Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I strongly believe that the world needs engineers with strong critical thinking skills, who know how to ask questions, understand bias, construct and evaluate arguments, and think comprehensively and creatively. My proudest career achievement is the 10 Million Trees project I undertook with Parisa.

Biology 84

Biology Agriculture Engineering Critical Thinking 84

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.

Computer 102

Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 102

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

One of the key things that had originally let me start “scientifically investigating” cellular automata is that out of all the infinite number of possible constructible rules, I’d picked a modest number on which I could do exhaustive experiments. Of course, as is typical in the history of ideas, there’s more to the story.

Physics 95

Physics Computer Mathematics Science 95