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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

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Dr Narges Armanfard from McGill University and Mila Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, Canada, has set up iSMART Lab to develop intelligent computer systems that can support medical professionals. Patient well-being Intelligent systems are innovative computer systems that can perceive and respond to the world around them.

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Can modern technology uncover the secrets of evolution?

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Micro-computed tomography (μCT) — a 3D imaging technique that uses X-rays to see inside objects. After re-assembling the broken rocks containing Elgin Reptile specimens, he scans them using micro-computed tomography (μCT). “A Research project : Using micro-computed tomography to uncover the secrets of the Elgin Reptiles.

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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

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. Cryptography.

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. But it wasn’t long before I started hearing mentions that somewhere at the school there was a computer. I’d seen a computer in real life only once—when I was 10 years old, and from a distance. How Did We Get Here?

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work?

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