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Date Archive: 2021 January

Education & Academic

Project-Based Life Skills from Wolfram’s Emerging Leaders Program

In the days of online learning and remote work, students are gaining valuable skills to help them navigate their education. With new needs for greater independence in their learning journeys, better time management and finding communities in unexpected places, students are already encountering important lessons. Student-centered events like the Wolfram Emerging Leaders Program help foster success in the workplace and in life, no matter what happens in the world.

Announcements & Events

The Advention of Coding: Advent of Code Solutions in the Wolfram Language

Editor’s note: The following post is based on the 2020 Advent of Code challenge, “an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.” Guest author Philip Maymin delves into why he chose to use the Wolfram Language to solve these queries with a how-to on learning the language.

Computation & Analysis

機械学習機能を利用した心不全による死亡のリスク予測

心臓病学のような医療分野でも,Wolfram言語は新たな知見獲得や臨床現場における予測に役立っています.最近,金沢大学先進予防医学研究科の中嶋憲一教授がリードする,Wolfram言語の機械学習機能を用いた心不全による死亡リスク予測の研究に参加し,論文が出版されましたのでその概略を紹介します.そこでは,末期心不全(HFD)と重度の不整脈/突然死(ArE)によって引き起こされる心臓死の確率を区別できる分類器を構築することを目指しました.

Education & Academic

How We Navigated a Hybrid Remote Learning Environment Using Wolfram Technology

The past year of learning ushered in a variety of new experiences for instructors and students alike, and the United States Military Academy at West Point was no exception. In addition to masks in the classroom, reduced class sizes to allow for social distancing, rigorous testing and tracing efforts, and precautionary remote video classes, we have also needed to adjust aspects of our teaching styles. While such adjustments were voluntary, to enhance the discussion I chose to teach several lessons outside under large white tents and even in stadium bleachers to safely enable larger conversations with my cadets. Sometimes this meant carrying a large whiteboard with a tripod out to the stadium. At other times it meant putting quiz-style questions on a website so that students could submit answers via forms that were easier to grade while allowing everyone to work at a safe distance on individual devices.

Computation & Analysis

Deploy a Neural Network to Your iOS Device Using the Wolfram Language

Today’s handheld devices are powerful enough to run neural networks locally without the need for a cloud server connection, which can be a great convenience when you’re on the go. Deploying and running a custom neural network on your phone or tablet is not straightforward, though, and the process depends on the operating system of the machine. In this post, I will focus on iOS devices and walk you through all the necessary steps to train a custom image classifier neural network model using the Wolfram Language, export it through ONNX (new in Version 12.2), convert it to Core ML (Apple’s machine learning framework for iOS apps) and finally deploy it to your iPhone or iPad.