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Wolfram Technology Conference 2024: Innovator Awards Wolfram 2024-10-18 | Stephen Wolfram delivers his keynote for the Innovator Awards and hands them out virtually. Find out more about the conference here: wolfram.com/events/technology-conference/202400:00 Stream Begins0:04 Stephen begins the presentation2:50 Michael Berry9:09 Mauro Da Lio14:44 Pedro Fonseca19:22 Jose Guillermo Sanchez Leon24:32 Andrew Lutken28:27 Thomas Wallek33:26 LieArt: Robert Feger, Thomas Kephart, & Robert Saskowski40:33 Sebastian Mizera 47:22 Fei Du52:22 Hector Benitez Perez56:21 Europa Clipper Technical Resources Modeling Team1:06:44 Stream EndsFollow us on our official social media channels.Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-researchContribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.comStay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.comFollow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
History of Science and Technology Q&A (October 16, 2024) Wolfram 2024-10-17 | Stephen Wolfram hosts a live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about the history of science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram If you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J 00:00 Start stream3:33 SW starts talking4:33 If you were transported back in time to say the time of Aristotle, what would you do? What would you pursue in terms of career/research?9:40 Why are Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates the names most people think of when thinking about ancient society and science?22:22 Almost all of these philosophers were also physicists30:26 How did ancient thinkers like Democritus come up with early ideas about atoms and matter?39:14 Do you think letters or published books/essays are more useful for studying history?48:17 What about things like newspapers, but particularly pamphlets and journals that are lost or completely undervalued for not being books, even though people at the time would considered them essential54:26 Would you run off and not drink the poison if you were Socrates?57:12 Do you think it's still possible to be a polymath today like Da Vinci?1:04:49 I found a place that still produces those postcards you play on a record player. Do you think that would be a good way of storing things like a password or crypto especially utilizing steganography?1:14:10 If humanity completely falls back to the storage level of knowledge, would we be able to grow our knowledge back fast enough to decipher old SSD's before they decay or would that be another Alexandria?1:21:18 End stream Follow us on our official social media channels. X: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Wolfram Technology Conference 2024: Stephen Wolframs Keynote Address Wolfram 2024-10-17 | Stephen Wolfram gives his opening Keynote Address for the Wolfram Technology Conference. Find out more about the conference here: wolfram.com/events/technology-conference/202400:00 Stream begins3:26 SW starts talking2:14:02 Stream endsFollow us on our official social media channels.Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-researchContribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.comStay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.comFollow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Research Working Session: Lambda Exploration Wolfram 2024-10-13 | Join Stephen Wolfram as he discusses various areas of science and research. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Lambda paclet: resources.wolframcloud.com/PacletRepository/resources/Wolfram/Lambda Stephen's nb: wolframcloud.com/obj/s.wolfram/Published/Lambdas-02.nb Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (October 11, 2024) Wolfram 2024-10-12 | Stephen Wolfram hosts an unscripted Ask Me Anything about the future of science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram If you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J 00:00 Start stream00:56 Stephen starts talking2:01 I read that recent advancements in AI research are partly based on McCulloch and Pitts's famous paper on neural nets. Do you think there are more ideas worthwhile to explore again in cybernetics?18:35 What is the future of technology about speech recognition?28:24 How do I know if I am speaking to a human? The future is crazy!33:41 Future of finance! Talk about AI talking to AI for trading.50:23 Getting an AI to understand economics seems like it'll be quite a step.54:46 What's the difference between a computational and a mathematical model?56:23 Have you seen Blaise Agüera y Arcas's recent paper on self-replicating programs? Published on arXiv recently.1:07:58 Wouldn't chaos theory be an example of the computational case? You know the rules of the system but have to set the initial conditions to see how it plays out.1:16:41 How do we prepare for the risk of bots/worms invading everyday life as we become more dependent on technology?1:16:44 End stream Follow us on our official social media channels. X: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Stephen Wolfram Readings: Nestedly Recursive Functions Wolfram 2024-10-11 | Stephen reads a recent blog from writings.stephenwolfram.com and then answers questions live from his viewers. Read the blog along with Stephen: writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/09/nestedly-recursive-functions Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram 00:00 Start stream7:48 SW starts