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Morph with the wind: shape-changing buildings

Futurum

. – Different engineering degrees have different requirements, but a strong background in mathematics is almost always beneficial, followed by physics, chemistry and computer science. I learned web design and computer programming in my early high school days, and was hired as a junior web developer not long after.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Because for some reason—that maybe one day we’ll have a scientific-style understanding of—if we always pick the highest-ranked word, we’ll typically get a very “flat” essay, that never seems to “show any creativity” (and even sometimes repeats word for word).

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Meanwhile, the general methodology of searching the computational universe for useful programs is something that has continued to grow. And although the details are more complicated, the whole notion of deep learning in neural nets can also be thought of as related. The binding was Smythe sewn.”

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