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On the frontline of the biomedical revolution

Futurum

Though we work long and sometimes unsociable hours, we have a good degree of flexibility. “I Probes constructed from nanoparticles can enter cells themselves, attaching to proteins or other substances within the cell. Flexibility and adaptability are critically important. • I think I’ve achieved a lot. Practise your maths.

Biology 98
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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

It turns out that it’s possible to construct such a function. Later, we’ll talk about how such a function can be constructed, and the idea of neural nets. And the nontrivial scientific fact is that for an image-recognition task like this we now basically know how to construct functions that do this.

Computer 145
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How can we make STEM subjects more engaging for students?

Futurum

The room allows for a lot of flexible seating opportunities. I implement a constructiveness approach to teaching, and attempt to present material in a structured, yet engaging manner. Also, it enables the professors to give us interactive and hands-on learning experiences, which makes learning fun.

STEM 81
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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

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.

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

Stephen Wolfram

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.

Energy 89