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Live CEOing #786:

Live CEOing Ep 786: Design Review of Graphics, Geometry, Graphs »

with Stephen Wolfram | 31 minutes

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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 144] »

1 hour 8 minutes

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How rare was the recent New Jersey earthquake? How can we predict future earthquakes? The Indian Plate is moving very fast. It's increasing the height of Mt. Everest by six centimeters every year. I wonder if digging for oil and fracking, etc., have any effect on the plates? How do earthquakes cause tsunamis? It seems like studying underwater earthquakes vs. those on land might be a good way to investigate the "lubrication effect." Solitary waves were discovered by the naval architect John Scott Russell in 1834. Anything particularly interesting or surprising from the solar eclipse? It appeared that leading up to it, between the book and website, it was better understood than any previous solar eclipse before it happened. Now that it has happened, what interesting findings have there been, if any? What causes Earth to have different biomes? Why is there only one species of human? What happened to Neanderthals? How do astronomers determine the composition of planets and stars that are light years away from us? View Less »

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History of Science & Technology Q&A:

History of Science and Technology Q&A (April 17, 2024) »

1 hour 3 minutes

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Are there languages or logic systems we haven't yet discovered from the past? Can smart keyboards help with this process of language discovery? Do you view mathematics as a subset of language, or the other way around? How did different languages come to develop? Will we slowly move toward a universal language? "Ona, also known as Selk'nam (Shelknam), is a language spoken by the Selk'nam people in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in southernmost South America." Spoken by only one person. The distinction is the unique role of mathematics expressing and formalizing ideas in ways that transcend linguistic and cultural boundaries. Language came before humans, e.g. dolphins and whales; we just scaled it up and complexified it. Was Shakespeare's style unique to him? Would there have been a possibility for people to speak in a more poetic language? I think language is closer to 1.5-dimensional, considering we have relative pronouns and other constructions that link up with previous statements, such that a 2D diagram of it can be made. If I want to write a short statement, I prefer English. For a detailed style, I would prefer German... which is usually longer and not as nice to read as short English text. Bulgarian is pronounced exactly as it is written. One of its quirks. If LLMs are hallucinating all the time and good ones are just hallucinating correctly/accurately most of the time, does that explain how Ramanujan might have arrived at his formulas without proofs? View Less »

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Live CEOing #785:

Live CEOing Ep 785: Language Design in the Wolfram Language [=, Binomial, and More] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 57 minutes

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Live CEOing #784:

Live CEOing Ep 784: Design Review of Calculus & Algebra Features »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 20 minutes

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Live CEOing #783:

Live CEOing Ep 783: Design Review of BioMolecule and BioMoleculePlot3D »

with Stephen Wolfram | Live CEOing Ep 783: Design Review of BioMolecule and BioMoleculePlot3D

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Future of Science & Technology Q&A:

Future of Science and Technology Q&A (April 12, 2024) »

1 hour 21 minutes

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What features will humans evolve in the future? Will we one day be able to look at the Sun with our naked eye? What is there to say about the future of philosophy? It feels like such an ancient study. If empirical evidence indicates that there is a finite, digital, physical multiverse, then will the practice and philosophy of mathematics undergo huge changes? Are all philosophers logicians? Will we ever find a cure for the common cold? Could that end up messing up our immune systems because they've always fought colds? What about the possibility of injecting tiny computers into our blood cells? Topically, you may remember a boom in nanotech ~20 years or so ago, including nano-robotics research labs and a subsequent bust of a sort. Where is that nanotech boom/bust cycle now and looking ahead? For nanotech to really take off will require new foundational building blocks, mostly from a convergence of biotechnology and electronics research. We see glimpses of that from DNA sequencing/printing. What do you foresee in terms of substrates of the future for computation? In the medium term? Long term? Does the success of one field sometimes slow down other research fields? View Less »

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Business, Innovation & Managing Life Q&A:

