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STEM Education Guide
MARCH 9, 2023
STEM, an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, is an essential component of the educational experience. Famous biologist Judith Ramaley coined the acronym in 2001 when she was the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 5, 2024
But what I want to do here is to discuss what amount to deeper questions about AI in science. Three centuries ago science was transformed by the idea of representing the world using mathematics. What if all we ever want to know about are things that align with computational reducibility?
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Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Many would say that modern exact science was launched in the 1600s with the introduction of what we can call the “ mathematical paradigm ”: the idea that things in the world can be described by mathematical equations—and that their behavior can be determined by finding solutions to these equations.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Many would say that modern exact science was launched in the 1600s with the introduction of what we can call the “ mathematical paradigm ”: the idea that things in the world can be described by mathematical equations—and that their behavior can be determined by finding solutions to these equations.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Since the standard Wolfram Language evaluator evaluates arguments first (“leftmost-innermost evaluation”), it therefore won’t terminate in this case—even though there are branches in the multiway evaluation (corresponding to “outermost evaluation”) that do terminate. If you set , then you set , you should get (not ) if you asked for.
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
In 2015 Ed told me a nice story about his time at Caltech: In 1952–53, I was a student in Linus Pauling’s class where he lectured Freshman Chemistry at Caltech. “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. Nowadays we’d call it the trie (or prefix tree) data structure.
Stephen Wolfram
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. How does one tie all this down with rigorous, mathematical-style proofs? But one never quite gets there ; it always seems to need something extra. But the mystery of the Second Law has never gone away.
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