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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. Dogs have helped human scientists in making discoveries, working on important research, and even finding new scientific artifacts.

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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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The Unknown Particles of the Universe

STEMe

When the universe was first created, there was an equal amount of matter and antimatter, but currently, there is more matter than antimatter, despite the fact that when they touch they both annihilate. Neutrinos have nearly no mass, have no charge, and travel at near lightspeed, so they are very hard to detect.

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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

STEM Sport

As the air rushes out of the balloon, it propels the balloon forward, vividly illustrating Newton’s Third Law of Motion – for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Homemade Pendulum: Construct a simple pendulum by suspending a weight from a string.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on. But when things are instead done by AIs or bots, there’s no such need for computational reducibility. Will there still be “human-level descriptions” that involve numbers? 1,I}]; thick=weight/len; rec= #+mid&/@(RotationMatrix[angle]. #&/@{{-len/2,-

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

Stephen Wolfram

And if we’re going to make a “general theory of mathematics” a first step is to do something like we’d typically do in natural science, and try to “drill down” to find a uniform underlying model—or at least representation—for all of them. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. &#10005.

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

Stephen Wolfram

One of them is that one can expect to make something equally computationally sophisticated out of all sorts of different kinds of things—whether brain tissue or electronics, or some system in nature. Processes in nature—like, for example, the weather—can be thought of as corresponding to computations.

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