ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Around the country, “ math wars ” are raging over attempts to increase equity by playing down calculus from the curriculum in favor of statistics or computer science, or by delaying when students take algebra. For the high school summer program at Harvard, though, only algebra II was required.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

But that certainly doesn’t mean AI can’t importantly help the progress of science. At a very practical level, for example, LLMs provide a new kind of linguistic interface to the computational capabilities that we’ve spent so long building in the Wolfram Language. The system is doing a computation to determine its behavior.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

But at a personal and social level it was still always a lot of fun being around Ed and being exposed to his unique intense opportunistic energy—with its repeating themes but ever-changing directions. And there was one way in which Ed and I were very much aligned: both of our lives were deeply influenced by computers and computing.

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