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Should you Teach Typing? And Does it Work?

Ask a Tech Teacher

It has become a familiar argument between those who believe children intuitively learn to type (“see them on smartphones and iPads–they don’t need help”) and those of us who believe instruction makes them better, faster. This topic that is close to my tech teacher soul.

Teaching 153
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The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

Introducing Astro Computation. Astronomy has been a driving force for computation for more than 2000 years (from the Antikythera device on)… and in Version 13.2 But what’s new now is astronomical computation fully integrated into the system. But what’s new now is astronomical computation fully integrated into the system.

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Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics

Stephen Wolfram

But some of it has immediate practical implications, notably for parallel, distributed, nondeterministic and quantum-style computing. The key point is that a given event cannot happen unless all the inputs to it are available, i.e. have already been computed. Some of what this will lead us to is deeply abstract.

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

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?