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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [Episode 154] »

1 hour 16 minutes

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My question is, When we transfer an electric charge to a conducting sphere, does this charge cause some metal atoms to become ions? If they do not become ions, where do the electrons go? If they become ions, then their chemical properties must also change. Which answer is correct? In the recent LA fires, I've seen buildings burned but plants and trees next to them just fine. Is there some physical or chemical reason why the plants are fine and buildings not? Do photons collide? The light coming to us and the light going back to the source? I have a question about antimatter. What do we use to contain antimatter? How would you think about photons as a 10-year-old? What's an easy explanation? What is antimatter anyway? Is it supposed to be something that pairs up with matter to maintain some kind of conservation law? Are we unintentionally leaving behind a time capsule with light waves? Will scientists of the future be able to look back in time through light? View Less »
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History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (January 8, 2025) »

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​​Any progress on your understanding of Buddhist philosophy from digging into East Asian history? How do we address the interesting ways that footnotes in history have led to knowledge? How do we address multiple issues of publication within different texts and the problems of translation? What happens to the "origin" of a text? Do you think weird names are an advantage in academics? E.g. one of the translators of the new edition of Philosophical Investigations is P. M. S. Hacker, not something I would have remembered otherwise. Who came up with floating-point arithmetic and what is it? How would you think about scientific collaboration in the age before technology? How did ancient researchers/scientists collaborate with each other? Do you think there is hidden mathematics or geometry in biblical writings or the Egyptian pyramids? If you woke up tomorrow in ancient Greece with a pouch of gold coins, what sort of computing machines do you think you could have fabricated? Why is there only one species of human beings; isn't that kind of absurd? With hindsight, would "Computational Principles of Natural Philosophy" have been a good title for NKS? View Less »
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Live CEOing #866:
Live CEOing Ep 866: Language Design in Wolfram Language [GeneratePassword and More] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 38 minutes

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Personal Video Worklogs:
January 5, 2025 [Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 4 hours, 18 minutes

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Personal Video Worklogs:
January 4, 2025 [Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 7 hours, 48 minutes

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Personal Video Worklogs:
January 3, 2025 [Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 2 hours, 47 minutes

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Future of Science & Technology Q&A:
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (January 3, 2025) »

1 hour 26 minutes

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What is your view on LLMs with regard to computational irreducibility—i.e. will they hit a computational irreducibility wall anytime soon? Do you think there's any low-hanging fruit in computational psychology? I'm not seeing how intuition is much different than LLMs. It's hard to identify what exact elements created an intuition. They have made the LLM be so nice to keep one engaged. It feels real when talking to advanced voice mode until it becomes repetitive, then at that point I feel inclined to program it to act more realistic. I prefer the skeptical collaborator LLM personality. Would creating consciousness in a machine and then conducting mind experiments on it be immoral? I feel like it's an autonomous entity at that point. As AI becomes a dominant tool for information dissemination, how do we ensure that it supports critical thinking rather than passive consumption? What role should education play in preparing individuals to critically engage with AI-generated content? Does the use of bots and LLMs in sensitive areas—education, healthcare or governance—risk dehumanizing these vital sectors? Are LLMs changing how people do physics now, especially on the frontier areas, say in coming up with a unified theory? Instead of risking massive amounts of capital on projects that might fail, can we use LLMs to scope out the interesting pockets of reducibility so that greater percentages of our investments succeed? Can you speak to how NOAA is using cellular automata to simulate weather patterns? The way you ask LLMs questions is an art. Asking it the same thing using different words has brought back interesting results. It would be an interesting question to know if the conceptualization of concepts by LLMs is limited by language, as scientists say the LLMs create an intermediate conceptualization. Assuming merging human with digital AI would be possible, what do you think would be the effects in terms of "observing" reality? ​​Notebook Assistant IS revolutionary! Thank you, I look forward to the next iterations. View Less »
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Personal Video Worklogs:
January 2, 2025 [Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour, 28 minutes

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Personal Video Worklogs:
January 1, 2025 [Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 2 hours, 18 minutes

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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:
Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [Episode 153] »

1 hour 27 minutes

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What is computation? How does matter go from randomly moving particles to something that starts "computing"? My son watched The Matrix for the first time the other night. He asked me, "Are we living in the matrix?" How can we know one way or another? ​​Is binary the most effective form of computation? Do you think we will ever be able to observe a graviton? Is it possible a "universe" exists that has no equivalent of "mass," which could be in the same place and time as we are but is not observable by us? Any thoughts on the developing situation with dark matter? Why do all objects take a spherical shape in space, but the solar systems and galaxies take a disc-like shape? Please share some more insights while you and Christopher were working on the movie Arrival as science consultants. Tell us more about the ideas from the movie and how they are currently being developed. If there's antimatter, is there antimass? Can we build a massage chair based on gravitational waves? Could the differences in time perception between ourselves and aliens affect our abilities to interact and be a contributing factor or solution to the Fermi paradox? View Less »
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Future of Science & Technology Q&A:
Future of Science and Technology Q&A (December 20, 2024) »

1 hour 26 minutes

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​​​​Do you foresee Notebook Assistant breaking out of the notebook in the future? It could be a great general voice assistant which knows about me personally and works like Iron Man's Jarvis. Men on Mars by 2030? Can you talk about the future of your Physics Project? What's the future of an observer? In many models of the universe, there are always small variations that lead to a division by zero, which leads the programmer to put in a fix. Could black holes be that fix in our universe? What is your prediction for the future of science and technology in 2025? What is an area physics might leak into that will be unexpected in the future? Will you ever write another book like A New Kind of Science? Dr. Wolfram could choose a dozen of his blog posts and publish them as a book and it would make a terrific book. ​​​​How might LLMs enhance future scientific development? What direction do you envision for tools like Mathematica, given that LLMs can interact with humans without requiring them to know how to program? What is your opinion on ethical frameworks being applied to AI tools? What sort of ethics do you think should be applied when considering machine learning/AI tool research? View Less »
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Business, Innovation & Managing Life Q&A:
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (December 18, 2024) »

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For the new Notebook Assistant, what is the process for making a new product like that? When making a new product, is it harder to create something brand new with no competition or easier when there are competing products to compare? Good product; tbh I signed up and took it for a test drive yesterday. Great to chat and work Mathematica for a newbie like me; excellent progress in a short time. I bought a Wolfram subscription for my daughter who is in Year 7. However, it seems it is not very straightforward in usability for a 12-year-old who can use in her study intuitively. Would you consider enhancing or introducing new tools for a younger audience like my daughter? At least provide feature of ask random question in plain English and get concise answer with graphics to study science (chemistry, physics, biology). Do you ever watch funny cat videos? What do you think about Nvidia's CEO Jensen's approach to sending all through emails and having like 60 people directly report to him all day with email reports, and he is managing the whole company? I would love to see software development discussions from the ground up. Sort of a Live Software Engineering series to complement the content of Live CEOing. E.g. building the WordCloud function. I like seeing the design reviews during Live CEOing, but I'm always wondering how the functions actually get implemented in code and how software developers approach programming Wolfram Language functions. Do you have a cat? How many meetings would you say you attend a day? How do you get the most out of them? ​​​​Apparently there is a small island inhabited by a throng of cats. They survive because the local fish jump out of the water onto the beach. I saw a TikTok saying if you eat eggs raised on farms with cats on there, you can kick the allergy!! Based on a random week earlier last month, you average about 12 meetings a week when they're "normal sized." What are your tips for consistently practicing self-discipline? View Less »
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