Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. In some ways it’s a bit like our efforts to construct the ruliad. The whole continuum of all real numbers is “from the outside” in many ways a simple construct.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For three centuries theoretical models had been based on the fairly narrow set of constructs provided by mathematical equations, and particularly calculus. Sometimes they have been based on constructing programs to reproduce behavior. What is that science? In some ways, ruliology is like natural science.

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Futurum

JULY 13, 2022

Mathematically, these records make it fairly easy to construct a supply chain network,” says Zach. There are many branches of maths, including algebra, geometry, calculus and statistics. These data mostly come from compliance reports that companies must submit to be registered on the stock market.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It turns out that it’s possible to construct such a function. Later, we’ll talk about how such a function can be constructed, and the idea of neural nets. And the nontrivial scientific fact is that for an image-recognition task like this we now basically know how to construct functions that do this.

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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.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

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.

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