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Stephen Wolfram

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4 years

I never expected this: finally we may have a path to the fundamental theory of physics...and it's beautiful

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1 year

2.5 months later...in collaboration with @openAI , ChatGPT gets its "Wolfram superpowers"!

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You never know where science will take you... Yes, I'm studying images of cats in party hats. Stay tuned...

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What is ChatGPT doing ... and why does it work? From the lore of neural nets to what Aristotle didn't get to ... here's my version of the story:

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Stephen Wolfram

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11 months

Less hair, thinner monitor ... but the code still runs! Celebrating 35 years of Mathematica, building a taller and taller tower of technology, with thanks to our users & supporters. Many things ahead of their time 35 years ago still are... and there's so very very much more...

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It's been the single longest-unfinished project of my life. But after 50 years I think I've now figured out the Second Law of thermodynamics ... and this is the story of how I got there:

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1 year

How does the impressively human-like #ChatGPT get computational knowledge superpowers? Give it a Wolfram|Alpha neural implant!

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1 year

The explanation of ChatGPT that I wrote is now a printed book ... (hopefully) available in bookstores everywhere! And it's my thinnest book ever... (It's also an ebook)

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7 months

Two tiny black holes merge in our Wolfram Physics Project...

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7 months

A rendering of the beginning of our universe (along one rulial+quantum branch) in our Wolfram Physics Project---and the first steps in the construction of space. (The nodes are not in space; they're what space is made of.)

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Stephen Wolfram

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6 years

Just copied a notebook (on a floppy) from Mathematica V1 (1988) to V11 (2018) ... and it JUST WORKED! (And the code still runs!)

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9 months

Inspired by a book cover in 1972 ... half a century later I think I finally understand the Second Law ... and today published my own book about it.

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Stephen Wolfram

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2 years

My work on the foundations of metamathematics is now a book---that's ready for preorder. All those pictures of metamathematical space (AKA slices of the ruliad) look pretty great in print!

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7 months

"How to Think Computationally about AI, The Universe and Everything": my valiant attempt to compress half of century of thinking into an 18-minute TED talk...

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4 years

Join me for a livestreamed explanation of what we've figured out about fundamental physics ... followed by Q&A: 2pm ET today: @Twitch + #wolframphysics

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4 years

The fact that I've been quiet on Twitter for the past couple of months is not a sign that I haven't been doing anything; actually it's a sign that I've been working more intensely than ever .... as a result of an unexpected science breakthrough I'm hoping to share soon...

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Stephen Wolfram

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1 year

A sign of a project approaching completion: beginning to reshelve books...

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Stephen Wolfram

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7 years

A New Kind of Science (15th anniversary today) just became free, open, and high-res on the web!

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1 year

They're out! All three of my pieces about the Second Law of thermodynamics are finally posted---all 451 pages of them. [Hmmm, I guess that's why they took a few months to write :) ]

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7 months

Turns out expression evaluation is ultimately just like fundamental physics! Causal graphs, reference frames, recursion in space and time, branchlike conflicts, multiway evaluation, ... A new world of CS-meets-physics...

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Stephen Wolfram

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9 days

Found some new friends today in the computational universe:

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5 years

Something I did at the Wolfram Summer School: an off-the-cuff 90-minute lecture on the history of mathematics from before Babylon to now...

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Biological evolution. Machine learning. Why do adaptive processes actually work? Finally found what seems like a good minimal model for biological evolution....

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1 year

Where did the Second Law of thermodynamics come from, and how did people decide it was true? It's a surprisingly tangled 150-year tale ... which I think I've now been able to untangle...

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Stephen Wolfram

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4 years

#Mathematica is 32 today! Thank you to everyone who's helped on this journey. We're proud of how Mathematica has been used, how it has grown and how its development is still accelerating. Every year more multi-faceted :)

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9 months

Hmmm, that's interesting. Going through some archives for an upcoming historical piece I'm writing.

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Stephen Wolfram

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4 years

Those pictures in my new book A Project to Find the Fundamental Theory of Physics came out pretty nice!

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2 months

I've been wondering: can AI solve science? I just did some analysis...

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1 year

Why is the Second Law of thermodynamics true (and is it always)? Now we can see it's a fascinating and surprising story of computational irreducibility, observer theory and more...

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5 years

I was given a book that Alan Turing owned ... and in it I found a piece of paper ... and there began a story ... with many stories within...

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7 months

A few quantum branches at the very beginning of the universe in our Wolfram Physics Project ... building a piece of branchial space, and a piece of quantum reality.

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1 year

What is ChatGPT doing...and why does it work?

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3 years

Is the concept of numbers inevitable? If aliens arrive in a starship, will they have numbers? Unraveling a surprising story of the foundations of physics, mathematics and human experience...

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Stephen Wolfram

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6 months

Almost finished with a new project that's unleashed some "computational animals" unlike any I've ever encountered before...

