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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Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 104

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

And for the past four years I’ve been sharing the “behind the scenes” of how it’s achieved—by livestreaming our Wolfram Language design review meetings. And that’s finally been achieved in Version 13.1. If one’s doing something like astronomy, this kind of “physical” date computation is probably what one wants. &#10005.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. Sadi Carnot was born in 1796, and was largely educated by his father until he went to college in 1812. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 89

Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When you do operations on Around numbers the “errors” are combined using a certain calculus of errors that’s effectively based on Gaussian distributions—and the results you get are always in some sense statistical. Also in the area of calculus we’ve added various conveniences to the handling of differential equations. &#10005.

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