But unfortunately the teller came back and said "Our investigative unit pulled up the fact that you've made your empire piggybacking on genuine pioneers, (Von Neumann, Zuse, Conway, Thom, Ulam, Poincaré, Einstein, etc.) all the time self-aggrandizing your importance and understating theirs. Your rating has been adjusted from "awesome" to "pompous" and you actually owe back a fair amount of respect. We're sorry, Mr. Wolfram"
i love seeing someone get this excited over science and discovery and stuff. it wasnt long ago that i didnt know of anyone who got so excited over that kind of stuff other than me (even though i dont understand most of it haha)......by the way wolfram alpha is AMAZING
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Stephen should create a portable version of wolfram alpha, it shouldn't be exclusive to online usage, the only demerit would be unethical usage of such a powerful machine to enhance academic performance.
@mattysimsoficial If you are going to call someone a neanderthal you should probably learn how to properly form a sentence and spell the words within it.
I think Wolfram would benefit from a touch of modesty here. The ASA has video from 1972 of remarkable graphical data visualization software developed at Stanford by the phenomenal J.W. Tukey and his colleagues. Mr. Wolfram, the software you're working on is useful, but truly, you stand on the shoulders of giants.
It's funny. He says there is no complexity as we think of. But he is trying to build his explanations around the program he created. It’s still in boundaries of program. You control only diversity inside the program. This program was not built by itself. Let see what happens if I’d change the code of program. You’d have to bring then all your imaginations to find a pattern in output. World of complexity is based on the rules made in ideal conditions.
@SergSpace But to get there you have to provide and constantly support these conditions like his program does drawing nothing more but the triangle in the end. To build more complex mechanism you gonna need more complex program. And itt not gonna be created by itself. The complexity is in the motive and sufficiency. What provides conditions, what leads to a certain structure, what stops a program when certain shape is taken?
this is pure genius...i love it. figure out the universe in which we live by creating countless random ones based on simple figures...the entire universe as we know it, in it's amazing complexities is born in simplicity. imagine somebody holding a marble full of numbers and throwing into a pond and saying "go"
Why does he associate himself and "his idea" with the successes of many? I hate him because he associates himself with other peoples work and attempts to draw credibility to his "idea" because of it. He's a thought thief.
High-speed computation is a "big thing" that will enable so much in the future. However, Peter Wolfram's products, like Mathematica, are poorly conceived for heavy computation. His insistence on symbolic computing is a huge handicap. And "cellular automata" is not some new math, really. It's interesting and fractal-like, but again, Peter is going off the rails.
Stephen Wolfram walks into a bank, says to the teller "Hello, I would like to apply for some respect." Teller responds, "Sure, Mr. Wolfram, I see you have a credit score of 'awesome,' why don't I take you back to the vault and you can handpick out as much as you can carry, just wait here a minute while I go fetch a wheel barrow."
Why haven't I heard about Wolfram Alpha and this speaker before?! If some slut has a nice ass then sponsors will pay tens of millions of dollars making sure that chick's ass & their company product is in everyone's face. BUT, when you get something that is pure genius & it is such a triumph of science and engineering that it automatically becomes a great achievement not just for its creators but for humanity then we should all BOW down to the genius that created this. Humanity has such potential
@andyrooney12 its called capitalism you can't put wolfgram alpha on a product and expect people to buy it but you can put a "slut ass" metaphorically speaking on a product and sell it. Its just the way it works
I hope to pick up where this man may leave off, or be a student to him a few years from now. After I read "a new kind of science" I was blown away at the hypothesis that our universe can be computatable due to fractal mathematics. I just love it, I love that we are getting close to a unified theory of everything, and fractals will get us there.
Of all scientists, researchers, and thinkers, Stephen Wolfram has the most eccentric and, thus possible, unique set of ideas: that using conventional differential-derivative methods to achieve "the theory of everything" is likely impossible. Very bright high school students these days know much more mathematics & physics than Einstein and Newton and Leibniz, so it's not a "lack" of bright scientists that we don't have the "grand unifying theory." It's a lack of a truly innovative approach.
