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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

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“For the line drawings, we traced the contours with custom-made computer vision algorithms,” says Dirk. “We We wanted to see whether there were enough consistent features in each category for the computer to be able to accurately categorise any one image.” If the computer had only guessed randomly, it would have had an accuracy of 17%.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

And at first I did so in the main scientific paradigm I knew : models based on mathematics and mathematical equations. But in a quirk of history that I now realize had tremendous significance, I had just spent a couple of years creating a big computer system that was ultimately a direct forerunner of our modern Wolfram Language.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And all I’ll be able to do here is give a snapshot of my current thinking—which will inevitably be incomplete—not least because, as I’ll discuss, trying to predict how history in an area like this will unfold is something that runs straight into an issue of basic science: the phenomenon of computational irreducibility.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Scientific model — a conceptual or mathematical representation of a real-world phenomenon that allows scientists to study the phenomenon in more detail. Software — a set of instructions, scripts or programmes that are used to operate computers and perform specific tasks. What is research computing? billion lightyears.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. 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. This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1.

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