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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

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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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Scientific simulations — an advanced type of computational model that not only represents a real-world phenomenon, but aims to predict how the phenomenon might change under different conditions or parameters. Software — a set of instructions, scripts or programmes that are used to operate computers and perform specific tasks.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A www.learnpython.org ).

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Creating software that works for everyone

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APP — a computer program used to perform a specific function (e.g., SOFTWARE — the set of programs and other information that enables a computer or app to function. USER INTERFACE — the place where an end user interacts with a computer (e.g., ACCESSIBLE — can be obtained easily and used by everyone. a webpage or app display).

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

But in a quirk of history that I now realize had tremendous significance, I had just spent a couple of years creating a big computer system that was ultimately a direct forerunner of our modern Wolfram Language. So for me it was obvious: if I couldn’t figure out things myself with math, I should use a computer. Computation theory.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

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.