Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. In “quant finance”—which, yes, coincidentally sounds a bit like “quantum”—it’s for example common to estimate prices from looking at the effects of all possible paths, say approximated by Monte Carlo.).

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. In “quant finance”—which, yes, coincidentally sounds a bit like “quantum”—it’s for example common to estimate prices from looking at the effects of all possible paths, say approximated by Monte Carlo.).

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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). Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra. Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments. And he says “There’s a problem.

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