Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But there is something else too—and it’s from this that the full computational paradigm emerges. And this is the essence of the computational paradigm: to define a model using computational rules (say, for a cellular automaton ) and then explicitly be able to run these to work out their consequences.

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Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 64

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

We can think of the ruliad as the entangled limit of all possible computations—or in effect a representation of all possible formal processes. Many of these consequences are incredibly complicated, and full of computational irreducibility. But now we can make a bridge to mathematics. So is something similar happening with mathematics?

Mathematics 120

Mathematics Physics Computer Algebra 120

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

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. Ed had started with computers in 1956—as part of one of the very first cohorts of programmers. Finally I felt as if there might be a plausible computational foundation for fundamental physics.

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Computer Physics Science Sciences 67

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics 2. Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. It’s all a story of the interplay between underlying computational irreducibility and our nature as computationally bounded observers.

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Computer Energy Physics Construction 92

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

And all those years we’ve been continuing to build a taller and taller tower of capabilities, progressively expanding the scope of our vision and the breadth of our computational coverage of the world: Version 1.0 In the arc of intellectual history it defines a broad, new, computational paradigm for formalizing the world.

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Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 102

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

We’ve worked very hard to make its design as clean and coherent as possible—and to make it a timeless way to elegantly represent computation and everything that can be described through it. Last Friday I fired up Version 1 on an old Mac SE/30 computer (with 2.5 Last Friday I fired up Version 1 on an old Mac SE/30 computer (with 2.5

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Computer Calculus Construction Mathematics 118

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 15, 2022

An argument for traditional grading goes like this: Sure, a single assessment might have a grade on it that doesn't accurately reflect student understanding. This has a connection with the next point. A misplaced trust in statistics. They are the ones for whom this concept will seem singularly unfair.

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Academic Standards Communications Calculus Algebra 52

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 as such, it traces out the entangled consequences of progressively applying all possible computational rules. The Entangled Limit of Everything. I call it the ruliad.

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Physics Mathematics Computer Construction 121