Wolfram makes a few interesting points but this is largely a crap presentation. Everything he talks about regarding automata has been done and talked about 40 years ago, with the Game of Life (look it up). I was waiting for him to stop introducing himself and his achievements but realised that this is his actual talk - plugging his new search engine. He compares himself to Galileo, and says he has the biggest idea of the century. What an arrogant dick head.
@Autonova, you might find his presentation on A New Kind of Science more interesting. He gave it seven years before and it centers much more on the science and less on the marketing. It´s also available on youtube.
He takes a step back and then forward so often. I wonder if he's even aware of it. It's distracting and pointless. He needed a speech coach, despite what else he knows.
This video has got me thinking, however. In order to make correct calculations, you need to use the correct data, mathematics. A computer can compute mathematical results, but it doesnt seem capable of comparing real data to invalid (but computable) data. It will calculate both results without complaint, but the answer it gives could be flawed.
Also, its strange but with all the experience i have with computers; my idea is that even pure calculations tend to bend towards chaos in the long run.
@JCDentonCZ You claim that "real data" is mathematical, but think about it and you'll see that is not really the case. Do fluids experience turbulence because some differential equations say so? Or does it do so because of a recurring process where each little particle of the fluid experiences some force by all neighbouring particles and recomputes (in an abstract sense) its properties?
Symbolic math is a very HUMAN language, we use it because it provides a basis for us to understand patterns.
@Bunji2k6 Compilation errors are pretty much universally easy to fix. For a compilation error to exist the compiler must have identified the error, and if you know what's wrong, it's easy to fix. Post-compilation issues are the problem. :)
@fuduzan5562 Ah, I have only the slightest idea of how programming works (yet), and compilation errors are the ones I'm familiar with :P But post-compilation problems would be harder to fix, I can see that.
Google has always been my homepage ever since I can remember, Wolfram Alpha has become a close second in the most visited webpage I use for searching information. :)
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How long before the notion of a creator being becomes unnecessary? The being that most believe in nowadays is a "god-of-the-gaps" that they use to patch up questions they don't have the answer to, i.e. what you can say instead of "I don't know."
Galileo bought his telescope, it was a toy at the time and he just was the guy who figured it can be pointed at sky and then wrote about it before others.
I admire him because the term "grandiose" seems to have only positive connotations for him. He dreams big, and strives to create novelty with no constraints
@alcyonae In other words, he's a real scientist. He explores the possibilities without allowing his, or anyone else's, personal/cultural biases impede his exploration.
@Phelan666 Or even better, the ideal scientist. Scientific theories cause priming in the minds of those who study it at a deep level, and priming hinders radical deviations from the accepted teaching of the academic world. It takes great practice, experience, creativity and favorable environments to become an ideal scientist. When such conditions arise, the scientist is usually too old/involved into family care or administrative businesses. Hence ideal scientists with the right mindset are rare
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@alcyonae novelty? According to wolfram, the 4th noun definition for novelty says that the word means 'showy and cheap.' Not the most precise description of his dreams and projects.
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His clothes are ill-fitting and wrinkled, he's poorly-dressed (who wears sneakers with formal clothes ?) but he's one of the most brilliant people on the planet
@mozart20dlubos this is because brilliant people realize that there are more important things than whether it is acceptable to wear brown with green...not saying you have to be a slob but matching all of your clothes and keeping them up to the standards of the newest fashion is simply a waist of time in the minds of the brilliant
Basically, anyone that didn't cock their head and say "what?" Within the first two minutes of this video is way too credulous. But, 50% of U.S. citizens actively use alternative medicine, so I wouldn't expect them to see the red flags of bullshit here.
Well, apparently he's gone crazy. He's about a quarter inch from saying he mathematically proved gods exist. Which, to me, means he's way down the path of delusion. "Computational Irreducibility"? Is he Michael Behe now? 20 years in academic seclusion and he finally comes out to give us exactly what we'd expect from intellectual seclusion. He first gave this talk at CalTech to a board of prestigious physicist and mathemeticians. They basically said it's garbage. He's provided nothing.
