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Live CEOing #859:

Live CEOing Ep 859: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 7 minutes

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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [Episode 151] »

1 hour 20 minutes

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As a computer scientist and now physics student, I would love to ask you what makes you think that our universe is an automata, and how does it run if the medium is itself? Does the universe have a halting probability or the ruliad? Aren't we just describing our perception of the universe instead of the actual universe? What would Kant say about the ruliad? What is your view on atoms being able of cognition and self-awareness in the human brain by just assembling themselves? The ruliad contains its own encoding function and it is instantiated. The simpler the function, the better. Can we look at free will as probability distributions in the ruliad? What happens in the ruliad during overlap of two free wills? What "runs" the ruliad? Computers run computer programs. Mathematicians do thinking and write on paper to prove theories. In every case I can think of, for information to be "processed," there has to be some sort of processor intelligence doing the work. What is it the equivalent for the ruliad? If there isn't an intelligence running it, why does it follow rules? What if the observer is a computational system? Maybe each species of observer conflates all their threads into a different identity mapping of the ruliad. Each species' encoding function is a distinct identity mapping, speciation's blueprint. Perhaps we should replace school grades with "extent to which you have captured the ruliad." Could you explain what infinity is? View Less »

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Public & Special Events:

Stephen Wolfram Readings: On the Nature of Time »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 18 minutes

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Live CEOing #857:

Live CEOing Ep 858: Design Review of Hypergraph Paclet continued »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 41 minutes

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Live CEOing #857:

Live CEOing Ep 857: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 3 minutes

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Business, Innovation & Managing Life Q&A:

Business, Innovation and Managing Life (October 23, 2024) »

1 hour 12 minutes

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What are your top picks for "startup ideas for Mathematica users"? What's the future looking like for entrepreneurial business ventures and technology ones in particular, given what's happening with tools, capital, etc.? More solopreneurs? More big VC? Neither? In business, do you think it is better to try and start a business with a totally new idea that hasn't been done before or to reinvent an old idea your way? How do you advise young people with a similar all-consuming, intrinsic compulsion as yours, be it in their quest for knowledge/understanding or otherwise, and going about their careers/lives? If you're debating the efficiency of algorithm design with your team, how do you navigate conflicting feedback? Do you have an innately good memory or do you use memory tricks? Did you ever play an instrument? How do you develop speed reading and improve memory for a student or anyone who wishes to be better off intellectually? What financial advice would you offer to someone developing a new business idea with limited capital? When you run a business that provides a web service to international users, are you bound to comply with the laws of all countries from where the service is accessed? Learning to ask better questions seems to be arguably more relevant than ever before. How do you learn to ask better questions? View Less »

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Live CEOing #856:

Live CEOing Ep 856: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Tabular] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 44 minutes

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History of Science & Technology Q&A:

History of Science and Technology Q&A (October 16, 2024) »

1 hour 21 minutes

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If you were transported back in time to say, the time of Aristotle, what would you do? What would you pursue in terms of career/research? Why are Aristotle, Plato and Socrates the names most people think of when thinking about ancient society and science? Almost all of these philosophers were also physicists. How did ancient thinkers like Democritus come up with early ideas about atoms and matter? Do you think letters or published books/essays are more useful for studying history? What about things like newspapers, but particularly pamphlets and journals that are lost or completely undervalued for not being books, even though people at the time would have considered them essential? Would you run off and not drink the poison if you were Socrates? Do you think it's still possible to be a polymath today like da Vinci? I found a place that still produces those postcards you play on a record player. Do you think that would be a good way of storing things like a password or crypto, especially utilizing steganography? If humanity completely falls back to the storage level of knowledge, would we be able to grow our knowledge back fast enough to decipher old SSDs before they decay, or would that be another Alexandria? View Less »

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Public & Special Events:

Wolfram Technology Conference 2024: Stephen Wolfram's Keynote Address »

with Stephen Wolfram | 2 hours 14 minutes

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Research Working Sessions:

Research Working Session: Lambda Exploration »

with Stephen Wolfram, Nik Murzin & James Wiles | 2 hours 45 minutes

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Future of Science & Technology Q&A:

Future of Science and Technology Q&A (October 11, 2024) »

1 hour 24 minutes

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I read that recent advancements in AI research are partly based on McCulloch and Pitts's famous paper on neural nets. Do you think there are more ideas worthwhile to explore again in cybernetics? What is the future of technology about speech recognition? How do I know if I am speaking to a human? The future is crazy! Future of finance! Talk about AI talking to AI for trading. Getting an AI to understand economics seems like it'll be quite a step. What's the difference between a computational and a mathematical model? Have you seen Blaise Agüera y Arcas's recent paper on self-replicating programs? Published on arXiv recently. Wouldn't chaos theory be an example of the computational case? You know the rules of the system but have to set the initial conditions to see how it plays out. How do we prepare for the risk of bots/worms invading everyday life as we become more dependent on technology? View Less »

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Public & Special Events:

Stephen Wolfram Readings: Nestedly Recursive Functions »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 59 minutes

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