PHYSICS! BLOG!

JULY 6, 2017

I was really, really fortunate to have my awesome, flexible, and thoughtful colleague Alan Kim teaching the other 2 sections and collaborating with me all year. Explain energy ideas in words and construct arguments that use diagrams as evidence. Distinguish, in terms of energy, between phase and temperature changes.

Chemistry 40

Chemistry Energy Physics Math 40

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

Then for each function (or other construct in the language) there are pages that explain the function, with extensive examples. One new construct added in Version 13.1 —and And now there’s a way to specify that, using Threaded : In a sense, Threaded is part of a new wave of symbolic constructs that have “ambient effects” on lists.

Computer 103

Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 103

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 23, 2023

And for example doing a very simple piece of machine learning , we again get a symbolic object which can be used as a function and applied to an argument to get a result: And so it is with LLMFunction. By giving a second argument to LLMFunction you can say you want actual, structured computable output. are symbolic objects.

Technology 69

Technology Argumentation Computer Publication 69

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

we have a new symbolic construct, Threaded , that effectively allows you to easily generalize listability. You can give Threaded as an argument to any listable function, not just Plus and Times : &#10005. we’re adding SymmetricDifference : find elements that (in the 2-argument case) are in one list or the other, but not both.

Calculus 114

Calculus Construction Computer Argumentation 114

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. But what’s important for our purposes here is that in the setup Carnot constructed he basically ended up introducing the Second Law.

Energy 88

Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena. Once again, I had no idea this was “out there”, and certainly I would never have been able to construct it myself. Yes, there can be a lot of flexibility in this model. There is, however, a subtlety here.

Science 123

Science Sciences Computer Mathematics 123

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

When most working mathematicians do mathematics it seems to be typical for them to reason as if the constructs they’re dealing with (whether they be numbers or sets or whatever) are “real things”. And we can think of that ultimate machine code as operating on things that are in effect just abstract constructs—very much like in mathematics.

Mathematics 121

Mathematics Physics Computer Algebra 121

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

We wanted social studies standards to have the flexibility to speak to culturally responsive pedagogies and, on the other hand, not let the federal government tell local or state governments how curricula should be created. The C3 Framework was released in 2013. Then, over time, C3 gained momentum in all the right ways. Where's the energy?

Learning 158

Learning Energy Government Flexibility 158

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”. In some types of rules it’s basically always there , by construction. 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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Computer Energy Physics Construction 92

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 15, 2022

be the primary measure of success in a course, and some measure of grace and flexibility will be included along with high standards and "rigor" And for other instructors, this concept raises more questions than answers. For some instructors, it provides hope that student growth will (finally!) A misplaced trust in statistics.

Academic Standards 52

Academic Standards Communications Calculus Argumentation 52

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Its key idea is to think of things in the world as being constructed from some kind of simple-to-describe elements—say geometrical objects—and then to use something like logical reasoning to work out what will happen with them. It’s not difficult to construct multiway system models. There are multiway Turing machines.

Science 65

Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 65

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Its key idea is to think of things in the world as being constructed from some kind of simple-to-describe elements—say geometrical objects—and then to use something like logical reasoning to work out what will happen with them. It’s not difficult to construct multiway system models. There are multiway Turing machines.

Physics 64

Physics Science Sciences Mathematics 64

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 20, 2021

has a very flexible way of representing its results, that allows for different numbers of variables, different numbers of solutions, etc. &#10005. Having this as a single function makes it easier to use in functional programming constructs like this: &#10005. This constructs a 2-level family tree: &#10005.

Computer 52

Computer Construction Physics Technology 52

The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The Department of Education is a pretty new construct relatively speaking. This has been widely covered in the press so right at the start, the argument fizzles out. DeVos Tweeted she is ready to do just that. It wasn’t in place when I started school. Those who know the story, know it didn’t play out the way Shanker intended.

Publication 63

Publication Schooling Argumentation Primary 63