@TheThomaswastaken Not exactly sure if it helps if you just stick a fairytale sticker on his ideas and say: "Oh that looks to me like creationist BS, so we end the discussion here and no longer think about it". He invented a hypothesis on how the universe may work and we better use the scientific method to decide if he is on the right path and not just your opinion. The same thing for string theory, loop quantum gravity and all the other fancy examples of this exciting search.
It would not surprise me to learn that in the basement of his office complex is a sentient extension of Wolfram Alpha that he converses with every day.
I just listened to Stephen's presentation at the H+ Summit. Poor guy kept getting interrupted.
Perhaps my attention was directed elsewhere at a key moment, but one unclear point is, exactly how does one search the computational universe? Obviously, Wolfram writes them in Mathematica, but what types of algorithms are used to search for algorithms?
@DCWhatthe well one can build a computational entity say like an automaton or using a grammar. These also can be predefined rules using checks that expand. He is all about cellular automata which is a type of automaton. You can build sets of bits with them usually.
@KraljevicPavle not quite. That is a huge insult to his programs. His programs like Mathematica do so many things. They are almost like IDE's for computational mathematical programs.
The WolframAlpha thing is no doubt something pretty original, but the underlying computation (and the idea that from simple rules, complexity can arise) is nothing new. I don't know why he would said he needed to create a whole 'new science' to understand it. He wasn't the first to come up with these ideas, so he's being pretty arrogant really (didn't like the comparison's between himself and Galileo either).
@jonnoboyd You are right. Galileo is way better than Steve. What a fool to compare himself to another person; does he think he is more important or something?
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Zonaagar 1 week ago
But unfortunately the teller came back and said "Our investigative unit pulled up the fact that you've made your empire piggybacking on genuine pioneers, (Von Neumann, Zuse, Conway, Thom, Ulam, Poincaré, Einstein, etc.) all the time self-aggrandizing your importance and understating theirs. Your rating has been adjusted from "awesome" to "pompous" and you actually owe back a fair amount of respect. We're sorry, Mr. Wolfram"
Gargonzolo 2 weeks ago
i love seeing someone get this excited over science and discovery and stuff. it wasnt long ago that i didnt know of anyone who got so excited over that kind of stuff other than me (even though i dont understand most of it haha)......by the way wolfram alpha is AMAZING
LDchris1 3 weeks ago
There will be no excuse for being stupid in the future.
Powervids123 1 month ago
@Powervids123
LOL
are you kidding
the double edge sword of ignorance/awareness is sharpened with every technological improvement
islandbuoy4 1 week ago
@Powervids123 I would say there is no excuse for being stupid now.
Cyllid 2 days ago
and so on.
129matan 1 month ago
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129matan 1 month ago
i'd like wolfram more if he wasn't the most self-promoting and arrogant man in science.
Autonova 1 month ago
@Autonova agreed, the bit 5:30 - 13:00 could be summarised in about 1 min. the rest is excellent! also the arms, THE ARMS!!! HOLD THEM STILL!!!!1
alexhamster1134 1 month ago
Dat giant shirt.
MrC0MPUT3R 1 month ago
what language is this guy speaking?
BryceeTB 2 months ago
@BryceeTB
English?
ulktz 1 month ago
This guy is the Sheldon Cooper of real life.
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lightandbeautiful 3 months ago
Stephen should create a portable version of wolfram alpha, it shouldn't be exclusive to online usage, the only demerit would be unethical usage of such a powerful machine to enhance academic performance.
IceDawg101 3 months ago
@IceDawg101 There is; it's called the Wolfram|Alpha app.
MegaJakeroo 2 months ago
Rule #30: Science porn.
