National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In a study with 140 students in high school biology classrooms (Cavallo, 1994), teachers were asked to rate each of their students as a rote learner (surface learning, learns by memorizing) or a meaningful learner (deep structured learning, learns by connecting concepts and making sense of concepts). A female friendly science classroom.

Biology 52

Biology Achievement Physics Mathematics 52

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena. Once again, I had no idea this was “out there”, and certainly I would never have been able to construct it myself. There is, however, a subtlety here. Can AI Predict What Will Happen?

Science 122

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Futurum

APRIL 12, 2023

Whenever anyone wants to build anything, they must submit an environmental impact statement to show how the environmental impacts of the construction will be minimised. The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House.

Geography 98

Geography Publication Government Science 98

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Each of them has already earned at least 45 college credits—equal to about three semesters—and desires to complete a degree. After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. That they devote days, years, lifetimes to understanding a sliver of biology, physics, history.

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Futurum

AUGUST 11, 2022

LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). Raja was part of the team that created the first ever digital photo mosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, constructed by stitching together 57 images taken by a ground-based telescope. SPECTROSCOPY – the study of the wavelengths of light from a star.

Astronomy 98

Astronomy Equality Research Research 98

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

One of the notable features of a system like ChatGPT is that it isn’t constructed in an “understand-every-step” traditional engineering way. One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature.

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Computer Biology Mathematics Economics 105

Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. In some ways it’s a bit like our efforts to construct the ruliad. The whole continuum of all real numbers is “from the outside” in many ways a simple construct.

Physics 121

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

When most working mathematicians do mathematics it seems to be typical for them to reason as if the constructs they’re dealing with (whether they be numbers or sets or whatever) are “real things”. And we can think of that ultimate machine code as operating on things that are in effect just abstract constructs—very much like in mathematics.

Mathematics 120

Mathematics Physics Computer Algebra 120

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But it is only now—with ideas that have emerged from our Physics Project —that I think I can pull all the pieces together and finally be able to construct a proper framework to explain why—and to what extent—the Second Law is true. In some types of rules it’s basically always there , by construction.

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Computer Energy Physics Construction 92

Futurum

APRIL 19, 2023

A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. Nanoscientists manipulate materials at the atomic and molecular level, and thus nanoscience merges physics, chemistry, materials science and biology,” explains Susanne. How small are things at the nanoscale?

Chemistry 52

Chemistry Biology Physics Research 52

Chillax Science

MAY 19, 2021

Constructing a model of a male’s reproductive system is equally simple. Using two equal pieces of aluminum foil crumble them into balls to represent the testis. Using two equal size pipe cleaners spiral them and tape them to each side of the styrofoam ball. How to Build the Model. You are almost there!

Engineering 52

Engineering Equality Construction Teaching 52

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. But what’s important for our purposes here is that in the setup Carnot constructed he basically ended up introducing the Second Law.

Energy 88

Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How Observers Construct Their Perceived Reality Our view of the world is ultimately determined by what we observe of it. We take what’s “out there in the world” and in effect “construct our perceived reality” by our operation as observers. But in observer theory what we want to do is just characterize the equivalencing that’s achieved.

Physics 120

Physics Mathematics Computer Communications 120

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 17, 2021

And for example in 1978 the following “radius 3” rule (operating on size-7 neighborhoods) was constructed (and we’ll call it the “GKL rule”): &#10005. But in the 1980s a complicated cellular automaton was constructed that it was possible to prove would not show such behavior. But it turns out that this isn’t true.

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STEMx

AUGUST 3, 2018

I am an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Biology at Miami University, where I teach the Earth Expedition to the Big Island of Hawaii, a five-unit graduate field course focused on saving species. . . Equally challenging is the predicament of the American science teacher.

Biology 40

Biology Science Sciences Research 40

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 13, 2022

And as part of that, I was curious what kinds of patterns people had in fact constructed from rules, for art or otherwise. But that email was right before I discovered yet more kinds of computational systems to explore, and before I’d understood applications to biology, and physics, and mathematics, and so on. &#10005.

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