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Best Teacher Supplies for Classroom (on Amazon)

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. He is investigating the connection between poor transport links and social inequality, and bringing sanitation to a remote community in the Andes. HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY?

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Can we use mud to understand climate change?

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CLIMATE MODEL – a computer programme that simulates how the Earth’s climate system – including the atmosphere and oceans – behaves. Oceans are a key part of the Earth’s climate system, responsible for transporting heat and storing carbon from the atmosphere, and several large ocean current systems contribute to this.

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STEM Statistics For 2023 (Education, Diversity, Careers)

The Maker Mom

Technological positions are leading the charge for growth, and people who choose to specialize in computer and mathematical degrees will stand to gain a unique advantage. Women in computer and mathematics careers only account for 25.2% For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce.

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

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Scientific simulations — an advanced type of computational model that not only represents a real-world phenomenon, but aims to predict how the phenomenon might change under different conditions or parameters. Software — a set of instructions, scripts or programmes that are used to operate computers and perform specific tasks.

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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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