STEM Sport
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Below are five engineering activities that use everyday items: Popsicle Stick Bridges: Use popsicle sticks and glue to construct bridges. This experiment teaches about impact forces and materials science. This is a fun way to explore geometric shapes and stability in construction.
Stephen Wolfram
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. In some ways it’s a bit like our efforts to construct the ruliad.
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Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 7, 2022
When most working mathematicians do mathematics it seems to be typical for them to reason as if the constructs they’re dealing with (whether they be numbers or sets or whatever) are “real things”. And we can think of that ultimate machine code as operating on things that are in effect just abstract constructs—very much like in mathematics.
Stephen Wolfram
MAY 25, 2021
Presumably it’s that we can sample space without having to think about time, or in other words, that we can consistently construct a stable notion of space. No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on. Will there still be “human-level descriptions” that involve numbers?
Stephen Wolfram
JANUARY 31, 2023
It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. But what’s important for our purposes here is that in the setup Carnot constructed he basically ended up introducing the Second Law.
Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 15, 2023
One of the notable features of a system like ChatGPT is that it isn’t constructed in an “understand-every-step” traditional engineering way. One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature.
STEMx
AUGUST 3, 2018
Documented trends also demonstrate an overall national decline in completion of natural science degrees, in the granting of doctoral degrees in the sciences, in the authoring of scientific papers and in our share of international patents. . Equally challenging is the predicament of the American science teacher.
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