Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

Three centuries ago science was transformed by the idea of representing the world using mathematics. But here for the most part I’m going to adopt a narrower definition—and say that AI is something based on machine learning (and usually implemented with neural networks), that’s been incrementally trained from examples it’s been given.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

” It’s the kids without their nose in a book that notice the world around them, make connections, and learn natively. Remaining Open to Continuous Learning. The result is a compelling argument that education is less a data download and more a fitness program for our brains. Gathering Data through All Senses.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

They’re mathematically more complex, but each one we successfully cover makes a new collection of problems accessible to exact solution and reliable numerical and symbolic computation. It’s the end of a long journey, and a satisfying achievement in the quest to make as much mathematical knowledge as possible automatically computable.

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Magic EdTech

MAY 13, 2022

The standard classroom experience isn’t personalized for everybody, which is why many students may prefer the learning approach provided by academic enrichment to help address this situation. It helps students who need the additional challenge in the classroom to stay focused and remain engaged in learning. Enriched Knowledge.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. Of course one of our great achievements has been to maintain across all that functionality a tightly coherent and consistent design that results in there ultimately being only a small set of fundamental principles to learn.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Many would say that modern exact science was launched in the 1600s with the introduction of what we can call the “ mathematical paradigm ”: the idea that things in the world can be described by mathematical equations—and that their behavior can be determined by finding solutions to these equations.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Many would say that modern exact science was launched in the 1600s with the introduction of what we can call the “ mathematical paradigm ”: the idea that things in the world can be described by mathematical equations—and that their behavior can be determined by finding solutions to these equations.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 15, 2022

How it traditionally works In traditional, points-based grading systems, the evidence that students present about their learning is almost always in the form of one-and-done assessments: Tests, exams, homework, presentations, and the like. One-and-done assessment is clearly a terrible way to measure student learning.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 1, 2022

In fact, although points are numbers, we typically use them not as numerical data , where mathematical calculations such as averages have real meaning, but as categorical data — that is, as labels that represent our professional judgment on the student’s work. Here's what I've learned about how to do it.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). And in fact I think it was only in writing this piece that I even learned he’d grown up in Los Angeles (specifically, East Hollywood).

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 17, 2021

And perhaps there is some way to extend the cellular automaton to a neural net with continuous weights, and then use machine learning methods to iteratively find minimal places where weights can be changed. In the basic definition of a standard cellular automaton, the rule “takes its arguments” in a definite order.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 20, 2021

Version 1 of Mathematica was billed as “A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer” , and—for more than three decades—in every new version of Wolfram Language and Mathematica there’ve been innovations in “doing mathematics by computer”. Sometimes the result involves explicit mathematical functions: &#10005. For Version 12.3

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