Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 8, 2023

If you're like me, you envision students energetically focused on some learning task, either by themselves or in small groups or as an entire class. They are going through the full range of thoughts and feelings common to people who are learning something that's somehow larger than themselves. You can see and hear them learn.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 15, 2023

But by now there are endless examples of machine learning systems that do well at reproducing human judgement in lots of domains. Could we “learn how to make sense of it”? But an alternative approach—more aligned with machine learning—is just to give examples, and (implicitly or explicitly) say “follow these”.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 13, 2022

As I would learn repeatedly, most publishers seemed to have a very hard time doing anything they hadn’t already done before. It was a lesson I’d learned years earlier: don’t wait until research is “finished” to figure out how to present it; work out the presentation as early as possible, so you can use it to help you actually do the research.

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