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Are there any models that predict how society behaves?
What knowledge helps weather prediction and how (like pressure, temperature, wind, distances, etc.)?
When you (Stephen Wolfram) count in your head, do you count verbally or visually (or another way)? Feynman wrote an interesting story about this in one of his books.
If you write enough errors that cancel each other out perfectly, your code is perfect.
How do we improve our inductions toward producing creative results for science?
Which side of the quarter has better aerodynamics? If a quarter were flipped by a human hand 100,000 times on a windy day and another 100,000 times on a non-windy day, would the overall outcome still be 50/50 heads or tails in both instances?
How can you end up with a different set of rules while describing a system with definite and observable behavior? No matter whether there is alien consciousness or not, the rules will remain the same.
How do you spell that? "Ooogleriffousness"?
Why can't logic be easier to understand? What I mean is, all this academic stuff that teaches logic... it seems all Greek to me. When I try to learn more, I get bored fast because they explain it too complicatedly.
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