Maybe I'm a way too critical, but: Fascinating as it was, this talk is basically a history lesson plus demo for Mathematica. I waited for Stephen to come around, and somehow to connect all this to Julia, but he was not even aware that there was already a package integrating Wolfram functions into Julia via MathLink(Extras) or the availability of Mathematica-like abilities via JuliaSymbolics for, well, symbolic math. Instead: 4^45 = 0. It would be nice to have someone speak at such an event, who is interested in Julia, at least on a conceptual level, and can talk to that. Maybe give some insights from their own experience in language development.
@TheJuliaLanguage
11 ай бұрын
Traditionally we invite several keynote speakers from within the Julia community, and several speakers who have nothing to do with Julia itself but bring their own unique experience. Stephen Wolfram was one of those speakers this year, and we don't request or expect that they try to integrate Julia into their talk.
@benitoe.4878
11 ай бұрын
@@TheJuliaLanguage I understand and Stephen surely is a great pick. Also it is reasonable not to demand for every speaker to be an expert in Julia and to integrate it into their talk on a deep technical level. However, they should relate to it, if and where possible, so that hopefully some kind of cross-pollination of ideas can happen. I’m sure someone like Stephen would have a lot to share and contribute and in part he did. At any rate, thanks for organizing this event and uploading the talks. 👍
@ErikSchnetter
11 ай бұрын
After a really good first half (some history of symbolic computing, running 60 year old C code in an emulator, etc.), Stephen takes off and gives a whirlwind introduction to quantum gravity. He then circles back to distributed computing, but runs out of time before elucidating on the connection between std::memory_order and the mathematics of general relativity. I didn't like how he sold this approach to quantum gravity as his idea, but I would listen to a part two of this talk.
@rajeevgangal542
11 ай бұрын
At this point I would rather see some predictions and evidence for his approach
@InfiniteQuest86
11 ай бұрын
Dude. This is crazy. He's more amazing than I realized.
@akhilnandan5087
11 ай бұрын
From one of the finest minds
@swagatochatterjee7104
11 ай бұрын
Calling Mathematica invented notebooks is a bit of stretch, wasn't literate programming popularised by Knuth well before Mathematica?
@NightmareCourtPictures
8 ай бұрын
I don’t think people really get what he’s saying but the thing is that this stuff is the most important thing to hear in relation to computer programming. Wolframs work says implicitly that that computation and physical reality are one in the same…and that wolfram is developing a framework for us to tap into this deep relationship. Think about it like this: a Turing machine has the capacity to compute any and all computable functions. The claim is that the universe and all subsystems in it are equivalent to a Turing machine. What follows is that under the right framework, we can create whatever we want just as we do when we create things on our computers. There’s bridges that need to be built (this is why wolfram made WAlpha) but the foundations are there. The ideas require a big picture of how these things are connected to each other, but everything he said encompasses these notions as they should be described. I recommend watch Wolframs “New Kind of Science” series on YT
@deeplearningpartnership
11 ай бұрын
Awesome.
@jawadmansoor6064
7 ай бұрын
how to use Mathematica as backend for calculations (even for plotting 3D/2D graphics that are interactive)? possible in pluto/REPL/jupyter or anywhere?
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