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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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Engineering applies science and mathematics to adapt and transform matter and energy for the benefit of people,” says Davis. Engineering applies science and mathematics to adapt and transform matter and energy for the benefit of people,” says Davis. I think it came from two primary sources. Download the article.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

But what I want to do here is to discuss what amount to deeper questions about AI in science. Three centuries ago science was transformed by the idea of representing the world using mathematics. A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena.

Science 122
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What lessons can we learn from past pandemics?

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Their research sheds light on the significant role that social inequalities play in determining the outcomes of a pandemic. In light of the social inequalities highlighted by COVID-19, this knowledge has never been more important. HOW DID SOCIAL INEQUALITIES INFLUENCE MORTALITY OUTCOMES? TALK LIKE A BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST.

Biology 85
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

Energy 88
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

It explains that III has four divisions: Mathematical and Programming Services, Behavioral Science, Operations, and “New York”. So what happened is Marvin [Minsky] and I basically fleshed out the idea of a mathematical thing. It says that “From a one-man operation [in 1962], I.I.I. And it was agreed that we would do it.