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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

STEM Sport

Focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities can be an excellent strategy to keep students engaged in winter. Do it Yourself (DIY) Coding Games In our digital age, coding has become a fundamental skill, essential for navigating the rapidly evolving technological landscape.

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Dogs of Science: Discoveries & Companionship

STEMe

— New York, NY Throughout history, dogs have been remembered for their loyal and hardworking nature. However, dogs have played a separate but equally important role in science as well. Without dogs, we may not have some of the advanced knowledge and technology that we take for granted today.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

Based on a talk at Numerous Numerosity: An interdisciplinary meeting on the notions of cardinality, ordinality and arithmetic across the sciences. Surely, one might think, to have all that technology they must have the idea of numbers. To us numbers seem so natural—and “obvious”—that it’s hard to imagine everyone wouldn’t have them.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. Then (by the assumed properties of equality) it follows that. But it’s a fundamental claim that we’re making—that can be thought of as a matter of natural science—that in our universe only computation can occur, not hypercomputation.

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

Stephen Wolfram

So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this go? My goal here is to explore some of the science, technology—and philosophy—of what we can expect from AIs. How does all this relate to technology? Well, technology is about taking what’s out there in the world, and harnessing it for human purposes.

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

Stephen Wolfram

In the case of the Second Law it’s crucial that we only get to track coarse-grained features of a gas—as we humans with our current technology typically do. In more explicit form we could write this as Equal [f[x_, y_], f[f[y_, x_],y_]] —where Equal ( ) has the “known meaning” of representing equality. &#10005.

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

Stephen Wolfram

This proof is easily obtained, however, by the method which I am about to explain… (He gives a long footnote explaining why Maxwell might be wrong, talking about how a sequence of collisions might lead to a “cycle of velocity states”—which Maxwell hasn’t proved will be traversed with equal probability in each direction.

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