talking8:10 Yet Another Ruliological Surprise12:51 The Basic Idea16:15 A Closer Look at P312 ( f[n_] := 3 + f[n \[Dash] f[n \[Dash] 2]] )29:42 The "P Family": f[n_] := a + f[n \[Dash] b f[n \[Dash] c]]32:36 The "T Family": f[n_] := a f[n \[Dash] b f[n \[Dash] c]]39:32 The "Summer School" Sequence T311 (f[n_] := 3 f[n \[Dash] f[n \[Dash] 1]])41:13 The "S Family": f[n_] := n \[Dash] f[f[n \[Dash] a] \[Dash] b]47:14 More Complicated Rules54:37 An Aside: The Continuous Case1:00:41 How Do You Actually Compute Recursive Functions?1:06:01 Primitive Recursive or Not?1:20:34 Some History1:36:58 My Personal Story with Nestedly Recursive Function1:51:25 Q&A1:59:13 End stream Follow us on our official social media channels. X: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 855: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] Wolfram 2024-10-11 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (October 9, 2024) Wolfram 2024-10-10 | Stephen Wolfram hosts live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about business, innovation and managing life. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram If you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J 00:00 Start stream1:10 SW starts talking1:24 Can you comment on the recent Nobel Prizes?25:21 Do you think you'll ever try to win a Nobel Prize?28:38 Are this year's Nobel Prize nominations a kind of interim step towards Nobel Prizes awarded to AI "entities" (rather than programs)?36:10 I'm not that fond of prizes, because there's many people out there that deserve it as much as they do. There's no need to waste too much time on it, since they probably already got the recognition. I mean, I'm more interested in understanding the contributions rather than the prizes themselves. Its like... OK. So what? They got a prize that somebody else wanted to give them...38:50 What software do you use for the graphs/illustrations in your books? I always find the illustrations in your posts, books, blog to be aesthetically pleasing, and I'd like to reproduce that. The combinations of colors are amazing. Did you take any special course on visual representation of concepts or something?40:53 What is your advice for attending technology conferences as a student?43:54 Do you have general advice for university students (in my case I am a CS student) that do not necessarily have the confidence to begin a big project?49:50 What has made you happy or is the best thing about running a business?56:51 What do you think about literature? About fiction books? What are some of your favorite books? What are some you would recommend? Do you think it is important to read fiction?1:01:14 Have you ever been to Japan, Stephen?1:03:34 How did you come up with your new blog about time?1:12:45 Recently some friends' daughter was sharing enthusiastically what she was passionate about career-wise, and it crushed my soul that it was being taken over by AI already... what's one to say?1:14:15 I'm learning about AI models right now. And I've come to the point where I am adjusting hyperparameters a lot, which is driving me nuts. Do you have any advice on what to do with this?1:15:33 What gave you the confidence to work hard on your vision before you saw any external validation/success?1:23:07 What is your advice for the people who are "not good employees"? How do they get to do their own things in their own way, but still contribute value and "make a living"?1:28:36 End stream Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 854: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Riffle with Arbitrary Head & More] Wolfram 2024-10-10 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
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Live CEOing Ep 853: Design Review of MoleculeMesh Wolfram 2024-10-09 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 852: Design Review of Hypergraph Paclet Wolfram 2024-10-09 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 851: Design Review of Special Projects Wolfram 2024-10-08 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 850: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] Wolfram 2024-10-08 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 849: Design Review of Mathematical Computation Wolfram 2024-10-02 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 848: Design Review of Machine Learning Wolfram 2024-10-02 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 847: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] Wolfram 2024-10-02 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 846: Design Review of Sound & Vision continued Wolfram 2024-10-01 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 845: Design Review of Discrete Computation Wolfram 2024-10-01 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 844: Design Review of LLM Features Wolfram 2024-09-27 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolframFollow us on our official social media channels.Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-researchContribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.comStay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.comFollow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Math Storytelling: Part Two Wolfram 2024-09-26 | Join Stephen Wolfram as he picks up from Part One (youtu.be/4QtDnAkdzxE) continuing the story of math for everyone and hoping to reach calculus and beyond! Find Stephen's notebook here: wolframcloud.com/obj/s.wolfram/Published/MathStory-02.nb Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram 00:00 Start stream4:20 SW starts talking4:44 Part One review7:58 Calculus story2:07:07 Where do the symbols +, -, *, and / come from?2:08:31 Is square root of 3 within the real number?2:10:51 What determines those special cases for which there are "computational reducibility" for integral forms, from where there aren't any, and as opposed to differentiation, at a most fundamental level?2:16:10 So happy to see even Wolfram himself gets the same errors as me2:16:52 How do humans manage to do integrals? Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 843: Design Review of Sound & Vision Wolfram 2024-09-21 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [Part 150] Wolfram 2024-09-21 | Stephen Wolfram hosts a live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qaOriginally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolframIf you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J00:00 Start stream3:33 SW starts talking3:44 May I ask a simple question? What aspects or elements of a probability distribution can be computed or quantified, and how are these computations used to describe the distribution?28:21 Why are some creatures nocturnal? Why aren't humans?35:04 Is the normal distribution related to the complexity of the dynamics, or is it found equally at all scales?38:16 Does pi have a normal number distribution?39:40 Google says the average human height is 5'9"–it's 5'10" in the US.41:16 I read that there is a puzzle over why no new body plans developed since the Cambrian. In your machine learning view of adaptive evolution, what's happening here?54:31 Apparently Japanese kids are getting taller, correlated with red meat consumption.1:02:04 Do you think there are so many variables that it's impossible to figure out? Everyone knows about corn syrup, but there are also things like smoking was very common, etc.1:07:58 What kinds of diseases that have afflicted humanity for almost all of our history would stunt growth?1:12:05 If you consume less energy, your processes including various damage and aging slow down, right?1:15:19 Could we have evolved out of needing an appendix because of diet?1:20:21 Is it possible to measure somehow the intelligence of dinosaurs?1:27:51 End streamFollow us on our official social media channels.Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-researchStephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolframContribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.comStay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.comFollow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 842: Design Review of PDE Modeling Wolfram 2024-09-21 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolframFollow us on our official social media channels.Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-researchContribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.comStay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.comFollow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 841: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] Wolfram 2024-09-20 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Mathematical Games Hosted by Ed Pegg Jr. [Episode 21: Ordering and Canonical Forms] Wolfram 2024-09-20 | Join Ed Pegg Jr. as he explores the mathematical games and puzzles involving ordering and canonical forms.Find the presentation notebook on Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3277858Follow us on our official social media channels.X: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-researchContribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.comStay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com
History of Science and Technology Q&A (September 18, 2024) Wolfram 2024-09-19 | Stephen Wolfram hosts a live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about the history of science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram If you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J 00:00 Start stream 00:41 SW starts talking00:47 Why is history important?8:17 History is very good at preventing humanity from making the same mistakes.8:56 How would you explain the history of pi?34:51 Do we know why Brahmagupta came up with the rules for arithmetic and algebra with zero and negative quantities? His book does appear to be a discontinuous jump in understanding.44:40 Do you know if there was any physical reason that the Greek "elements" were associated with particular geometric shapes?46:22 The Pi Day thing is great; I think I might get a shirt.47:24 To what extent did your own path/work intersect the heydays of Bell Labs and notable people therefrom?1:09:36 Did you ever use an Amiga computer?1:13:02 With mobile devices we are basically going back to terminals.1:14:40 I used to have a Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 sitting on my desk for AutoCAD and 3D modeling. Those were great machines and fun times!1:18:28 Speaking of McCarthy and those days, do you think that sticking to s-expressions as opposed to m-expressions and Wolfram Language-style ones impeded Lisp's adoption historically?1:28:14 End stream Follow us on our official social media channels. X: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 840: Language Design in Wolfram Language [AssociationComap, MidDate & More] Wolfram 2024-09-19 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolframFollow us on our official social media channels.Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-researchContribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.comStay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.comFollow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Combining Wolfram Language and R Wolfram 2024-09-19 | Join our webinar to learn how to use Wolfram Language and R in the same workflow. Our instructor will explore the functionality of RLink, a Wolfram Language application that allows R code to be run from Mathematica's notebook environment or embedded in Wolfram Language code. Bring your specific R workflows into the unified computation platform of Wolfram Language to utilize the full power of the world's largest algorithm base to expand your project's computational capabilities beyond just statistics. ++ Join our upcoming webinar: Medical Image Processing and Computer Vision with MathematicaFriday, September 27, 2024 · 3:00 p.m. LondonRegister for free here: https://wolfr.am/1pksebk2PThis is a crash course to familiarize you with common workflows of computer vision. You will learn how to import different file formats as well as preprocess images and cast models with Wolfram superfunctions to achieve tasks such as segmentation and classification. With the medical image examples, you will understand machine learning models in your domain context.Register for upcoming sessions: wolfram.com/wolfram-u/calendarStay up-to-date with our WolframU events.Wolfram Events Page: events.wolfram.comYouTube: youtube.com/@wolframuLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-u Follow us on our official social media channels:X: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research/mycompanyContribute to the official Wolfram Community:community.wolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 839: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] Wolfram 2024-09-16 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (September 13, 2024) Wolfram 2024-09-14 | Stephen Wolfram hosts an unscripted Ask Me Anything about the future of science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram If you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J 00:00:00: Start stream1:13 SW starts talking1:24 What research is essential for putting people on Mars?9:04 Any comments on the future of arts and literature in the face of AI-related challenges? Will individual creative impulses forever be subjugated to AI?18:23 How often do you find yourself thinking about the future of science and technology? Does this affect how you prioritize certain projects (say, wait five years because the tech will be better to handle it)?32:43 Is there a chance we will ever have giant insects or animals akin to those that lived during the age of dinosaurs reappear?38:41 How can we combine LLMs with first-generation AI algorithms like "MiniMax" and tree search? At the moment, LLMs can't even play tic-tac -toe.42:52 Have you heard about AI reading minds through brain waves and fMRI, researched by Michael Blumenstein and Jerry Tang?50:40 Have your thoughts on the future of education changed at all recently?58:18 Would you ever go to Mars?1:01:48 Are the challenges different from colonizing the bottom of the ocean, other than obvious logistics?1:03:46 Given the uptick in robotics advances, including humanoid, I wonder if there will even be a point to sending humans to Mars anymore, beyond tourism.1:06:30 Wasn't there a significantly higher percentage of O2 back then? 1:06:38 A pygmy Stegosaurus would be adorable!1:07:15 I would not like to go to Mars. It seems boring. They don't even have a Starbucks. 1:08:05 How might the Physics Project help advance technologies like fusion power?1:14:06 End streamFollow us on our official social media channels. X: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
ChatGPT Gets Its Wolfram Superpowers Wolfram 2024-09-14 | Find out what's going on inside ChatGPT and explore why it can perform so well at producing meaningful text. This Study Group is based on a best-selling book by Stephen Wolfram (wolfram-media.com/products/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/?src=dsg-series) and provides an accessible and engaging explanation for the success of ChatGPT. Learn about neural net technology and computational language and see examples of how Wolfram|Alpha brings computational knowledge superpowers to ChatGPT.A Wolfram certified instructor guides each session by summarizing the book content, walking through relevant code, polling the group to review key concepts and answering questions.Register for upcoming sessions: wolfram.com/wolfram-u/calendarStay up-to-date with our WolframU events.Wolfram Events Page: events.wolfram.comYouTube: youtube.com/@wolframuLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-u Follow us on our official social media channels:X: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research/mycompanyContribute to the official Wolfram Community:community.wolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 838: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] Wolfram 2024-09-13 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 837: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Engine Connectivity Engineering] Wolfram 2024-09-13 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (September 11, 2024) Wolfram 2024-09-12 | Stephen Wolfram hosts live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about business, innovation and managing life. