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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

STEM Sport

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.

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Behind the screens: the crystals that flow like rain down a windowpane

Futurum

He uses these key factors to construct mathematical models that capture the key physical effects of nematic behaviour. Everything in natural science can be reduced to physics. I think you are always a physicist, whatever field of science you work in. COMBINING EXPERIMENTS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELS.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

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. In some ways it’s a bit like our efforts to construct the ruliad. The whole continuum of all real numbers is “from the outside” in many ways a simple construct.

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

Stephen Wolfram

For three centuries theoretical models had been based on the fairly narrow set of constructs provided by mathematical equations, and particularly calculus. Sometimes they have been based on constructing programs to reproduce behavior. Computer science is about programs and computations that we humans construct for certain purposes.

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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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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.

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

Futurum

Mathematically, these records make it fairly easy to construct a supply chain network,” says Zach. These data mostly come from compliance reports that companies must submit to be registered on the stock market. In these reports, companies are required to disclose their major suppliers and customers.