“My Program Did the Wrong Thing!” Bugs are a ubiquitous phenomenon in the software world. And—essentially by definition—each one of them is somehow unique and unexpected. But—particularly given their ubiquity—one might wonder whether there
Fascinating explanation, Stephen! The idea that it’s “just adding one word at a time” really demystifies the process while still highlighting the incredible emergent intelligence. It makes me think about the potential for fine-tuning such m…
June 23, 1988 is when we launched Version 1.0 of Mathematica. Today—almost 38 years later—we’re launching Version 15 of what—in recognition of how far it’s expanded beyond “math”—we now call Wolfram Language. It’s an impressive release, wit…
The Basic Setup Whether one’s dealing with biology, economics, politics or a host of other fields, it’s common to encounter situations that can be modeled as involving two agents that repeatedly compete with each other. One imagines that at…
Ruliology is taking off! And more and more people are talking about it. But what is ruliology? Since I invented the term, I decided I should write something to explain it. But then I realized: I actually already wrote something back in 2021…
Ruliology is taking off! And more and more people are talking about it. But what is ruliology? Since I invented the term, I decided I should write something to explain it. But then I realized: I actually already wrote something back in 2021…
To immediately enable Wolfram Compute Services in Version 14.3 Wolfram Desktop systems, run (The functionality is automatically available in the Wolfram Cloud.) Let’s say you’ve done a computation in Wolfram Language. And now you want to sc…
What's Special about Life? Bulk Orchestration and the Rulial Ensemble in Biology and Beyond »(VIDEO) It’s a key feature of living systems, perhaps even in some ways the key feature: that even right down to a molecular scale, things are orch…
“I Have a Theory Too”: The Challenge and Opportunity of Avocational Science »(VIDEO) Several often arrive in a single day. Sometimes they’re marked “urgent”. Sometimes they’re long. Sometimes they’re short. Sometimes they’re humble. Sometim…
We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possible? At 100 billion neurons, we know, for example, th…
Exploring Wolfram Language V14.2 »(VIDEO) Just under six months ago (176 days ago, to be precise) we released Version 14.1. Today I’m pleased to announce that we’re releasing Version 14.2, delivering the latest from our R&D pipeline. This i…
Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant »(VIDEO) Note: As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to allow subscription access to the capabilities described here. [For addit…