SPKaa 3 months ago
Can't believe this man took a Phd when he was 20
pippomaneful 3 months ago 3
legend.
kapztheman 3 months ago
god is not humalike god is logiclike
paginipro 3 months ago
@turbotroy6 have a look at theoreticalphysics.webs.com
paginipro 3 months ago
Omg, i met this guy before, more than once and didnt know what a genius he.
interestingspagetti 3 months ago
Why do bazillionaires dress like they shop at Walmart?
nunyabizness32 4 months ago
@nunyabizness32 The reason you wont be is: that's what you care about. neanderthal dummy
mattysimsoficial 4 months ago
@mattysimsoficial If you are going to call someone a neanderthal you should probably learn how to properly form a sentence and spell the words within it.
sethboy66 2 months ago
@nunyabizness32 Because they could give (roughly) 1/10th of a shit about fashion.
sbreckling 3 months ago
@nunyabizness32 because they dont fucking care
doihaveot 1 month ago
In summary, Stephen Wolfram intends to solve physics.
hgblb 4 months ago 3
what would you do if you'd discover the theory of everything?
paginipro 4 months ago
How good is wolfram alpha! No more math dramas!!
Tradd20 4 months ago
If you ever feel lonely you can just curl up with your computer and have a cuddle.
futbolangel02 4 months ago
This is a crazy video
devtowntown 5 months ago
I'm scared by this technology because it may remove the need for human expertise but im also excited :/
manucudifan 5 months ago
thumbs up if you checked wolfram alpha again after this video
mohammad9993 5 months ago
awesome.... something to help me with my math homework! wooot
rexviper8 5 months ago 3
@rexviper8 i thought the same thing lol
manucudifan 5 months ago
I think Wolfram would benefit from a touch of modesty here. The ASA has video from 1972 of remarkable graphical data visualization software developed at Stanford by the phenomenal J.W. Tukey and his colleagues. Mr. Wolfram, the software you're working on is useful, but truly, you stand on the shoulders of giants.
micheldvorsky 6 months ago
How to spot an academic from a distance: Dress pants with runners.
nikanj 6 months ago 53
@nikanj
was thinking the exact same thing :p
lolololort 6 months ago
@nikanj Ya man your right what the hell was Wolfram thinking, he couldn't put on some shoes?
qw2589 3 months ago
@nikanj House takes this as a compliment.
UlyssesKrunk 3 months ago
good!
GeracaodeValor 6 months ago
"Computation" ?? doesn't the word "Computing" express correctly what he means to say ?
hunkyo 6 months ago
It's funny. He says there is no complexity as we think of. But he is trying to build his explanations around the program he created. It’s still in boundaries of program. You control only diversity inside the program. This program was not built by itself. Let see what happens if I’d change the code of program. You’d have to bring then all your imaginations to find a pattern in output. World of complexity is based on the rules made in ideal conditions.
SergSpace 7 months ago
@SergSpace But to get there you have to provide and constantly support these conditions like his program does drawing nothing more but the triangle in the end. To build more complex mechanism you gonna need more complex program. And itt not gonna be created by itself. The complexity is in the motive and sufficiency. What provides conditions, what leads to a certain structure, what stops a program when certain shape is taken?
SergSpace 7 months ago 2
@SergSpace He plays with tools like a child with cubes except he knows how to make more combinations. It does not explain anything.
PS YouTube does not let to put everything in single paragraph, so the beginning starts from buttom
SergSpace 7 months ago
42...So long, and thanks for all the fish!
dkstoney 7 months ago
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TheIncredibleJoke 7 months ago
this is pure genius...i love it. figure out the universe in which we live by creating countless random ones based on simple figures...the entire universe as we know it, in it's amazing complexities is born in simplicity. imagine somebody holding a marble full of numbers and throwing into a pond and saying "go"
TheIncredibleJoke 7 months ago
Applause to the nth power.
shandesofgreen 7 months ago
Why does he associate himself and "his idea" with the successes of many? I hate him because he associates himself with other peoples work and attempts to draw credibility to his "idea" because of it. He's a thought thief.
CruelSculpture 7 months ago
lots of fun
gocy 7 months ago
product placement
mixxmexx 7 months ago
This guy acts like what he's talking about is brand new and unprecedented.
ForgedInASupernova 7 months ago
High-speed computation is a "big thing" that will enable so much in the future. However, Peter Wolfram's products, like Mathematica, are poorly conceived for heavy computation. His insistence on symbolic computing is a huge handicap. And "cellular automata" is not some new math, really. It's interesting and fractal-like, but again, Peter is going off the rails.
SphinctersForever 8 months ago
@SphinctersForever Peter???