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram If you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J 00:00 Start stream1:08 SW starts talking1:28 Do you think the US will ever transition to the metric system?6:04 What tricks or methods do you use to stay focused on developing a core innovation, while not getting distracted by related features or future potentiality of the innovation (either as an individual or a team)?12:52 Do you have any thoughts why people always seem to underestimate the amount of time a specific project takes? Everyone knows a project always takes roughly double the amount but never plans around that knowledge.21:49 What country do you think is the best to live in? How would you compare the ideal of living in Europe, the ideal of drinking nice wine and good food with friends, to the ideal of working in the US and creating a business which solves some need?29:21 Do you think contemporary books are worse than the classics? Do you think contemporary films are worse than the old ones? What do you think about the art being made today in general?31:36 I'm in awe of your archive of information and would love to know about the mechanics of how you operate that and the tools you use. Would you be able to talk more in depth about how you add to this archive on a day-to-day basis, please, and your general setup?41:37 Speaking of your setup, how do you deal with "pen & paper," notably for preliminary thinking that may be visual/diagrammatic (i.e. free-form), and how does it fit your digital/"quantified" setup?50:06 How do you deal with "memorabilia," both physical and digital?57:54 I saw the kids on a iPad with a pencil doing math homework digitally and it works great to keep all the notes for homework!1:00:13 End StreamFollow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Studying the Decomposition of Radioactive Material from Supernovae Wolfram 2024-09-11 | Welcome back to the Wolfram Student Podcast! In episode 1 of season 3, we feature Pavel Pomozov and his project on understanding the decomposition of isotopes by visualizing their half-lives and binding energies. Join us as we investigate characteristics of common elements found in supernovae, discuss the difference between Wolfram Database and Bethe-Weizsäcker binding energies, and delve into determining energy loss and decomposition graphs.
Neural Networks Basics: Machine Learning, Training and Embeddings Wolfram 2024-09-11 | Find out what's going on inside ChatGPT and explore why it can perform so well at producing meaningful text. This Study Group is based on a best-selling book by Stephen Wolfram (wolfram-media.com/products/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/?src=dsg-series) and provides an accessible and engaging explanation for the success of ChatGPT. Learn about neural net technology and computational language and see examples of how Wolfram|Alpha brings computational knowledge superpowers to ChatGPT.A Wolfram certified instructor guides each session by summarizing the book content, walking through relevant code, polling the group to review key concepts and answering questions.Register for upcoming sessions: wolfram.com/wolfram-u/calendarStay up-to-date with our WolframU events.Wolfram Events Page: events.wolfram.comYouTube: youtube.com/@wolframuLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-u Follow us on our official social media channels:X: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research/mycompanyContribute to the official Wolfram Community:community.wolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 836: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] Wolfram 2024-09-10 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [Part 149] Wolfram 2024-09-07 | Stephen Wolfram hosts a live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram If you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J 00:00: Start stream1:24 SW starts talking1:48 Can machine learning find a pattern in all animal languages?13:36 Cat: "Meow." Translation: "What a glorious day to be alive. I think I will frolic in the fields and catch myself some field mice for my tea. Then I shall sit down and ponder the nature of the universe."14:18 What is time?39:54 If the rules repeat a state, does that mean time has gone backwards?41:24 So less computation allowed for the progression of time? Time slows down the faster you go?48:09 Communication speed between Mars and Earth is not instantaneous. So wouldn't both the sender and the receiver never have real-time data of what was happening on both planets? We on Earth may only find out that something terrible happened on Mars after it's too late, correct?56:07 Is there an "objective" time in Wolfram physics? Is the "frame rate" the same everywhere?57:29 How do I prove that matter is made of atoms?1:07:43 How would you solve 100/4(2+3)? 1:26:57 End stream Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 835: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] Wolfram 2024-09-06 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Wolfram Language: The Power of Unified Computation Wolfram 2024-09-05 | Whatever your field, whatever your application, Wolfram technology provides the ultimate computation platform. Accelerating research, education, technical development and progress.Follow us on our official social media channels: X: x.com/wolframresearchFacebook: facebook.com/@WolframResearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research
