the philosophy of one specific branch of science: biology. The philosophy of biology contemplates questions surrounding evolution, genetics, life and, more recently, humanity’s impact on the natural world. I think this work requires a lot of flexibility.

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Why Choose a STEM Career?

CTE Learning

Hospitals, governments, newsrooms, homes, and other workplaces depend on technology to communicate and run operations efficiently. Many designer prefer being freelancers as it allows them more flexibility to work and live where they want and to choose the projects and clients they want to work for.

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Why Choose a STEM Career?

CTE Learning

Hospitals, governments, newsrooms, homes, and other workplaces depend on technology to communicate and run operations efficiently. Many designer prefer being freelancers as it allows them more flexibility to work and live where they want and to choose the projects and clients they want to work for. Computer Engineer. Marketing Manager.

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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ??????

Stephen Wolfram

And it became clear that—yes, arguably in a return to the Egyptian hieroglyph style of communication—there was an almost infinite number of possible pictorial emoji that could be made, each of them being encoded as their own Unicode code point. Now we can use the path function to make a “spiralling” tour video: College Calculus.

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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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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”. Later he describes what he calls the “Principle of the Communication of Heat”.

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