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Educators Have Some Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the Metaverse

ED Surge

That's not what real learning is about. Real learning is deep learning, not superficial learning. I think the opportunities for deep learning are endless. We want it to be equitable—so it's accessible by all kids and not just kids who can afford it. And it's more than just reading and math.

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5 Offbeat STEM Careers for the Curious and Adventurous Ones

Career in STEM

From music machine learning engineers to storm trackers, these careers may not be as well-known, but they offer a unique blend of creativity and technical skill that can be incredibly rewarding. Music Machine Learning Engineer. A patent attorney is a legal professional who specializes in obtaining and enforcing patents.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

Futurum

Ben and Julia found that COASST participants improve their identification accuracy over time – a result of repeated and consistent identification practice and engagement with COASST staff who train and provide opportunities to learn. I became fascinated with farming and growing food. How did Julia become a marine ecologist? “I

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

People might say: “Computers can never show creativity or originality”. But actual evolution seems more like deep learning with a large neural net—where one’s effectively operating in an extremely high-dimensional space where there’s typically always a “way to get there from here”, at least given enough time. (And,

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

Because for some reason—that maybe one day we’ll have a scientific-style understanding of—if we always pick the highest-ranked word, we’ll typically get a very “flat” essay, that never seems to “show any creativity” (and even sometimes repeats word for word).

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

There were times when the things I wanted to know were still entangled in government or other secrecy. In other cases we had to search government records, ask institutions, or find relatives or other personal contacts. For ones who were alive we just sent them email, usually getting helpful (if sometimes witty) responses.

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