Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

In 1845 Kelvin (as we’ll call him) had spent some time in Paris (primarily at at a lab that was measuring properties of steam for the French government), and there he’d learned about Carnot’s work from Clapeyron’s paper (at first he couldn’t get a copy of Carnot’s actual book). But first we have to go back a bit in the story.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But say all we’ve got is the data, and we don’t know what underlying laws govern it. It’s not obvious that it would be feasible to find the path of the steepest descent on the “weight landscape” But calculus comes to the rescue. In this particular case, we can use known laws of physics to work it out.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But among the examples I’ve at least begun to investigate are metamathematics, molecular biology, evolutionary biology, molecular computing, neuroscience, machine learning, immunology, linguistics, economics and distributed computing. Chemistry / Molecular Biology. Evolutionary Biology. There are many.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

But there’s really just one principle that governs all these things: that whatever method we have to prepare or analyze states of a system is somehow computationally bounded. The Mechanoidal Phase and Bulk Molecular Biology The Second Law has long had an uneasy relationship with biology. There are several issues here.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But among the examples I’ve at least begun to investigate are metamathematics, molecular biology, evolutionary biology, molecular computing, neuroscience, machine learning, immunology, linguistics, economics and distributed computing. Chemistry / Molecular Biology. Evolutionary Biology. There are many.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And just like the speed of light governs the maximum rate at which effects can propagate in physical space, so similarly in our models there’s a “ maximum entanglement speed ” at which effects can propagate in branchial space. But what about other models of computation—like cellular automata or register machines or lambda calculus?

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). He assumed that the epoxy was at the request of the US government, to defeat Soviet efforts—and he didn’t believe me when I said I thought it was much more likely there to defeat Intel. They classified it.

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