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Stephen Wolfram

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4 years

Getting ready to send off the ~800 page #WolframPhysics book to be printed. Just finished creating 3394 raw index entries [indexing is still a useful art, even if younger people don't always seem to notice that books have indices :) ]

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Stephen Wolfram

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6 days

Foundations of physics, mathematics, computing ... now biology! The ruliad is on a roll.... (Up next: machine learning ?)

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Stephen Wolfram

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11 months

Notebooks meet LLMs 🤝 Introducing Chat Notebooks

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Stephen Wolfram

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2 years

Excited to have officially launched the Wolfram Institute today. The dawn of a new way of getting science done...

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Stephen Wolfram

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1 month

In case you missed today's eclipse, there are always more to come (at least for the next few hundred million years). Here's where the total eclipses will be for the next 100 years:

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Stephen Wolfram

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3 years

Just had a lot of fun exploring the simplest multiway (i.e. nondeterministic) Turing machines. As elsewhere in the computational universe, turns out they can do more than you'd ever imagine. (Oh, and they give me new intuition about quantum observers)

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Stephen Wolfram

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4 years

Having been a remote CEO for 29 years ... I might have some tips about remote work ... so Ask Me Anything on Reddit, Monday, March 16th at 3 pm ET

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Stephen Wolfram

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5 months

Today is Spikey Picking Day ... choosing the logo for Mathematica / Wolfram Language Version 14 from spikeys dressed for 2024...

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5 months

Introducing "observer theory"---a core piece of the intellectual framework for my current view of science...

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Stephen Wolfram

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3 years

Just finished a very full day of Wolfram Summer School final presentations ... and, since these are modern times, we liveminted an NFT to commemorate each presentation...

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1 year

Thanks to ideas from @WolframPhysics I'm now (50 yrs later) working on finishing a project I started in 1972: understanding/formalizing/generalizing the Second Law of Thermodynamics...

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Stephen Wolfram

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6 years

#Mathematica30 : Reprising a photo from 30 years ago and like Mathematica 1.0 I'm happy to report that I'm still working fine.

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Stephen Wolfram

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4 years

After many years of computation and lots of output, the JHC function has sadly now halted. RIP John Conway (1937-2020)

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Well, actually, 6 years later, turns out it was a secret development plan...

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6 months

Yet another thing made possible by the multicomputational approach from our Wolfram Physics Project: aggregation and tiling as multicomputational processes

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Stephen Wolfram

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7 years

Are All Fish the Same Shape If You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of "On Growth and Form"

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Stephen Wolfram

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3 years

I never expected to have anything useful to say about "consciousness". But thanks to #WolframPhysics maybe now I do (and in addition to philosophical progress, there may be scientific & practical implications)

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Stephen Wolfram

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8 months

Thanks for all the birthday wishes & compliments! Happy to report I'm still feeling young. Feel like a gift? Share all that stuff I'm creating, producing, etc.: spread it, post it, wiki-add it---and use it!

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4 years

Maybe going faster than light is not a physical impossibility, but "just" a (perhaps irreducibly difficult) engineering problem. Exploring what our models say, complete with space tunnels, space demons and more...

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Stephen Wolfram

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3 years

The @wolframphysics Project is one year old today---and things are going spectacularly! Not only do we seem to firmly be on the right track for fundamental physics, but our formalism also has immediate other applications...

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Stephen Wolfram

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2 months

AI, AI, what can you do?

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4 months

In my day job ... the 36-year story continues: announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica! (Bringing to fruition lots of work, innovation, etc. + 300 hours of open livestreamed design sessions)

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4 years

Telling the story of how the Physics Project came to be:

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1 year

In the middle of a very busy week ... chanced upon a picture that reminded me of simpler times ... and that enthusiasm has always been a thing for me...

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8 years

Launching a new generation of programmers: Wolfram Programming Lab—for kids, adults, anyone!

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Stephen Wolfram

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3 years

Frustrated tonight to find knowledge out of reach. I have some new ideas about economics and want to look at books about it. But 20 yrs ago, I put them on a top shelf, and now ladder access is blocked by furniture :(

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Stephen Wolfram

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11 months

Celebrating 35 Years of Mathematica

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4 years

As a physicist for Halloween?

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3 years

Happy 33rd birthday, Mathematica ... so much built, so much opportunity to come

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Stephen Wolfram

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4 years

Delighted to announce the launch of the Research Affiliate and Junior Research Affiliate programs for the Wolfram Physics Project...

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3 years

How does the old idea of numbers work with the new idea of multicomputation? Remarkably basic math gives surprisingly complex behavior ... that relates to the foundations of physics and much more...

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Stephen Wolfram

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9 years

Happy 27th birthday, Mathematica! So much invented, so much new ... but V1 code still runs! http://t.co/rBjv4YvD67 http://t.co/pdJxmosA78

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5 months

Future of Science and Technology Q&A (December 22, 2023)

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11 months

Announcing Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica: LLM tech and a *lot* more...

