Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But what we’ve discovered particularly dramatically in our Physics Project is that the nature of us as observers is critical even in determining the most fundamental laws we attribute to the universe. But the notion of observers—and observer theory—isn’t limited purely to “physical observers”. So how basically do all these work?

Physics 120

Physics Mathematics Computer Communications 120

Futurum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports.

Biology 81

Biology STEM Critical Thinking Chemistry 81

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

Should we think of it essentially as a practical tool for accessing existing methods, or does it provide something fundamentally new for science? A key idea—ultimately supported at a foundational level by our Physics Project —is that we can think of everything that happens as a computational process. So how does AI stack up?

Science 122

Science Sciences Computer Mathematics 122

Futurum

AUGUST 11, 2022

LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). I liked all kinds of science when I was at school – biology, chemistry, physics. I was used to solving maths, physics, and chemistry problems, but they were invariably problems that someone had set and, therefore, knew the answer to.

Astronomy 98

Astronomy Equality Research Research 98

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 25, 2021

The history of physics might make one think that numbers would be a necessary part of the structure of any fundamental theory of our physical universe. But the models of physics suggested by our Physics Project have no intrinsic reference to numbers. We discussed above the example of fundamental physics.

Mathematics 53

Mathematics Physics Computer Algebra 53

Stephen Wolfram

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In our Physics Project , the states are combinations of relations between elements, represented by hypergraphs. In our Physics Project, a state corresponds to a hyperedge which contains many hyperedge tokens, and the update rule typically consumes multiple hyperedges. or ) must for example be equal to 1 mod 2, 3 and 6.

Physics 52

Physics Mathematics Algebra Construction 52

Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Any integral of an algebraic function can in principle be done in terms of our general DifferentialRoot objects. Turning from calculus to algebra, we’ve added the function PolynomialSumOfSquaresList that provides a kind of “certificate of positivity” for a multivariate polynomial. And a third of a century later—in Version 13.0—we’re

Construction 67

Construction Computer Physics Accessibility 67

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

The Wolfram Language is important to LLMs—in providing a way to access computation and computational knowledge from within the LLM. We’ve always built—and deployed—Wolfram Language so it can be accessible to as many people as possible. But the advent of LLMs—and our new Chat Notebooks —opens up Wolfram Language to vastly more people.

Computer 118

Computer Calculus Construction Mathematics 118

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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Computer Achievement Mathematics Physics 52