The Maker Mom

MARCH 18, 2023

When you take into account that a small portion of the population of K-12 children will not be best served by this type of virtual education model, there is a fair argument to be made for retaining traditional classrooms. Recent federal commitments to infrastructure seek to close this gap, but these changes take years.

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Learning Online Schooling Accessibility Argumentation 52

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

The Wolfram Language is important to LLMs—in providing a way to access computation and computational knowledge from within the LLM. We’ve always built—and deployed—Wolfram Language so it can be accessible to as many people as possible. But the advent of LLMs—and our new Chat Notebooks —opens up Wolfram Language to vastly more people.

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Computer Calculus Construction Mathematics 119

Futurum

DECEMBER 21, 2022

PERFORMANCE – the speed at which data in a storage device can be accessed (latency) or how much data can be accessed in a given time (throughput). SSDs, on the other hand, are completely electronic, allow computers and devices faster access to information stored in them and consume less power than HDDs.

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Computer Engineering Computer Science Computer Engineering 94

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But in 1798 Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753–1814) measured the heat produced by the mechanical process of boring a cannon, and began to make the argument that, in contradiction to the caloric theory, there was actually some kind of correspondence between mechanical energy and amount of heat.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 89

Futurum

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

You will only ever have direct, conscious access to your own mind, so how do you know that the people around you (who you think have minds) are not just sophisticated zombies or robots? This advice applies equally well to everyday life challenges. A long-standing problem in epistemology is the ‘problem of other minds’. Meet the team.

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Agriculture Biology Research Research 98

National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied access to higher-level mathematics. Yet we have not seen equal advances in achievement (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). Domina et al.,

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Algebra Mathematics Flexibility Research 76

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Some involve alternate functional forms; others involve introducing additional functions, or allowing multiple arguments to our function f. But if we allow (random-access) memory, then the minimal graph becomes possible. But can we generalize what we’re doing to functions f [ x ] where x is a continuous real number? Or the minimal one?

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Computer Mathematics Argumentation Science 106

Futurum

JUNE 21, 2022

DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. Many young people face discrimination and a lack of opportunities, a situation that is all too common in one of Europe’s least equal societies. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty.

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Research Research Professor Argumentation 79

ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

So for this week’s podcast we’re diving into his argument, talking to a philosophy professor who studied with Hussain and regularly teaches the paper to his own students. In that case, your access to health care doesn't depend on any actions that you take. One is where health care is just guaranteed—perhaps government supplied.

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Argumentation Professor Accessibility Equality 260

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

But beginning a little more than a century ago there emerged the idea that one could build mathematics purely from formal axioms, without necessarily any reference to what is accessible to sensory experience. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. But what can we do with this statement? &#10005.

Mathematics 114

Mathematics Physics Computer Algebra 114

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. The energy of the particles is indicated here by the size of the “token dots”: Continuing this a few more steps we get: At the beginning we started with all particles having equal energies.

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Computer Energy Physics Construction 91

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

Should we think of it essentially as a practical tool for accessing existing methods, or does it provide something fundamentally new for science? of what’s now Wolfram Language —we were trying to develop algorithms to compute hundreds of mathematical special functions over very broad ranges of arguments. So how does AI stack up?

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Sciences Science Computer Mathematics 115

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 17, 2021

In the basic definition of a standard cellular automaton, the rule “takes its arguments” in a definite order. And in fact such probabilities tend to have the effect of hiding whatever complexity is intrinsically produced—even if they do “smooth out average behavior” to make things more accessible to traditional mathematical methods.

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Computer Achievement Mathematics Physics 52