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When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Wolfram tech and its dedicated website now easily predict eclipses. A look at advances in understanding and science from ancient eclipse data thousands of years old through current eclipse calculations.
Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Built-in Wolfram Language function SolarEclipse automatically computes nearly 100 properties about eclipses. For past and future eclipses, find type, magnitude, path, maps, umbra, patterns, geo projections, position, etc.
The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Wolfram's Version 14 includes expansive connections to and from LLMs. New learning tools, including courses and books. Plus, functionality advances in math, core language, video objects, trees, finite fields, Knowledgebase, systems engineering, graphics. Astro, biological and chemical computation.
Aggregation and Tiling as Multicomputational Processes—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolfram explores multiway systems as minimal models for growth processes based on aggregation and tiling. Also, how to use this concrete application as a way to develop further intuition about multiway systems in general.
How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything—Stephen Wolfram Writings
In his TED Talk, Stephen Wolfram covers the emergence of space by the application of computational rules to spacetime, gravity and quantum mechanics to AI and LLMs. Computational irreducibility and the ruliad.
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolfram shares memories of Doug Lenat, early AI pioneer and developer of the CYC system. Their discussions around AI & logic and the potential combined uses of their respective discoveries.
LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Wolfram's Version 13.3 includes a subsystem around LLMs plus new functionality in integrals, special functions, finite fields, computational geometry, live highlighting in visualizations, AR & VR deployment. See examples for those and dozens of other enhancements.
Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Curated collection of prompts for use with LLMs. Accessible interactively in Chat Notebooks and programmatically in functions like LLMFunction. Initial categories in the Prompt Repository cover personas, functions, modifiers.
Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolfram explores some of the science, technology and philosophy of what we can expect from AIs. From how ChatGPT works to the cycle of technology, to the concept of progress and preparing for an AI world.
A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Follow Stephen Wolfram's evolution of research on the 2nd Law from early interest as a 12-year-old to his current findings in the Wolfram Physics Project. View a large collection of images of early and published works.
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics—Stephen Wolfram Writings
A history of the origins and advances in the study of the Second Law of thermodynamics, prompted by new progress through the Wolfram Physics Project. Incorporates screenshots of dozens of primary documents.
The Latest from Our R&D Pipeline: Version 13.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Mathematica & Wolfram Language 13.2 include major new areas--astronomy and celestial mechanics. Also see detailed examples of advances in dates, units, polynomial operations, external neural nets, large subtrees, differential equations, fractional calculus, cluster analysis, computable chess, graphics, packaging large-scale compiled code, user interface conveniences.
Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica—Stephen Wolfram Writings
More than 600 new functions in Version 13 plus loads of updates covering: symbolic integration, mathematical functions, PDE modeling, video creation, image stitching, tree constructs, graph coloring, subgraph isomorphism, spatial fields, leap seconds, maps, geometric regions, chemical formulas & reactions, bio sequences, flight data, multiaxis plots, dates as coordinates, infinite plot scales, visualization types, content detectors, machine learning visualization & diagnostics, controller tracking, Wolfram|Alpha notebooks, quizzes, persistent expressions, Function Repository, paclet creation, context aliases, symbolic webpage construction, NFTs.
Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica 🙀🤠🥳—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Substantial set of new and updated functions in Version 13.1 covers generalized listability, language conveniences, emoji computations, default toolbar, large-scale code editing, drawing in notebooks, Tree expansion, video capture, mathematics, customizable documentation, chemical quantities, machine learning, manipulating expressions in compiled code.
The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Results from samplings of the unique ruliad structure that corresponds to the entangled limit of all possible computations. General physicalized laws of mathematics are discussed, associated with concepts such as metamathematical motion, inevitable dualities, proof topology and metamathematical singularities.
Games and Puzzles as Multicomputational Systems—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Explore multicomputational systems and quantum mechanics through games and puzzles like tic-tac-toe, Icosian game, Geography Game, etc. See how the complexity of multiway graphs relates to the difficulty of a game. Made possible by Wolfram Physics Project.