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Nice pictures I happened to just get and thought I should share...

16.07.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wolfram High School Research Program | Projects

Check them out here: education.wolfram.com/summer-resea...

14.07.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wow! Look at what high school students just did in 2 weeks #WithWolfram at the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program. (And, yes, in "extreme professoring mode" I tried to get to know all 75 students and suggest projects that would be great fits for each of them...)

14.07.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Gallery of Wolfram Summer School 2025 project tiles that include an image representing the project, the project title, a photo of the student who created the project, and their name.

Gallery of Wolfram Summer School 2025 project tiles that include an image representing the project, the project title, a photo of the student who created the project, and their name.

Just finished three exciting weeks of our (23rd!) annual Wolfram Summer School ... with lots of interesting projects done ...
www.wolframcloud.com/obj/microsit...

11.07.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Image is a brain MRI seen from top down, followed by an arrow pointing right and three dots.  Original image this is based on is actually Stephen Wolfram's brain

Image is a brain MRI seen from top down, followed by an arrow pointing right and three dots. Original image this is based on is actually Stephen Wolfram's brain

I've often wondered what it'd be like if we had bigger brains. It's not easy to imagine what minds beyond ours might be like ... but I just gave it a try ...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/05/what...

21.05.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Today is the birthday of A New Kind of Science. What a huge project that was (10+ years, etc.)!
I'm still amazed it actually got done.
At the 20th anniversary I told some of the behind-the-scenes story...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/05/the-...

14.05.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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From the point of view of science I've never been too excited about the Game of Life. But now I realize that what's really exciting about it is what it tells us about what we can call metaengineering...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/03/what...

18.03.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
Photo of Stephen Wolfram with his hands open. Between his hands, there is a black circle with a large red pi symbol in the middle. Surrounding the pi symbol is a multitude of numbers from pi in red and white.

Photo of Stephen Wolfram with his hands open. Between his hands, there is a black circle with a large red pi symbol in the middle. Surrounding the pi symbol is a multitude of numbers from pi in red and white.

#PiDay served with a slice of off the cuff history from @stephenwolfram.bsky.social
youtu.be/fvbDvPbH00w?...

11.03.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Towards a Computational Formalization for Foundations of Medicine Stephen Wolfram takes the first steps in developing a medical metamodel framework for studying and formalizing the abstract foundations of medicine.

I'm excited to share yet another (unexpected) application of my recent science: a computational formalization for foundations of medicine. (Why is medicine hard? Are there a finite number of diseases? ...)
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/02/towa...

03.02.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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A quarter century ago this minute ... a century-old problem was solved when out of my Mathematica program popped the shortest possible axiom system for logic ... though to this day nobody understands the computer-generated proof...

30.01.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: big data meets computation & AI...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/01/laun...

23.01.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In looking for photos, I also happened to find this (carbon-copy) letter from 1942...

22.01.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo collage of Hugo Wolfram, spanning nearly a decade and including the street he lived on over 80 years ago

Photo collage of Hugo Wolfram, spanning nearly a decade and including the street he lived on over 80 years ago

My father would have been 100 years old today ... which really helps humanize for me what a century means...

22.01.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Listing of project titles spanning Lie Brackets, Causality, Lady Mary Shepherd, Consciousness and Quantum Optics

Listing of project titles spanning Lie Brackets, Causality, Lady Mary Shepherd, Consciousness and Quantum Optics

Just wrapped this year's Wolfram Science Winter School. Lots of ruliological intuition building, mixed with mathematical physics and some computational philosophy...
education.wolfram.com/programs/

17.01.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics Stephen Wolfram discusses understanding proofs discovered using automated theorem proving. Based on Wolfram’s proof of the simplest axioms of logic of Boolean algebra.

Formalized math: meet computational irreducibility.
A simple (if surprising) theorem.
An automated proof nobody seems able to understand.
A tale of adventure in the wilds of metamathematical space...
#MathSky
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/01/who-...

09.01.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
An intricate black and white photo of a resulting pattern in a triangle shape.  Reminiscent of lace or other creative patterned textiles

An intricate black and white photo of a resulting pattern in a triangle shape. Reminiscent of lace or other creative patterned textiles

An unexpected little ruliological discovery just made live a few minutes ago during my inaugural "Q&A for Scientists" livestream...
youtu.be/9_t1ysElDL8

13.12.2024 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Useful to the point of being revolutionary: introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant!

writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/12/usef...

09.12.2024 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 47    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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Biological evolution is a fundamentally computational phenomenon! Just posted lots of new results (and surprises) from my minimal model of adaptive evolution...
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/12/foun...

05.12.2024 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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Born 65 years ago this minute. Happy to say the last five years have been my all-time most productive (so far)... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five...

29.08.2024 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Taller and broader. Announcing Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ... available today for desktop, cloud, etc.
The same core mission and core ideas. But 36 years later ... check out what it's turned into!
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/07/yet-...

31.07.2024 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How do the LLMs compare? Leveraging our "code grading" tech to introduce weekly computationally grounded LLM benchmarking...
www.wolfram.com/llm-benchmar...

18.07.2024 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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For those conceivably wondering, the "C10" in my 1984 diary is range-2 totalistic code 10 (black if 1 or 3 cells out of 5 are black). Four decades later I decided to do some ruliology on the "forgotten" code 10.
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/06/ruli...

01.06.2024 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today my all-time favorite science discovery is 40 yrs old! My June 1, 1984 diary told me to "take pict." of "R30" on a 9 pm flight to London ... which is when I finally realized (2 yrs after first generating it) what a big deal rule 30 is...

01.06.2024 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Foundations of physics, mathematics, computing ... now biology! The ruliad is on a roll.... (Up next: machine learning ?)
writings.stephenwolfram.com/all-by-date/

04.05.2024 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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They're the ruliad champions! The "busy beavers" of the (symmetric 3-color) cellular automaton world ... the rules that live longest before dying out...
[How does that rule "know" to die out after 2194 steps??]
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/05/why-...

03.05.2024 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Biological evolution. Machine learning. Why do adaptive processes actually work? Finally found what seems like a good minimal model for biological evolution....
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/05/why-...

03.05.2024 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Found some new friends today in the computational universe:

30.04.2024 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In case you missed today's eclipse, there are always more to come (at least for the next few hundred million years).
Here's where the total eclipses will be for the next 100 years:
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/comp...

08.04.2024 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The eclipse from first principles: using the Wolfram Language (and its SolarEclipse[] function) to compute eclipses (and to analyze a couple of the eclipses I've seen)
writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/comp...

29.03.2024 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Join me for a livestreamed reading of this at 5pm Eastern US time today:Β 
www.youtube.com/user/Wolfram... (or on X twitter.com/stephen_wolf... )

29.03.2024 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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