History of Science and Technology Q&A (September 4, 2024) Wolfram 2024-09-05 | Stephen Wolfram hosts a live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about the history of science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram If you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J 00:00: Start stream1:32 SW starts talking1:43 When, for you, was a computational approach introduced to the scientific process or the scientific culture?42:15 Who began the trend of naming discoveries, inventions, etc. after yourself?48:24 Became clear? How? Pretty sure no one ever solved the three-body equation.48:41 Commentary about naming conventions.1:00:20 The Trojan asteroids are named after characters from the Trojan War in Greek mythology because of the convention that started with the discovery of the first few such asteroids near Jupiter. These asteroids occupy stable Lagrangian points (L4 and L5) in Jupiter's orbit, and astronomers decided to name them after heroes from the Trojan War, with those at L4 being named after Greek heroes and those at L5 named after Trojan heroes.1:02:03 Any planned work with tungsten?1:06:24 Regarding naming, is there are good naming convention is computer languages? 1:07:55 What's your view of innovation in economic science? We are nearly 250 years since Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. 1:16:31 Recall the idea of "Recapitate" instead of "Apply."1:28:14 End stream Follow us on our official social media channels. X: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 834: Language Design in Wolfram Language [CasesWindow, Unthread & More] Wolfram 2024-09-05 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
New and Powerful Components for AI and LLMs Wolfram 2024-09-05 | Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is here with the latest from our R&D pipeline. This webinar is devoted to learning about Wolfram tools for AI, including connections and prompt engineering for large language models (LLMs), improvements in speech recognition and new video and audio processing functionality.Register for upcoming sessions: wolfram.com/wolfram-u/calendarStay up-to-date with our WolframU events.Wolfram Events Page: events.wolfram.comYouTube: youtube.com/@wolframuLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-u Follow us on our official social media channels:X: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research/mycompanyContribute to the official Wolfram Community:community.wolfram.com
Computational Conversations EP#9 | Electricity vs. computation: What can we learn? Wolfram 2024-09-04 | Jon and Conrad take the long view on technology revolutions, discussing how the rise of electricity has parallels with the modern rise of computation.Related blog post: conradwolfram.com/writings/comparing-electricity-and-computationFollow us on social media:X: x.com/wolframresearchFacebook: facebook.com/@WolframResearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-researchConrad Wolfram:X: x.com/conradwolframLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/conradwolframJon McLoone:X: x.com/jonmclooneLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jonmclooneRead more from Conrad and Jon on their websites:Conrad Wolfram: conradwolfram.comJon McLoone: jon.mcloone.info
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (August 30, 2024) Wolfram 2024-08-31 | Stephen Wolfram hosts an unscripted Ask Me Anything about the future of science and technology for all ages. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram If you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J 00:00 Start stream0:59 SW starts talking1:13 What are your thoughts on machine learning to create new genera? Like what would be a good way to go about doing something like that? Like a new genera of plants/animals?10:12 Can you talk about the future of information gathering and research? Say I am discussing with a robot a paper I am writing and the robot is providing examples and evidence to support my arguments–do I cite the robot as my source? Or do I have to find where the robot got the information?19:27 How advanced do you think AI available to consumers (like ChatGPT) will be by August 2029? 24:33 Hello, Dr. Wolfram. My name is Grace and I'm currently preparing to pursue a PhD in fiber science. My research interests lie at the intersection of computational materials science and sustainable textile innovation. I have a background in pharmaceutical sciences. I've recently been exploring how advanced computational methods can be applied to fiber science, specifically in developing smart and sustainable textiles. How do you foresee quantum computing impacting the modeling and simulation of complex fibers and polymers? 