BenNCM 7 months ago 2
This project is very ambitious! is all i can say.
edgaritoaqui 8 months ago
Awesome stuff!!
todomusika 8 months ago
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todomusika 8 months ago
Stephen Wolfram walks into a bank, says to the teller "Hello, I would like to apply for some respect." Teller responds, "Sure, Mr. Wolfram, I see you have a credit score of 'awesome,' why don't I take you back to the vault and you can handpick out as much as you can carry, just wait here a minute while I go fetch a wheel barrow."
And that's the way it was.
mrbenderson005 8 months ago 18
@mrbenderson005 "Borrow? Come, here's some for free"
darkdeviant1 2 months ago
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mrbenderson005 8 months ago
We cant die! We have to live to see the evolution of humanity... Or destruction. =).
I hope evolution comes first. =P
CheSuerte 9 months ago
WE CANT DIE! we have to lieve to see the evolution of humanity... we are scratching it... ^^!
CheSuerte 9 months ago
Why haven't I heard about Wolfram Alpha and this speaker before?! If some slut has a nice ass then sponsors will pay tens of millions of dollars making sure that chick's ass & their company product is in everyone's face. BUT, when you get something that is pure genius & it is such a triumph of science and engineering that it automatically becomes a great achievement not just for its creators but for humanity then we should all BOW down to the genius that created this. Humanity has such potential
andyrooney12 9 months ago 3
@andyrooney12 its called capitalism you can't put wolfgram alpha on a product and expect people to buy it but you can put a "slut ass" metaphorically speaking on a product and sell it. Its just the way it works
manucudifan 5 months ago
I hope to pick up where this man may leave off, or be a student to him a few years from now. After I read "a new kind of science" I was blown away at the hypothesis that our universe can be computatable due to fractal mathematics. I just love it, I love that we are getting close to a unified theory of everything, and fractals will get us there.
TKgeniusHELLTX 9 months ago
Of all scientists, researchers, and thinkers, Stephen Wolfram has the most eccentric and, thus possible, unique set of ideas: that using conventional differential-derivative methods to achieve "the theory of everything" is likely impossible. Very bright high school students these days know much more mathematics & physics than Einstein and Newton and Leibniz, so it's not a "lack" of bright scientists that we don't have the "grand unifying theory." It's a lack of a truly innovative approach.
HenryDavidT 9 months ago 3
Wolfram makes a few interesting points but this is largely a crap presentation. Everything he talks about regarding automata has been done and talked about 40 years ago, with the Game of Life (look it up). I was waiting for him to stop introducing himself and his achievements but realised that this is his actual talk - plugging his new search engine. He compares himself to Galileo, and says he has the biggest idea of the century. What an arrogant dick head.
Autonova 9 months ago
@Autonova, you might find his presentation on A New Kind of Science more interesting. He gave it seven years before and it centers much more on the science and less on the marketing. It´s also available on youtube.
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Autonova 9 months ago
@fedeetz nevermind i feel u bro
frozenstrawbs 10 months ago
i idolize this man. hahaha. wolframalpha is so helpful.
TehFair 10 months ago
Go to WolframAlpha and type in "why are we here", you'll love the response.
Gplex 10 months ago 4
He takes a step back and then forward so often. I wonder if he's even aware of it. It's distracting and pointless. He needed a speech coach, despite what else he knows.
DexterHaven49 10 months ago
This video has got me thinking, however. In order to make correct calculations, you need to use the correct data, mathematics. A computer can compute mathematical results, but it doesnt seem capable of comparing real data to invalid (but computable) data. It will calculate both results without complaint, but the answer it gives could be flawed.
Also, its strange but with all the experience i have with computers; my idea is that even pure calculations tend to bend towards chaos in the long run.
JCDentonCZ 10 months ago
@JCDentonCZ You claim that "real data" is mathematical, but think about it and you'll see that is not really the case. Do fluids experience turbulence because some differential equations say so? Or does it do so because of a recurring process where each little particle of the fluid experiences some force by all neighbouring particles and recomputes (in an abstract sense) its properties?
