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Metaengineering and Laws of Innovation Things are invented. Things are discovered. And somehow there’s an arc of progress that’s formed. But are there what amount to “laws of innovation” that govern that arc of progress? There are some exponential and other laws that purport to at least measure overall quantitative aspects of progress (number of […]
5 months ago

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Towards a Computational Formalization for Foundations of Medicine

A Theory of Medicine? As it’s practiced today, medicine is almost always about particulars: “this has gone wrong; this is how to fix it”. But might it also be possible to talk about medicine in a more general, more abstract way—and perhaps to create a framework in which one can study its essential features without […]

6 months ago 69 votes
Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Big Data Meets Computation & AI

The Drumbeat of Releases Continues… Notebook Assistant Chat inside Any Notebook Bring Us Your Gigabytes! Introducing Tabular Manipulating Data in Tabular Getting Data into Tabular Cleaning Data for Tabular The Structure of Tabular Tabular Everywhere Algebra with Symbolic Arrays Language Tune-Ups Brightening Our Colors; Spiffing Up for 2025 LLM Streamlining & Streaming Streamlining Parallel Computation: […]

6 months ago 81 votes
Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics

Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics” (2022) » “Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics” (2014) » The Simplest Axiom for Logic Theorem (Wolfram with Mathematica, 2000): The single axiom ((a•b)•c)•(a•((a•c)•a))c is a complete axiom system for Boolean algebra (and […]

7 months ago 132 votes
Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant

Note: As of today, copies of Wolfram Version 14.1 are being auto-updated to allow subscription access to the capabilities described here. [For additional installation information see here.] Just Say What You Want! Turning Words into Computation Nearly a year and a half ago—just a few months after ChatGPT burst on the scene—we introduced the first […]

8 months ago 129 votes

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For decades, mathematicians have struggled to understand matrices that reflect both order and randomness, like those that model semiconductors. A new method could change that. The post New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Lithium and Alzheimer’s Disease

This is an interesting story, and I am trying to moderate my optimism. Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the major cause of dementia in humans, is a very complex disease. We have been studying it for decades, revealing numerous clues as to what kicks it off, what causes it to progress, and how to potentially treat it. […] The post Lithium and Alzheimer’s Disease first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.

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