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

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains? At Brigham Young University in the US, Dr Zach Boyd is using his mathematical skills to determine how best to protect our supply chains. BUILDING MATHEMATICAL MODELS. Published: July 13, 2022. TALK LIKE A MATHEMATICIAN.

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

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However, the skills learnt from subjects such as mathematics and physics are everlasting and applicable to many different fields. I experienced collaborations between biology, engineering and social sciences with a playful attitude. Dirk’s top tip Take all the mathematics classes you can!

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How can intelligent systems revolutionise healthcare?

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Dr Narges Armanfard, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University and Mila Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, has established iSMART Lab to develop new healthcare technologies. The AI revolution “AI has the potential to revolutionise our lives in numerous positive ways,” says Narges.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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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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Dr Joanna Leng , from the University of Leeds in the UK, is a research software engineer who designs and develops the software that allows scientific imaging devices to be used to their full potential. TALK LIKE A RESEARCH SOFTWARE ENGINEER. One area of research computing that is in high demand is research software engineering.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

Fast numbers-based ways to do particular computations are often viewed as representing “ exact solutions ” to corresponding mathematical problems. Still, there is in a sense one other kind of computational reducibility that we do know about, and that’s been very widely used in mathematical science: the phenomenon of continuity.

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

I should say at the outset that I’m going to focus on the big picture of what’s going on—and while I’ll mention some engineering details, I won’t get deeply into them. Then we might make a mathematical guess, like that perhaps we should use a straight line as a model: We could pick different straight lines.

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