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MIT Press
Pub. Date
20220816
Language
English
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Opossums in the wild don't make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years. Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some outliers living past 100 or even 110. Is there anything humans can learn from the exceptional longevity of some animals in the wild? In “Methusaleh's Zoo”,...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
20220920
Language
English
Description
Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing-no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space-could we create a universe using only math? Irreverent and boundlessly creative, The Big Bang of Numbers invites us to try.
In this new mathematical origin story, mathematician and novelist Manil Suri creates a natural progression of ideas needed to design...
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Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
20240305
Language
English
Description
In The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson call for a revolutionary scientific worldview, where science includes-rather than ignores or tries not to see-humanity's lived experience as an inescapable part of our search for objective truth. They urge practitioners to reframe how science works for the sake of our future in the face of the planetary climate crisis and increasing science...
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Odile Jacob
Pub. Date
2024
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Français
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Avec l'émergence de l'IA générative (ChatGPT), la révolution de l'intelligence artificielle (IA) connaît une accélération sans précédent : simplicité d'utilisation des outils, très large éventail d'applications, rapidité de génération de contenus riches et complexes, réalisme des textes, images et sons générés... Cette révolution inouïe suscite craintes et espoirs : craintes que soient massivement détruits des emplois, craintes...
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