Symbolic math is a very HUMAN language, we use it because it provides a basis for us to understand patterns.
Charonic 9 months ago
MY LORD WHAT AN INTELLIGENT MAN
funrizwan 10 months ago
MY LORD WHAT A SMART MAN
funrizwan 10 months ago
Stephen, you gave me hope.
aby0ni 10 months ago
He looks like he's about to pee.
allfatz 10 months ago
i'm not believe on Jew guy , because I'm Palestine people ! Well I'm kidding sometimes !
huynhminhtri 10 months ago
big dreams, thats what i like about ted. I want more ted taloks like this, like it used to be. Help humanity progress.
AaaaghJOE 10 months ago
I'd hate to be the programmer who had to dive into the code and fix it when it didn't compile.
Bunji2k6 11 months ago
@Bunji2k6 Compilation errors are pretty much universally easy to fix. For a compilation error to exist the compiler must have identified the error, and if you know what's wrong, it's easy to fix. Post-compilation issues are the problem. :)
fuduzan5562 11 months ago
@fuduzan5562 Ah, I have only the slightest idea of how programming works (yet), and compilation errors are the ones I'm familiar with :P But post-compilation problems would be harder to fix, I can see that.
Bunji2k6 11 months ago
This guy is so smart that i feel like a stupid monkey breed compared to him.
Neueregel 11 months ago
Search "mathcad" or "ptc mathcad" on "wolframalpha" and you get gibberish. Everything else you type, there is a result.
Deliberate attempts to silence competition... a real shame indeed.
BestestMoron 11 months ago
I admit this guy is intelligent, but he's also a fucking arrogant asshole
fedeetz 1 year ago
@fedeetz idiot
frozenstrawbs 10 months ago
Google has always been my homepage ever since I can remember, Wolfram Alpha has become a close second in the most visited webpage I use for searching information. :)
BlueFalconLoyd 1 year ago
This is the most amazing thing I've seen in a long time. This is human changing stuff.
Cyanidespork 1 year ago
I wonder what rule 34 is...
ImSoOffended 1 year ago
This is what the internet is for...watching ted and learning.
jazz4 1 year ago 3
telling me the ^^ nature of nature ^^
exception28sep 1 year ago
Am I the only one who thinks this whole video is Wolfram bragging about how much he's accomplished?
goldenate 1 year ago
wolfram alpha did all my math homework this semester, calc 2!!
PAKMAN52 1 year ago 2
@PAKMAN52 So you bombed the tests then?
albinoman13bt 1 year ago
@albinoman13bt
no, i still got a B
PAKMAN52 1 year ago
Nice shirt.
AlphaWinky 1 year ago
I tried typing "theory of the universe" into WolframAlpha. I was disappointed :(
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I'm going to call rule 34 on rule 30.
scott496 1 year ago
I'm going to call rule 34 on rule 30
scott496 1 year ago
I tried to get WolframAlpha to divide by 0. It never responded. Hope I didn't kill it....
mtszabo 1 year ago
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mtszabo 1 year ago
Look at his hands. He is moving his hands like a rapper. :D
Krisler12 1 year ago 4
@Krisler12 Shit. I wish I wouldn't have read this. ROFL
But try to remember that it's his brain we're interested in.
Not his skills with 'them bitches' (whom he would drop like they're hot anyway).
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porscheghcje 1 year ago
What's his point? Is he talking to himself?
pragith 1 year ago
52 people thought this was for calculating god.
ssijak 1 year ago
this fucked up my brain Oo
ssijak 1 year ago 2
Simply GENIUS!!!!
