Futurum

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Published: While art and science are often separated in academia, there is a lot to be learnt by considering them together. The field combines biology and psychology to understand the roots of how people think and behave. Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art? Most researchers love to talk about their work.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. From mathematics.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Scientific model — a conceptual or mathematical representation of a real-world phenomenon that allows scientists to study the phenomenon in more detail. From miniscule sub-atomic particles to gargantuan black holes, the world of science deals with a dramatic range of sizes. Research computing is a sub-discipline of computer science.

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Research Research Biology Chemistry 81

Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. And—it should be said at the outset—we’re still only at the very beginning of nailing down those technical details and setting up the difficult mathematics and formalism they involve.) Experiencing the Ruliad. But in the ruliad there are no choices.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

So now it’s natural to wonder: How far will this go? My goal here is to explore some of the science, technology—and philosophy—of what we can expect from AIs. And indeed it increasingly seems as if the “secret” that nature uses to make the complexity it so often shows is exactly to operate according to the rules of simple programs.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Statistical Mechanics and Simple Programs Back in 1973 I never really managed to do much science on the very first computer I used. And finally I gave what the 22-year-old me thought at the time was the most plausible explanation: All of this was in a sense rooted in a traditional mathematical physics style of thinking.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Or you could do what is the essence of theoretical science: make a model that gives some kind of procedure for computing the answer rather than just measuring and remembering each case. Then we might make a mathematical guess, like that perhaps we should use a straight line as a model: We could pick different straight lines.

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