Futurum

OCTOBER 13, 2022

WHERE DOES OUR ENERGY COME FROM? The wind and sun are both renewable, and capturing their energy does not release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, so why bother developing new technology for the oceans where we have to deal with corrosive saltwater and challenging logistics of installation and maintenance?

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Aerospace Energy Engineering Physics 68

Futurum

JULY 5, 2022

EMPIRICAL DESIGN — an approach based on evidence and observation that does not try to fully understand how things work (e.g., ACTIVE INGREDIENT — a component of a material that is responsible for a particular effect or property. THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE — the state of a material or system being in chemical balance with its environment.

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Research Research Physics Science 85

Futurum

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Composite material — a substance that is made up of different components with different chemical and physical properties. In the area of complex engineering system designs, a systems and control engineering approach enables manufacturers to build a physically meaningful model of a system. Why is systems engineering important?

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Engineering Artificial Intelligence Robotics Physics 78

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

And to check myself I’ve been keen to know just where this conventional wisdom came from, how it’s been validated, and what might have made it go astray. This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. How Did We Get Here?

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Futurum

OCTOBER 19, 2022

INTERNET OF THINGS – the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. How can we make future places healthier spaces? DATA SCIENCE – encompasses preparing data for analysis, including cleansing, aggregating and manipulating the data to perform advanced data analysis.

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IoT Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Computer 78

Futurum

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

TALK LIKE AN … ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Alternating current (AC) — a form of current where electrical charges periodically reverse the direction of their motion Centrifugal force — an apparent outward force on an object that is moving in a circle. For example, a moving merry-go-round can make you feel like you are being propelled outwards.

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Energy Engineering Research Research 58

Futurum

JULY 13, 2022

Published: July 13, 2022. In recent years, global supply chains have faced disruptions from numerous causes, from a single ship blocking the Suez Canal to the international impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. At Brigham Young University in the US, Dr Zach Boyd is using his mathematical skills to determine how best to protect our supply chains.

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Mathematics Artificial Intelligence Math Research 82

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2016

Three pieces that you especially want to look for: a robust infrastructure–all these digital devices require an extended internet interface as well as sufficient bandwidth to transport all that data. Earth Day is April 22nd. Someone in your school, maybe the parent group, will raise the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom?

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Accessibility Transportation Curriculum Computer 150

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. The Path to a New Paradigm. The first, originating in antiquity, one might call the “structural paradigm”.

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Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 64

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus).

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Computer Physics Science Sciences 68

PCS Edventures

AUGUST 18, 2020

Learning does not need to grind to a halt — this is a time to adapt. The Individual STEM Kits fit any curriculum path and are malleable enough to adhere to any district plan. Education is in uncharted territory. What is education going to look like? And the worst part about these questions is we don’t know the answers.

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STEM Robotics Curriculum Physics 52

Futurum

APRIL 25, 2023

How does pre-birth milk expression help with breastfeeding? Does AME have positive effects? Published: The benefits of breastfeeding newborn infants are long-established. However, the idea of expressing milk while pregnant, before the baby is born, is a relatively new one. What is Jill’s research looking at?

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Research Research Science Sciences 63

Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

And, of course, today we can and do write perhaps a hundred times more extensive and detailed documentation than would have ever fit in the (printed) Mathematica Book of 1988. AtomLabelStyle. BondLabels. TreeTraversalOrder. IgnoreIsotopes. MinPointSeparation. TreeElementLabel. IgnoreStereochemistry. The March of Innovation Continues.

Construction 67

Construction Computer Physics Accessibility 67

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 13, 2022

My journey in science began in the early 1970s—and by the time I was 14 I’d already written three book-length “treatises” about physics (though these wouldn’t see the light of day for several more decades). But its creation took more than a decade of my life. Figuring out more and more science. We’d released Version 1.0

Science 63

Science Sciences Computer Physics 63

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. Why does the Second Law work? What does it really depend on? How Did We Get Here?

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Computer Energy Physics Construction 92

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Building on an earlier interest in space and spacecraft , I’d gotten very interested in physics, and was trying to read everything I could about it. There were several shelves of physics books at the local bookstore. The other books I’d read had all basically said “physics works like this”. How Did We Get Here? Then the third.

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Physics Computer Mathematics Science 95

Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. In the language of our Physics Project, it’s the ultimate limit of all rulial multiway systems. In the language of our Physics Project, it’s the ultimate limit of all rulial multiway systems. I call it the ruliad. &#10005.

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Physics Mathematics Computer Construction 122

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

But I think it’s a tribute to the strength of its design that it now fits so well with LLMs—with so much synergy. And to me it’s incredible how far we’ve come in these 35 years—yet how consistent we’ve been in our mission and goals, and how well we’ve been able to just keep building on the foundations we created all those years ago.

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Computer Calculus Construction Mathematics 118

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But how does it do it? And why does it work? But this is where a bit of voodoo begins to creep in. My purpose here is to give a rough outline of what’s going on inside ChatGPT—and then to explore why it is that it can do so well in producing what we might consider to be meaningful text.

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Computer Architecture Mathematics Construction 145

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

And how will we humans fit in? And what makes this work is that whenever ChatGPT has to “extrapolate” beyond anything it’s explicitly seen from us humans it does so in ways that seem similar to what we as humans might do. And that’s where we humans come in. What does this mean at a practical, everyday level?

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Computer Biology Mathematics Economics 105

Stephen Wolfram

JULY 17, 2023

And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. But this “alien” neural net will still produce some kind of image—because that’s what a neural net like this does. But what does it actually look like?

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Computer Physics Artificial Intelligence Communications 97