In the traditional model of education, we assign students grades to indicate what percentage of the material they have mastered.

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He studies the material properties of tissue and organs from animals and cadavers to assign shape, size, density, mass and ten or more coefficients that describe how each cube of virtual flesh will deform when confronted with a given force from a given direction.

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