Calculus Computer Science Transportation 
Stephen Wolfram
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Once one has the idea of “equilibrium”, one can then start to think of its properties as purely being functions of certain parameters—and this opens up all sorts of calculus-based mathematical opportunities. In living systems one sometimes also cares about the transport of electrons—though more often it’s atoms and ions and molecules.
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 29, 2024
And there are also foundational questions in computer science. But my recent work on the foundations of machine learning suggests a broader approach, that can also potentially tell us things about the fundamental character of language, and about how it serves as a medium that can “ transport thoughts ” from one mind to another.
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Stephen Wolfram
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
It’s not obvious that it would be feasible to find the path of the steepest descent on the “weight landscape” But calculus comes to the rescue. As we mentioned above, one can always think of a neural net as computing a mathematical function—that depends on its inputs, and its weights.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
But with the multicomputational paradigm there’s now the remarkable possibility that this feature of physics could be transported to many other fields—and could deliver there what’s in many cases been seen as a “holy grail” of finding “physics-like” laws. I know of a few perhaps-closer approaches to our conception of multiway systems.
Stephen Wolfram
JUNE 8, 2022
To make a closer analogy with quantum mechanics one can start thinking about combining different chunks of “multiway game play”, and trying to work out a calculus for how those chunks fit together. The games we’ve discussed here are all in a sense pure “games of skill”.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
But with the multicomputational paradigm there’s now the remarkable possibility that this feature of physics could be transported to many other fields—and could deliver there what’s in many cases been seen as a “holy grail” of finding “physics-like” laws. I know of a few perhaps-closer approaches to our conception of multiway systems.
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
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). “Lick” Licklider —who persuaded Ed to join BBN to “teach them about computers”. Nowadays we’d call it the trie (or prefix tree) data structure. But his name shows up from time to time.
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