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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And I spent much of the summer of 1972 writing my own (unseen by anyone else for 30+ years) Concise Directory of Physics that included a rather stiff page about energy, mentioning entropy—along with the heat death of the universe. For a couple of months I didn’t look seriously at the book.

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The Five Question Summary revisited

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

The result was something I called the Five Question Summary : a simple evaluation that consists of just five questions, developed using the science of motivation, and which can be administered in less than 5 minutes and which was designed to be given multiple times through a semester. I'm naming the CSV sample_5qs.csv.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

Figuring out more and more science. And painstakingly laying out page after page of what on May 14, 2002, would be published as A New Kind of Science. I’ve written before (even in the book itself ) about the intellectual journey involved in the creation of A New Kind of Science. Developing new kinds of computational diagrams.

Science 62
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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

From projects that get completed within months of their conception, to projects that rely on years (and sometimes even decades) of systematic development. Our R&D portfolio is broad. You can define your own LLM functions in Wolfram Language. is completely reproducible; do the same computation twice and you’ll get the same result.

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