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Live CEOing #865:
Live CEOing Ep 865: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Short/Elided String and More] »
with Stephen Wolfram | 57 minutes
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Public & Special Events:
Wolfram Notebook Assistant + LLM Kit Announcement and Demo with Stephen Wolfram »
with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 44 minutes
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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (December 4, 2024) »
1 hour 26 minutes
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What is a very interesting "big picture" discovery in your minimal model for biological evolution that answers questions about Darwin's natural selection? How does it change the narrative?
So the most successful organism is you and me, because we have the potential to organize/find solutions for this überabzählbar unendliche chaos, and for that we get rewarded, according to Blaise Pascal's wager.
Who created the first map?
Do you find morphological attractors in your simple models of biological evolution? There is evidence that morphospace might be like a hyporuliad, according to work by Prof. Michael Levin with planaria.
Are LLMs disconnected from humans in the ruliad?
LLMs' view of reality is mostly language and texts, right?
My experience with art makes me guess illusions tend to be more of a lower/hardware level, since they aren't much subject to qualia.
Do you think it's possible Egyptians had a basic light bulb (Dendera light bulb)?
Were there prominent researchers in ancient civilizations who often referred to "things of the past," or were they mainly working based off of new ideas and hypotheses?
How much of ancient myth reflects technology, like Hephaestus making a giant rock-throwing android?
There's a hieroglyph that looks like a snake inside a light bulb.
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Live CEOing #864:
Live CEOing Ep 864: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Multipanel Plots & More] »
with Stephen Wolfram | 59 minutes
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Business, Innovation & Managing Life Q&A:
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (November 27, 2024) »
1 hour 9 minutes
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If your last name was something like Smith, would you still have named your company after your name or gone with something different? How does one decide that? Are there certain criteria to fit so there aren't a bunch of "Smith" companies?
Actually, now that I think about it, it's strange we don't have a dozen "Einstein" incorporations.
Reminds me of the old Dilbert series where the pointy-haired boss says "The name of the project is the most important thing!" before they even know what the product will be.
So a name is like a joke: if you have to explain it, then it does not work?
Little like "complex numbers." Just the name sounds scary to students.
Can names be copyrighted?
What role does AI play in brainstorming or generating company names? Will AIs start naming and running their own company?
With a name like Wolfram, people will think physics. Wolfram is becoming synonymous with cutting-edge physics.
Are there any specific naming conventions or patterns that tend to perform well in the tech industry?
Have you tried asking an LLM for business advice?
Do you think trends in naming, like all the "-ify" startups, will hurt a brand in the long run?
What advice would you give to a computer scientist that wants to pursue synthetic biology?
That's important to have a way to gauge biological evolution as a state of increasing complexity.
How do you determine how innovative something is? What are the key criteria for assessing innovation?
What's the best way to test a business idea before going all in?
I have experienced trouble at university learning electrical engineering. I can now understand the intent to teach the intuition in EE is not translated to coherent actions by the teachers. What are the pitfalls experts should avoid in order to maximize the quality of their teaching?
I've always wanted to sequence my genome! Its amazing we have made this possible!
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Future of Science & Technology Q&A:
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (November 22, 2024) »
1 hour 7 minutes
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Since you talked about the history of quantum mechanics, how about the future?
Will AI tutors take over all education?
Will traditional classrooms still exist 20 years from now, or will everything be online?
Are there enough guardrails in place for a K-12 application of AI tutors?
So many kids need real information to grow on, which can be provided by AI, but there still needs to be human encouragement to motivate!
Do you think that medical ethics will change with the rapid advance of gene therapies?
Yes, scientists have indeed created glow-in-the-dark rabbits.
Could bacteria or viruses evolve to outsmart all our medical advancements?
Will AI-driven biological evolution make Darwinian evolution obsolete ? How do we prevent the automatic synthesis of biological virus by AI?
When (if at all) do you anticipate we'll have mostly "softwarized" humans themselves, meaning we can reprogram ourselves just as easily as we reprogram computer systems?
Speaking of biological evolution, can this help us humans break the age limit, let's say over two centuries?
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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (November 20, 2024) »
1 hour 33 minutes
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Can you tell us anything about the history of quantum mechanics?
What's the craziest historical debate between physicists about quantum theory?
Thoughts on extending Kirchhoff's blackbody experiments to astronomical bodies?
Was the Copenhagen interpretation a mistake, in regard to how paradoxical results were "glossed over"?
Can you tell us more about Schrödinger's cat? What is actually happening?
Aren't zero-point fluctuations an absolute reference frame and therefore a fatal blow to relativity?
Did Feynman's work on quantum electrodynamics completely change the game, or was it just building on others?
What do you think about Wheeler's participatory universe idea?
You got to meet all these neat people Mr. W! It's nice to hear your stories about meeting them.
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Live CEOing #863:
Live CEOing Ep 863: Language Design in Wolfram Language [EntityValue[..., "Date"] & More] »
with Stephen Wolfram | 47 minutes
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Personal Video Worklogs:
November 15, 2024 [Foundations of Biological Evolution: More Results & More Surprises] »
with Stephen Wolfram | 4 hours, 15 minutes
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [Episode 152] »
1 hour 22 minutes
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In class, we learned that light behaves like both a wave and a particle. How is that even possible?
My teacher said there's no "up" or "down" in space. Why is that, and how do astronauts navigate?
Is the universe as small as it is big?
When will we reach the physical computer chip size limit? I heard in two, three years. I also heard that quantum computer chips are still far away. Is this true? Can you elaborate on it?
How do you expect propagation of light in your model to work out? Will you get frequency-dependent propagation like in a normal elastic solid or independent propagation?
If light has no mass, how can gravity, like from a black hole, pull it in? Doesn't that break the rules?
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Live CEOing #862:
Live CEOing Ep 862: Design Review of Word, Language, and PhoneticSymbol »
with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 13 minutes
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