Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. Chemistry / Molecular Biology. In standard chemistry, one typically characterizes the state of a chemical system at a particular time in terms of the concentrations of different chemical species.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 29, 2024

The fall of 2021 involved really leaning into the new multicomputational paradigm , among other things giving a long list of where it might apply : metamathematics, chemistry, molecular biology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, immunology, linguistics, economics, machine learning, distributed computing.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

At the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in the US, biologists Barbara Barnhart and Dr Olivia Long are using their Science Seminar programme to ease this transition for first year students studying biology, chemistry and biochemistry degrees. What do students learn from studying this?

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

You can give Threaded as an argument to any listable function, not just Plus and Times : &#10005. we’re adding SymmetricDifference : find elements that (in the 2-argument case) are in one list or the other, but not both. Chemistry as Rule Application: Symbolic Pattern Reactions. We could do this with: &#10005.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

of what’s now Wolfram Language —we were trying to develop algorithms to compute hundreds of mathematical special functions over very broad ranges of arguments. Back in 1987—as part of building Version 1.0 In the past, people had painstakingly computed series approximations for specific cases. So why does this work? Mostly we don’t know.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. There was also a sense that regardless of its foundations, the Second Law was successfully used in practice.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I think Yves Pomeau already had a theoretical argument for this, but as far as I was concerned, it was (at least at first) just a “next thing to try”. People had discussed reaction-diffusion patterns as examples of structure being formed “away from equilibrium”. What kinds of models could realistically be made for these?

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. This argument is quite rough, but it captures the essence of what’s going on. The Mechanoidal Phase and Bulk Molecular Biology The Second Law has long had an uneasy relationship with biology.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Pathway from school to forest ecology • Becoming a forest ecologist starts with studying fundamental sciences like biology and chemistry in school. It is inspiring to see the research mainstreamed and the arguments of “is climate changing?” If you feel inspired by any of these questions, forest science might be for you!

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

In 2015 Ed told me a nice story about his time at Caltech: In 1952–53, I was a student in Linus Pauling’s class where he lectured Freshman Chemistry at Caltech. Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments. After class, one day, I asked Pauling “What is a superconductor at the highest known temperature?”

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