Business, Innovation & Managing Life Q&A:
Business, Innovation and Managing Life (December 8, 2021) »
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Has Wolfram Research, Inc. done any research on and/or deals connected with household/personal robots such as Amazon's Astro?
A question about your personal data logging: Have you identified any low-hanging fruit that could be broadly useful for "managing life"? Have you done any machine learning on that data?
When did you realize you could do science for a living? Did you ever expect you'd do something else?
Are people the world over losing confidence in fiat money and governments in general?
What do you do to keep up your energy—supplements, omega-3 oils, etc.?
What is the difference between planning for the future and envisioning a future?
I work from 9am to 9pm in programming/math. I feel it's fine, but people say I work too much and that I should give myself a break. Should I listen? When does your working day end?
Do you listen to music while working?
Do you advise young professionals to "play the game," as in follow rules, meet requirements, concede to superiors, be political, etc., in academia or commercial settings? Do you respect people who take this approach?
What do you spend your personal money on? Do you ever treat yourself to something nice, like jewelry, a fine dinner, etc.?
Did you ever have to live with noisy upstairs neighbors?
How do you decide between accuracy, speed and readability of code? Which tradeoff do you take and why?
What's your opinion on company acquisition? Has Wolfram Research ever acquired other companies? If so, how do you quickly integrate an acquired company?
Here's a question. My dad retired very early and he's got no direction, no focus or job. So he's digging himself into a pit. What can I advise him to learn/do that would be worth doing?
In building an app that takes human language as input, do you feel that the current state of the art in parsers and compilers (based on Chomsky/trees/AST from >30 years ago) is in need of a rethink?
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