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The Computational View of Time Time is a central feature of human experience. But what actually is it? In traditional scientific accounts it’s often represented as some kind of coordinate much like space (though a coordinate that for some reason is always systematically increasing for us). But while this may be a useful mathematical description, […]
7 months ago

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What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton?

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 […]

a month ago 28 votes
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 […]

3 months ago 42 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: […]

3 months ago 59 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 […]

3 months ago 101 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 […]

5 months ago 106 votes

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Floating Nuclear Power Plants

This is an intriguing idea, and one that I can see becoming critical over the next few decades, or never manifesting – developing a fleet of floating nuclear power plants. One company, Core Power, is working on this technology and plans to have commercially deployable plants by 2035. Company press releases touting their own technology […] The post Floating Nuclear Power Plants first appeared on NeuroLogica Blog.

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