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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

To overcome this, they made the NEP dynamic and flexible so that it could be adapted depending on the age and interests of the students taking part. Meet David I majored in anthropology and biology at university. Emmanuel and David wanted to interact with children and young people from a variety of age groups. It is very satisfying. •

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

Yes, there can be a lot of flexibility in this model. We know the ones that correspond to “known science”. Solving Equations with AI In traditional mathematical science the typical setup is: here are some equations for a system; solve them to find out how the system behaves. But one can’t have a truly “model-less model”.

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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”. And indeed, Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961), in his 1944 book What Is Life?

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