Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It seemed as if there was a vast new domain that had suddenly been made accessible to scientific exploration. And in it I could see so much great science that could be done, and so many wonderful opportunities for so many people. But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field.

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PCS Edventures

MARCH 4, 2020

Calculus , which calculates rates of change and infinites. Science, technology, engineering and arts careers often rely upon at least one of these math specializations, so jobs with a math focus are often talked about under the other STEAM categories. Algebra , which incorporates unknown variables into arithmetic equations.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It’s not obvious that it would be feasible to find the path of the steepest descent on the “weight landscape” But calculus comes to the rescue. As we mentioned above, one can always think of a neural net as computing a mathematical function—that depends on its inputs, and its weights.

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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

But again, to connect this and to make it accessible, right? To make STEM accessible is something that’s so important. But I wanted to let you know that I’m at Williams College and I’m pursuing a bachelor’s in computer science. I’m a prospective computer science major there.”

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

But beginning a little more than a century ago there emerged the idea that one could build mathematics purely from formal axioms, without necessarily any reference to what is accessible to sensory experience. From a computer science perspective, we can think of it as being like a type hierarchy.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. The article said that the “MAC” stood either for “Multiple Access Computer” or “Machine-Aided Cognition”.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Once one has the idea of “equilibrium”, one can then start to think of its properties as purely being functions of certain parameters—and this opens up all sorts of calculus-based mathematical opportunities. But now the computation is “less dense”, and seemingly more accessible to human interpretation.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But some of it has immediate practical implications, notably for parallel, distributed, nondeterministic and quantum-style computing. Such abstract functions could be used both “symbolically” to represent things, and explicitly to “compute” things.

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