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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Ben and Julia found that COASST participants improve their identification accuracy over time – a result of repeated and consistent identification practice and engagement with COASST staff who train and provide opportunities to learn. It also has a page specifically on marine ecology.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But it also highlights how significant our specifics—our particular history, biology, etc.—are. And in biology it shows up as some structure (ribosome, cell, wing, etc.) This broad equivalence is important in being able to make very general scientific statements (like the existence of computational irreducibility).

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

But say all we’ve got is the data, and we don’t know what underlying laws govern it. And in fact, much like with the “ deep-learning breakthrough of 2012 ” it may be that such incremental modification will effectively be easier in more complicated cases than in simple ones.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

What about systems that adapt or learn? 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. There were times when the things I wanted to know were still entangled in government or other secrecy.

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