Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

Wolfram Language code for training the neural nets used here is also available (requires GPU). So what about science? But what I want to do here is to discuss what amount to deeper questions about AI in science. Three centuries ago science was transformed by the idea of representing the world using mathematics.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 3, 2021

If you enroll in any of the courses mentioned in this post, use the code COOL20 to receive 20% off of your course. Social-emotional learning (SEL) is right at the top of the list for many of us. As I look ahead to this summer and listen to educators, here are 21 hot topics that I think we should consider including in our summer PD.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 19, 2023

As I kick off Season 12 of the 10 Minute Teacher (after a much-needed break), I'm sharing 21 uses of AI tools, 4 conversation starters (including eight concerns of negative uses of AI), and a lesson plan I used to teach AI. I recently taught my students about budgets and they were so grateful!

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Futurum

MAY 9, 2023

However, there are hundreds of different types of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites which can survive in food and make our food dangerous for us instead. However, there are hundreds of different types of viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites which can survive in food and make our food dangerous for us instead.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 23, 2016

A common and recurring question from parents is how to keep their children safe while using the internet. That is also one of the worst things about it. For years, it was a fairly simple process of monitoring history and blocking certain search terms. Despite the high stakes, many parents prefer to bury their heads in the sand.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

An Unexpected Correspondence Enter any expression and it’ll get evaluated: And internally—say in the Wolfram Language —what’s going on is that the expression is progressively being transformed using all available rules until no more rules apply. What about non-terminating sequences of events? And so far this may all seem very simple.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 14, 2023

As someone who has been working in robotics for years now, I have had my fair share of experience with different kinds of robots. It comes equipped with sensors, motors, lights, and sounds that can be programmed using block-based coding through an accompanying app. Let’s find out!

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. But it’s a new understanding, and to get to it I’ve had to overcome a certain amount of conventional wisdom about the Second Law that I at least have long taken for granted. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. How Did We Get Here?

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

And this then leads us to the idea that perhaps the ruliad might underlie not only physics but also mathematics—and that everything in mathematics, like everything in physics, might just be the result of sampling the ruliad. 1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics.

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Futurum

MAY 19, 2022

There is an adage that states we know more about the Universe than we do the human brain and, while that is not strictly true (it has to be understood in context), it is perhaps fair to say that relative to the opportunity for discoveries in the future, we do know much more about the Universe than we do our own minds!

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 23, 2023

In Just Two and a Half Months… Early in January I wrote about the possibility of connecting ChatGPT to Wolfram|Alpha. In Just Two and a Half Months… Early in January I wrote about the possibility of connecting ChatGPT to Wolfram|Alpha. See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?”

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Futurum

AUGUST 16, 2022

Published: Love them or hate them, chatbots are having an increasing role in the technological space, now that artificial intelligence has developed to a stage where they can be genuinely useful in fields such as healthcare, defence and finance. CHATBOT – a computer program that simulates conversations with human users.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But what I’ve increasingly been realizing is that actually it’s showing us something even bigger and deeper: a whole fundamentally new paradigm for making models and in general for doing theoretical science. But there remained plenty of phenomena—particularly associated with complexity—that this paradigm seemed to have little to say about.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But what I’ve increasingly been realizing is that actually it’s showing us something even bigger and deeper: a whole fundamentally new paradigm for making models and in general for doing theoretical science. But there remained plenty of phenomena—particularly associated with complexity—that this paradigm seemed to have little to say about.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 18, 2022

It’s no longer something baked into our basic ideas about space. It seems like the kind of question that might have been hotly debated by ancient philosophers, but would have been settled long ago: how is it that things can move? But with this setup, what even is motion? There’s an immediate analogy here.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 2, 2016

Set Up the Conditions to Give Learners Voice. This is further discussed in my post, Today’s Education Should Be About Giving Learners Voice and Choice. Giving learners options to use their voice in a way that works best for them. Giving learners options to use their voice in a way that works best for them.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 13, 2022

I Think I Should Write a Quick Book… In the end it’s about five and a half pounds of paper , 1280 pages, 973 illustrations and 583,313 words. I’ve written before (even in the book itself ) about the intellectual journey involved in the creation of A New Kind of Science. But its creation took more than a decade of my life.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ed was someone who wanted to independently figure things out for himself, and delighted in presenting his often somewhat-outlandish conclusions—whether about technology, science, business or the world—with dramatic showman-like panache. He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. A long and colorful story.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 8, 2022

And the point is that this is directly related to how one can think about typical games and puzzles. And in turn understanding the relation to games and puzzles has the potential to provide a new level of intuition and familiarity about multiway graphs. And I explore here what seems like a particularly good example: games and puzzles.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Moreover, they tell schools nothing about students’ connections with family, friends, coaches, neighbors and the like that make up a young person’s actual network, and often contain valuable assets that schools could tap into. Mapping Who Students Know How might schools go about discovering who students know?

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This is part 1 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. But 150 years after it was first introduced , there’s still something deeply mysterious about the Second Law. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics 3. How Did We Get Here?

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 17, 2021

In preparation for a conference entitled “ Distributed Consensus with Cellular Automata & Related Systems ” that we’re organizing with NKN (= “New Kind of Network”) I decided to explore the problem of distributed consensus using methods from A New Kind of Science (yes, NKN “rhymes” with NKS) as well as from the Wolfram Physics Project.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I studied the approaches people had tried to use. So for me it was obvious: if I couldn’t figure out things myself with math, I should use a computer. And to try to find the most minimal, most “meta” kind of model to use. We see all sorts of complexity in nature and elsewhere. Or is there some common underlying cause?

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Building on an earlier interest in space and spacecraft , I’d gotten very interested in physics, and was trying to read everything I could about it. But one afternoon late that summer I decided I should really find out what that mysterious fifth book was all about.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

To us it’s profoundly satisfying to see what has been done over the past three decades with everything we’ve built so far. Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in the cloud. See also more detailed information on Version 13.1 , Version 13.2 and Version 13.3. there are 6602.

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Stephen Wolfram

JULY 17, 2023

I’ve wondered about alien minds for a long time—and tried all sorts of ways to imagine what it might be like to see things from their point of view. I’ve wondered about alien minds for a long time—and tried all sorts of ways to imagine what it might be like to see things from their point of view. That is, until now. So, what’s changed?

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And it encapsulates not only all formal possibilities but also everything about our physical universe—and everything we experience can be thought of as sampling that part of the ruliad that corresponds to our particular way of perceiving and interpreting the universe. The Entangled Limit of Everything. I call it the ruliad. &#10005.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

” So let’s say we’ve got the text “ The best thing about AI is its ability to ” Imagine scanning billions of pages of human-written text (say on the web and in digitized books) and finding all instances of this text—then seeing what word comes next what fraction of the time. But how does it do it?

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 20, 2021

It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing this for 35 years, building a taller and taller tower of ideas and technology that allow us to reach ever further. In earlier times we used to release the results of efforts only every few years. is just about making Wolfram Language and Mathematica better, smoother and more convenient to use.

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