Futurum

JUNE 28, 2022

This is particularly impressive when one considers that this is achieved without even knowing how non-stationary the environment is. Machine learners use a mix of mathematics and computer science to develop and test their algorithms. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO BECOME A COMPUTER SCIENTIST? HOW GROUND-BREAKING IS THIS RESEARCH?

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But what I’ve increasingly been realizing is that actually it’s showing us something even bigger and deeper: a whole fundamentally new paradigm for making models and in general for doing theoretical science. Part of what this achieves is to generalize beyond traditional mathematics the kind of constructs that can appear in models.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. How is it made?

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. It’s all a story of the interplay between underlying computational irreducibility and our nature as computationally bounded observers. Mechanical work irreversibly turns into heat. There’s a bit more to say about this, though.

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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. As all of you know, my background is in engineering and Stef brings a background in the social sciences and cultural anthropology.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 8, 2022

Here in more detail are the forms of some typical components of branchial graphs achieved at particular steps: &#10005. But only 3 ultimately achieve a true Hamiltonian cycle that ends adjacent to the starting node: &#10005. In Chapter 5 of A New Kind of Science I had a section where I first introduced multiway systems.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ed was someone who wanted to independently figure things out for himself, and delighted in presenting his often somewhat-outlandish conclusions—whether about technology, science, business or the world—with dramatic showman-like panache. Finally I felt as if there might be a plausible computational foundation for fundamental physics.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Think of it as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible: the result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project.

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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. 3 | The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. &#10005.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Or you could do what is the essence of theoretical science: make a model that gives some kind of procedure for computing the answer rather than just measuring and remembering each case. 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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