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4 months

It's great to have so many muses out there ... thanks for all the encouragement/engagement/interest in 2023! It's been a productive year for me (4 books published, 222,000+ words posted, 230+ hours of livestreaming, ...) Looking forward to building more artifacts from the…

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Stephen Wolfram

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4 years

Figuring out what Euclid did ... 2300 years later. A spinoff to a spinoff of #WolframPhysics : introducing "empirical metamathematics" to learn about metamathematical space...

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1 year

Thinking about "Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History---or Not?" took me on quite a science-technology-philosophy journey...

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Stephen Wolfram

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5 years

I'm always seeking the productive life ... now I'm posting some details of the personal infrastructure I've built to achieve it

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Stephen Wolfram

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6 years

Remembering my old friend Richard Feynman, who would have been 100 today:

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2 years

Introducing The Ruliad---almost by definition the biggest object in metascience ... think of it as the limit of all accessible abstraction, encompassing all possible views of our universe, our mathematics, and more...

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They're the ruliad champions! The "busy beavers" of the (symmetric 3-color) cellular automaton world ... the rules that live longest before dying out... [How does that rule "know" to die out after 2194 steps??]

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5 years

After 16 years ... a paperback! Though there's a certain irreducibility to the content...

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4 years

Launching #WolframPhysics Project Bulletins: informal reports of progress (like the concept of the original scientific journal articles of the 1600s---reinterpreted for modern times)

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3 years

Getting ready for some major exploration in the computational universe ... so added a few more cores to my home computer setup...

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3 years

A major spinoff from our @wolframphysics ... with potential to revolutionize quite a few fields. Introducing multicomputation as a 4th general paradigm for theoretical science. Very important, even if not easy to understand...

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Stephen Wolfram

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6 years

After 2000+ years, we now know the simplest possible axiom for logic: ((p.q).r).(p.((p.r).p))=r. But can we understand the proof?

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3 years

Liveminted for NFT posterity some cellular automata plucked from the computational universe. Even after all these years it still amazes me what simple rules can produce...

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Stephen Wolfram

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7 years

Had fun helping with science for #ArrivalMovie #WhyAreTheyHere

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Stephen Wolfram

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4 years

Time to cheer the world up with some physics? I'm getting close to announcing my new physics results ... capping several months of "I'd rather be phyzzing"...

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Stephen Wolfram

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8 years

I think I untangled the (fascinating) tale of Ada Lovelace!

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Stephen Wolfram

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4 years

Forty years ago I used to give physics seminars all the time. But after a very long gap ... I just gave one again yesterday at Harvard on the (unsurprising) topic of "A Surprisingly Promising Approach to the Fundamental Theory of Physics

Harvard Black Hole Initiative: A Surprisingly Promising Approach to a...

Stephen Wolfram delivers a special colloquium to the Harvard Black Hole Initiative center on the Wolfram Physics Project.Stay up-to-date on this project by v...

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4 years

Getting ready to give the opening keynote for the annual #WolframTechConf for the 31st time ... first time virtual....

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5 years

Rare use of a suit: testifying at the Senate about #AI and the internet

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2 years

It's 20 years... and I'm happy to report, from the simplest rules to the whole universe, the process of discovery is still my very favorite thing!

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Stephen Wolfram

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10 months

Just finished our 21st annual Wolfram Summer School: 3 weeks of extreme professoring for me and 66 almost-thesis-scope projects by 66 students from 28 countries around the world

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3 years

Celebrating a third of a century of Mathematica, and looking forward...

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4 years

So exciting to see how quickly things are moving with #WolframPhysics ... Makes me think of quantum mechanics circa 1925. It's taken me 2 weeks just to summarize part of what got done at our Summer School ...

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Stephen Wolfram

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3 months

How do we know (exactly) when and where an eclipse (like the one coming up on April 8) will happen? I just published a small book that tells the story: an inspiring tale of science, mathematics and computation spanning more than two thousand years...

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Stephen Wolfram

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3 years

Beyond #blockchain : getting global consensus from local rules ... a most interesting algorithmic problem!

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2 years

It's a 1,3 time ... Mathematica is 1/3 century old, and today, on the 13th, we'll be releasing Version 13 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica...

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2 years

A big surprise in the outer reaches of abstraction: introducing the physicalization of metamathematics. Thanks to @WolframPhysics we have a major new direction in the foundations of mathematics...

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Stephen Wolfram

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3 years

In 1921 Emil Post thought he could "solve all of mathematics" if only he could solve the "problem of tag". But after spending months, he gave up. With computers and a century more of ideas, I just decided to take another crack at it

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Stephen Wolfram

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11 months

Tomorrow is the 35th anniversary of the original launch of Mathematica. Join me at 1 pm ET for a look to the future ... and a real-time test of whether we maintained compatibility over these 35 years...

Stephen Wolfram Livestreams

For upcoming live streams by Stephen Wolfram, please visit: http://www.stephenwolfram.com/livestreams/

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Stephen Wolfram

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1 year

Another episode in our continuing LLM story... Introducing LLM functions: a powerful new form of programming made possible by Wolfram Language + LLMs.

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2 years

Hello, Wolfram Institute! Launching in less than a month ... with some incredible science+ coming over the horizon....

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