Business, Innovation and Managing Life (April 10, 2024) »

1 hour 14 minutes

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What advice do you have for young entrepreneurs? Can children be successful in business? Is it good to have variety in my resume when applying for jobs? How valued are long-term employees of one company vs. an applicant who has had many different jobs? How does one generate a succession plan for a company? Do you think the software market is over-saturated? It feels like there are many untapped innovations in areas like materials sciences and hardware. What's the best way to get funding for a physics-based R&D company? I am starting one and need help. What are some benefits to an internship? Is the AI development just a short-term fashion, like in the 80s? Will owning/running private businesses ever be superseded as an economic form? I think the best advice for young entrepreneurs is "Don't do it." If they do it anyway, that's real entrepreneurship. What would you say to individuals who are interested foremost in making a difference in the world rather than a monetary incentive? How would you weigh the choices between pursuing traditional academia, working on the cutting edge within the private sector or pursuing research in one's own time independently (assuming their life allows such freedom)? How about setting up non- or not-for-profit R&D? How much do you think businesses will have to adjust to account for AI workers if they take off? What about one-person corporations? Zero-person corporations? It seems to me that public libraries should offer access to journals as well as books. Thoughts? There is already an inundation of LLM-written, peer-reviewed papers, adding to your point. In Sweden, we have a book bus that drives around with books to suburban areas. View Less »

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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids & Others:

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and Others) [Episode 143] »

1 hour 13 minutes

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Can you explain eclipse prediction like I'm in middle school? High school? College? Is it possible to view an Eclipse from space? Do astronauts on the space station see anything during eclipses? Related to the eclipse, it is interesting that the Moon always shows the same side to Earth. Why is that? (I've heard about commensurate frequencies, but I'm not sure about the origin of this fact.) How are orbits in the solar system so stable over time? I wonder if it would have any effect if the Moon did rotate with respect to the Earth? If the Moon were spinning fast, it would probably still have a liquid core, I think? If the Moon were to be broken apart, leading to a debris field impacting Earth, what models exist to predict the scale of these impacts and their potential effects on global climate, ecosystems and people? Is predicting eclipses harder than predicting the motions of planets or comets? Can LLMs do math? When will the AIs start colonizing space? When we have large models of all sorts of other stuff, will LLMs' primary role not actually be as the interpreters between humans and our tools? Can't we look into the brain to find out what types of transformers or even other things we need in LLMs? View Less »

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Live CEOing #782:

Live CEOing Ep 782: Design Review of AssessmentFunction Comparison Methods »

with Stephen Wolfram | 35 minutes

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Live CEOing #781:

Live CEOing Ep 781: Language Design in the Wolfram Language [% Modernization] »

with Stephen Wolfram | 1 hour 25 minutes

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History of Science & Technology Q&A:

History of Science and Technology Q&A (April 3, 2024) »

2 hours 12 minutes

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Is there a directionality to science and technology? Has anyone sort of applied the hacker mentality to the Antikythera mechanism to figure out what else you could use it for? What kind of uses could a time-traveling von Neumann figure out? What is the likelihood that ancient tech we've discovered had vastly different uses than what we believe? Southeast Asia is terrible for archeology because you can make almost anything from bamboo: tens of thousands of years ago, people obviously used wood etc., but only stone remains. What does that say going forward, with our fast-rotting bits, in contrast with stone or wood, or even paper? Any thoughts on the ancient dodecahedra? Do you have one? Who started research on the periodic tables? Can you discuss a bit about its development? What motivated the advent of the fast Fourier transform algorithm? What was its creator wanting to solve? How advanced did analog computers get before we moved to digital computers? Was there any debate on whether we shouldn't move to digital at the time? Why did modern formal logic take so long to develop historically, compared to other branches of mathematics or physical sciences? What explains the delay until the mid-nineteenth century? Is there any knowledge in physics today that has been influenced by ancient texts like the Vedas etc.? View Less »

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