ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 23, 2023

And in the end, as we’ll discuss later, that’s a more flexible and powerful way to communicate. The whole process of “prompt engineering” feels a bit like animal wrangling: you’re trying to get ChatGPT to do what you want, but it’s hard to know just what it will take to achieve that. But ChatGPT has all but made this process obsolete.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

And in what follows we’ll see the great power that arises from using this to combine the achievements and intuitions of physics and mathematics—and how this lets us think about new “general laws of mathematics”, and view the ultimate foundations of mathematics in a different light. So how about logic, or, more specifically Boolean algebra ?

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Mathematics Physics Computer Algebra 120

Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Any integral of an algebraic function can in principle be done in terms of our general DifferentialRoot objects. there are now many integrals that could previously be done only in terms of special functions, but now give results in elementary functions. And a third of a century later—in Version 13.0—we’re it can: &#10005.

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Construction Computer Physics Accessibility 67

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models. In physics, those “topological phenomena” presumably correspond to things like elementary particles , with all their various elaborate symmetries. It’s very much like in the emergence of physical space.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models. In physics, those “topological phenomena” presumably correspond to things like elementary particles , with all their various elaborate symmetries. It’s very much like in the emergence of physical space.

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Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 64

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. And key to everything we do is leveraging what we have already done—often taking what in earlier years was a pinnacle of technical achievement, and now using it as a routine building block to reach a level that could barely even be imagined before.

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