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2024 Spotlight: Women Leading the Way in STEM

STEM Sport

There is a constant, necessary push to ensure the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) workforce has diverse representation across gender, socioeconomic status, and race. This diversity in the workforce is what allows this workforce to continue thinking innovatively and in the best interest of the public as a whole.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Published: At Furman University in the US, Dr Ben Haywood and Professor Julia Parrish from the University of Washington are studying how citizen science programmes impact the relationships participants have with the places and ecology they study which might, in turn, increase scientific literacy. Why is citizen science important?

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Figuring out more and more science. And painstakingly laying out page after page of what on May 14, 2002, would be published as A New Kind of Science. I’ve written before (even in the book itself ) about the intellectual journey involved in the creation of A New Kind of Science. Developing new kinds of computational diagrams.

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

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In recent years, BCIs have moved from science fiction to something that could have real potential. The accuracy of machine learning provides another limitation, though this is a rapidly advancing field. Fields of research: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs). Download the article.

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

Stephen Wolfram

My goal here is to explore some of the science, technology—and philosophy—of what we can expect from AIs. And in what follows we’ll see over and over again that what might at first essentially seem like practical matters of technology quickly get enmeshed with deep questions of science and philosophy. So what is ChatGPT ?

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Or you could do what is the essence of theoretical science: make a model that gives some kind of procedure for computing the answer rather than just measuring and remembering each case. Well, you could just measure it in each case and make a table of the results. OK, but how does a neural net like this “recognize things”?

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