Tag: Maths
Tackling England’s physics teacher shortage with a new apprenticeship scheme – Physics World
The shortage of physics teachers in England has led the government to set up a new apprenticeship scheme that it hopes will help encourage...
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Women of Quantum Technology: Abby Casey of the National Quantum Computing Center (NQCC) – Inside Quantum Technology
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 07 Feb 2024 As a Quantum Readiness Delivery Lead at the National Quantum Computing...
From cosmic rays to cardiology – Physics World
Data scientist and artificial-intelligence researcher Azadeh Keivani talks to Tushna Commissariat about her journey from astronomy to healthcare, co-founding an educational non-profit...
IOP Teacher Training Scholarships: opening up new opportunities whatever your background – Physics World
It’s not just recent graduates who are eligible for the IOP’s Teacher Training Scholarship programme. This attractive route into physics teaching...
The Las Vegas Sphere and its curious link with Isaac Newton – Physics World
Sidney Perkowitz explains what Isaac Newton has to do with a huge, glitzy entertainment dome in Las Vegas ...
Reed College: the only place in the US where students get to run a real nuclear reactor – Physics World
Robert P Crease travels to Reed College in the US, which is unique for having the only nuclear reactor in the...
Quantum News Briefs: November 24, 2023: Quantum Application Lab Secures SESA Grant; Massachusetts Looking to Grow Quantum Sector; U of Western Australia offers new...
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 24 Nov 2023 Quantum News Briefs: November 24, 2023:
Quantum Application Lab secures SESA...
Rethinking physics: Silvia Vignolini on succeeding at the boundary between disciplines – Physics World
Silvia Vignolini, a physicist who studies natural photonic structures, talks to Julianna Photopoulos about working across traditional scientific boundaries, co-founding start-up...
BBC highlights Sam Bankman-Fried with ‘Downfall of the Crypto King’ show
BBC looks at “Sam Bankman-Fried, the mop-haired, nerdy maths genius who set out to transform the...
Similarity Searches: The Neurons of the Vector Database
I recently wrote a Finextra piece entitled 3 GenAI Use Cases for Capital Markets; The Power of the Vector. In it, I discussed the increasing...
Fine-tune Llama 2 for text generation on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart | Amazon Web Services
Today, we are excited to announce the capability to fine-tune Llama 2 models by Meta using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The Llama 2 family of...
Why was so much spent on quantum computers before they even existed? – Physics World
Robert P Crease finds out from Susannah Glickman why people ploughed so much money into quantum computers before the technology had even been...
How can we navigate an unpredictable world? The answer lies in mathematics – Physics World
Middle bias, randomness bias, linearity bias, normalcy bias – the list of cognitive glitches that...