30:37 What's your take on integrating memory into LLMs to enable retention across sessions? How could this impact their performance and capabilities?32:55 What are your intuitions about the AI-generated fake content to deceive people, whether using deep fake face swaps or voice cloning or one or more things combined? Are we rapidly approaching a point where we won't be able to trust anything on the internet?41:54 When do you expect the discovery of life on an exoplanet?48:15 Is the hype around LLMs dying, finally relegating the toys to the toy box where they belong, or do you think anyone will ever be able to make them useful and accurate?50:41 Do you think future cars will be able to get rid of wheels?57:49 What algorithms changed the world the most? What's the next algorithm that will change the world? How does one release such an algorithm so that the result is positive?1:09:40 End stream Follow us on our official social media channels. X: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Birthday Livestream: the Last 5 years & the Future Wolfram 2024-08-30 | The last five years (since Stephen's last birthday livestream: youtu.be/2-aAi6QXsl0) have been his most productive yet. Join him as he celebrates by looking back at the last five years and looking forward to what's next. writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five-most-productive-years-what-happened-and-whats-next Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram 00:00 Stream starts5:44 Stephen starts talking8:43 So...What Happened?44:43 The Process of Getting Things Done1:02:07 What's Next?1:33:07 Q&A Follow us on our official social media channels. X: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (August 28, 2024) Wolfram 2024-08-29 | Stephen Wolfram hosts live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about business, innovation and managing life. Find the playlist of Q&A's here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram If you missed the original livestream of this episode, feel free to submit a question you would like Stephen to answer in a future Q&A livestream here: https://wolfr.am/12cczmv5J 00:00 Start stream3:09 SW starts talking3:35 Do you only collect books that you find useful/actually read? Or do you have some books that are there purely for "looks"?6:37 On the current topic of books, to what extent have you transitioned to electronic books and reading, if at all, and how do you foresee physical books fitting your workflow and life going forward?9:22 You seem to enjoy what you do with your business very much. I'm curious what you enjoy to do for a good vacation with regard to managing life?14:08 Saw your driver's license on X! What's the biggest difference between UK and US driving? Which do you prefer?18:20 For me the best, I would like to have both the physical book and the audiobook version. The audiobook helps to have a bit passive osmosis-like way to absorb the content, and I can go to parts that I am still confused about in the physical book. But the ability to search what you hear in the audiobook should be an option.19:48 What is the key to a happy/content life in your opinion?27:48 What would be the best arrangement in an innovation setting that collaboration won't create a conflict about who would get what credit?38:46 Have you tried the Daylight computer yet? 41:35 Did you ever raise money for your company? It seems you've maintained freedom far better than other entrepreneurs.50:40 Happy early birthday! Do you "feel" your age? You seem surprisingly active for retirement age.54:09 I can't see the point of retiring. If you do what you love, then why stop?59:16 I help people to retire. I would suggest that, if your job is stressful, retirement is strongly correlated with better health.1:02:18 I am a baker by trade. I wanted to do mathematics when I was a teen but dropped out. Stephen's programs were a huge inspiration for me back in the late 90s. I am now in my 40s and looking to go back into maths and engineering.1:04:40 What is your choice of birthday cake flavor?1:05:24 Brain vascularization/oxygenation (through exercise) is such an underappreciated competitive advantage in cognitively demanding fields.1:07:00 When I went to Switzerland, I indulged in the chocolate frequently!1:09:25 End stream Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Stephen Wolfram's Twitter: twitter.com/stephen_wolfram Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Live CEOing Ep 833: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Annotation, Rethinking On[], & More] Wolfram 2024-08-29 | In this episode of Live CEOing, Stephen Wolfram discusses upcoming improvements and functionality to Wolfram Language. If you'd like to contribute to the discussion in future episodes, you can participate through this YouTube channel or through the official Twitch channel of Stephen Wolfram here: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: twitter.com/WolframResearch Facebook: facebook.com/wolframresearch Instagram: instagram.com/wolframresearch LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: community.wolfram.com Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: blog.wolfram.com Follow Stephen Wolfram's life, interests, and what makes him tick on his blog: writings.stephenwolfram.com
Visualizing and Computing Astronomical and Chemical Data and Historical Geography Wolfram 2024-08-29 | Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is here with the latest from our R&D pipeline. This session in the New in Wolfram 14.1 webinar series brings you experts sharing incredible advancements in astronomical computation, symbolic representation of 3D biomolecules and historical geography.Register for upcoming sessions: bigmarker.com/series/new-in-wolfram-language-14-1/series_details?utm_bmcr_source=youtubeStay up-to-date with our WolframU events.Wolfram Events Page: events.wolfram.comYouTube: youtube.com/@wolframuLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-u Follow us on our official social media channels:X: twitter.com/WolframResearchFacebook: facebook.com/wolframresearchInstagram: instagram.com/wolframresearchLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/wolfram-research/mycompanyContribute to the official Wolfram Community:community.wolfram.com
