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JULY 2, 2018

It has become a familiar argument between those who believe children intuitively learn to type (“see them on smartphones and iPads–they don’t need help”) and those of us who believe instruction makes them better, faster. This topic that is close to my tech teacher soul.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 29, 2024

A major theme of my work since the early 1980s had been exploring the consequences of simple computational rules. Could it be that at a fundamental level our whole universe is just following some simple computational rule ? And at first I couldn’t see how computational rules could connect to what is known in physics.

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Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Introducing Astro Computation. Astronomy has been a driving force for computation for more than 2000 years (from the Antikythera device on)… and in Version 13.2 But what’s new now is astronomical computation fully integrated into the system. But what’s new now is astronomical computation fully integrated into the system.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But some of it has immediate practical implications, notably for parallel, distributed, nondeterministic and quantum-style computing. The key point is that a given event cannot happen unless all the inputs to it are available, i.e. have already been computed. Some of what this will lead us to is deeply abstract.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

We can think of the ruliad as the entangled limit of all possible computations—or in effect a representation of all possible formal processes. Many of these consequences are incredibly complicated, and full of computational irreducibility. But now we can make a bridge to mathematics. So is something similar happening with mathematics?

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