Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

http://www.ted.com Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying the universe.

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[nikanj]

How to spot an academic from a distance: Dress pants with runners.

[mrbenderson005]

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.

[Cyllid]

@Powervids123 I would say there is no excuse for being stupid now.

[d00m0racl3]

@titiluanco jelly much?

[islandbuoy4]

@Powervids123

LOL

are you kidding

the double edge sword of ignorance/awareness is sharpened with every technological improvement

[Gargonzolo]

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"

[LDchris1]

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

[Powervids123]

There will be no excuse for being stupid in the future.

[alexhamster1134]

@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

[ulktz]

@BryceeTB

English?

[129matan]

and so on.