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You could make a drinking game out of this by taking a drink every time he says "Mathematica" or "WolframAlpha"
scruffyexaminer 1 year ago
You could make a drinking game out of this by taking a drink every time he says "Mathematica"
scruffyexaminer 1 year ago
@scruffyexaminer Every time he says "and so on".
ashleylovesdaddy 1 year ago
How long before the notion of a creator being becomes unnecessary? The being that most believe in nowadays is a "god-of-the-gaps" that they use to patch up questions they don't have the answer to, i.e. what you can say instead of "I don't know."
insanemagicguy 1 year ago
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mikeyo1234 1 year ago
Stephen looked so cute and humble immediately after his talk. A funny shift from the intimidating genius behemoth mind effect.
johntkooz 1 year ago
Is he the guy you hear in movie previews?!?!
tmandrumma4 1 year ago
*mind is blown*
NickBlackDIN 1 year ago
Galileo bought his telescope, it was a toy at the time and he just was the guy who figured it can be pointed at sky and then wrote about it before others.
floodindahood 1 year ago
I admire him because the term "grandiose" seems to have only positive connotations for him. He dreams big, and strives to create novelty with no constraints
alcyonae 1 year ago 35
@alcyonae In other words, he's a real scientist. He explores the possibilities without allowing his, or anyone else's, personal/cultural biases impede his exploration.
Phelan666 1 year ago
@Phelan666 Or even better, the ideal scientist. Scientific theories cause priming in the minds of those who study it at a deep level, and priming hinders radical deviations from the accepted teaching of the academic world. It takes great practice, experience, creativity and favorable environments to become an ideal scientist. When such conditions arise, the scientist is usually too old/involved into family care or administrative businesses. Hence ideal scientists with the right mindset are rare
alcyonae 1 year ago 15
@alcyonae sounds like ass kissing to me....
titiluanco 7 months ago
@titiluanco your vulgar idiom implies that the subject, me, intentionally attempts to ingratiate the object, Wolfram.
?! Can you identify your fallacy?
alcyonae 5 months ago
@titiluanco jelly much?
d00m0racl3 1 week ago
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mikeyo1234 1 year ago
@mikeyo1234
Were you looking up the latest quotes of Justin Bieber?
Perhaps if you were solving differential equations or performing quaternion algebra you might enjoy some of the free, universally available functionality uniquely provided by wolframalpha.
dusktreader13 1 year ago 2
@dusktreader13 E = (Justin Bieber)^2
:)
mikeyo1234 1 year ago
@alcyonae novelty? According to wolfram, the 4th noun definition for novelty says that the word means 'showy and cheap.' Not the most precise description of his dreams and projects.
sharpezor 5 months ago
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alcyonae 5 months ago
Benoit died. Sad.
faunflynn 1 year ago 4
What an incredible genius.
AlexanderLee1 1 year ago
nice wolfram alpha laptop
ROTCANHOC 1 year ago 2
Very interesting subject. Stephen needs to work on his gestures and public speaking skills though.
chh5555 1 year ago
this guy is a god!!! or really close haha
delaisla777 1 year ago
@I was one of the very first beta testers for mathematica and I can tell you he's a nice guy but a total crank .
badmouth Zuse and made him out to be crazy. Not nice.
faunflynn 1 year ago
The brain on this guy is the size of planet... a big one
BezBog 1 year ago 3
WolframAlpha doesn't work - I didn't get a proper answer to the folloing... "what numbers will win the lotto this week"
MultiJasonJasonJason 1 year ago
@MultiJasonJasonJason Actually, Wolfram|Alpha takes the whole thing deeper, as it can very well give you the odds of winning and hence making you see, how pointless it is to be part of that Ponzi scheme ;)
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I asked Wolfram Alpha 'what is the meaning of life?'... it said 42... no really.
Norm1011616 1 year ago
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Norm1011616 1 year ago
holy shit...
djamorpheus 1 year ago
His clothes are ill-fitting and wrinkled, he's poorly-dressed (who wears sneakers with formal clothes ?) but he's one of the most brilliant people on the planet
mozart20dlubos 1 year ago
@mozart20dlubos this is because brilliant people realize that there are more important things than whether it is acceptable to wear brown with green...not saying you have to be a slob but matching all of your clothes and keeping them up to the standards of the newest fashion is simply a waist of time in the minds of the brilliant
CRASDFGH 1 year ago 4
@mozart20dlubos Who gives a shit if he's dressed well? He's doing insane computational things. I wouldn't care either.
Benisuber1 1 year ago
universal computation. Aww yeah.
SMWssaamm 1 year ago
I like his sneakers.
patrout 1 year ago
what a tool
phatpat63 1 year ago
Quack quack quack. This guy is a total quack.
InsaneGoonRules 1 year ago
wow...to make that sort of search engine :O
Bunfire123 1 year ago
this guy is probably the biggest dork on earth
quaxk 1 year ago
@quaxk lol
AlbertInSanAntonio 1 year ago
Just checked out the Wolfram music generator. Never been so disappointed.
It sounds like the demo songs on the £3 keyboard i had as a kid.
dylanlawless1 1 year ago
Basically, anyone that didn't cock their head and say "what?" Within the first two minutes of this video is way too credulous. But, 50% of U.S. citizens actively use alternative medicine, so I wouldn't expect them to see the red flags of bullshit here.
TheThomaswastaken 1 year ago 4
By this I am referring to his theories of everything and that the universe is a computer program thing.
TheThomaswastaken 1 year ago
Well, apparently he's gone crazy. He's about a quarter inch from saying he mathematically proved gods exist. Which, to me, means he's way down the path of delusion. "Computational Irreducibility"? Is he Michael Behe now? 20 years in academic seclusion and he finally comes out to give us exactly what we'd expect from intellectual seclusion. He first gave this talk at CalTech to a board of prestigious physicist and mathemeticians. They basically said it's garbage. He's provided nothing.
TheThomaswastaken 1 year ago
@TheThomaswastaken Not exactly sure if it helps if you just stick a fairytale sticker on his ideas and say: "Oh that looks to me like creationist BS, so we end the discussion here and no longer think about it". He invented a hypothesis on how the universe may work and we better use the scientific method to decide if he is on the right path and not just your opinion. The same thing for string theory, loop quantum gravity and all the other fancy examples of this exciting search.
GravitasFreeZone 1 year ago 3
It would not surprise me to learn that in the basement of his office complex is a sentient extension of Wolfram Alpha that he converses with every day.
GreyGeek77 1 year ago 3
@GreyGeek77 lol
AlbertInSanAntonio 1 year ago
I just listened to Stephen's presentation at the H+ Summit. Poor guy kept getting interrupted.
Perhaps my attention was directed elsewhere at a key moment, but one unclear point is, exactly how does one search the computational universe? Obviously, Wolfram writes them in Mathematica, but what types of algorithms are used to search for algorithms?
DCWhatthe 1 year ago
@DCWhatthe well one can build a computational entity say like an automaton or using a grammar. These also can be predefined rules using checks that expand. He is all about cellular automata which is a type of automaton. You can build sets of bits with them usually.
Entertainmentwf 1 year ago
@Entertainmentwf - Yep, all true. But I wish that Stephen would share some of the specifics, assuming they are not proprietary.
DCWhatthe 1 year ago
This man is a genius.
SomethingSoOriginal 1 year ago
I should add, the book to search in amazon is "A new kind of science".
jonnoboyd 1 year ago
I revere this man.
BrokenBjartur 1 year ago
I revere this man.
BrokenBjartur 1 year ago
I revere this man.
BrokenBjartur 1 year ago
Pfft he basically combined Wikipedia and a CAS calculator.
KraljevicPavle 1 year ago
@KraljevicPavle
yes pfff
seaperon 1 year ago
@KraljevicPavle not quite. That is a huge insult to his programs. His programs like Mathematica do so many things. They are almost like IDE's for computational mathematical programs.
Entertainmentwf 1 year ago
<333333333333 wolfram
tyskii 1 year ago
Wolfram Alpha = Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy!
dekmaskin 1 year ago 19
The WolframAlpha thing is no doubt something pretty original, but the underlying computation (and the idea that from simple rules, complexity can arise) is nothing new. I don't know why he would said he needed to create a whole 'new science' to understand it. He wasn't the first to come up with these ideas, so he's being pretty arrogant really (didn't like the comparison's between himself and Galileo either).
jonnoboyd 1 year ago 2
@jonnoboyd You are right. Galileo is way better than Steve. What a fool to compare himself to another person; does he think he is more important or something?
Oh the fucking irony. I love you fellow humans.
RyunP 1 year ago
Where the 'fuck' is the irony?
jonnoboyd 1 year ago