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Stephen Wolfram Radio Lecture
Stephen Wolfram, subject of much discussion here, once known solely as the creator of Mathematica, now also known as the author of A New Kind of Science (/. review here), gave a lecture at Boston University this past spring on that book's subject matter. The audio of the lecture was broadcast this evening on the program World of Ideas on WBUR-FM out of Boston. If you don't live in the Boston area, if you missed the program, or if like me you were listening in your car while driving and found that two activites incompatible, the hour-long recording is also available for download in RealMedia format.
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No, it doesn't appear to be available for download.
Will somebody please post a link to capture it in a format that will really be playable offline?
This guy is a fruit.
Boston University recently installed an additional set of extra-wide double doors for the sole purpose of permitting Wolfram to get his enormous self-absorbed head into the lecture hall.
Bittorrent mp3s here
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There are several deaf persons in the world, who are interested in Stephen Wolfram's ideas.
However, as long as the lecture exists only as audio stream, its gems of wisdom will remain forever out of reach of the deaf in the world.
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http://webcast.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/UCSD_TV/7153.r m
That's from the University of California Video archive. Lots of interesting stuff.
A beginners' guide to Portland, OR?
Is anyone else sick of hearing him say the word 'well'?
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Can someone explain to me how he decides how many columns to have? Sure cellular automata makes pretty patterns, but is the grid arbitrary?
...at least in this case, I wouldn't say anything is 'out of reach' -- the gems of wisdom imparted in the lecture are available in his 6,000 page book that covers the subject. (ok, maybe 1,200 pages but you get the picture). If you're not familiar with the material, you can get a lot more from reading a critique of the book. If you are familiar, you pretty much sit there and wonder whatever made you think *you* were so smart.
There is a lot of relevant content on a number of his websites...he kept telling us to read and re-read different sections of the book.
I saw this lecture in Chicago, and it's not unlike walking off the street into a 400-level physics course. A brilliant professor walks in and immediately gets started, armed with a few powerpoint slides and ultradry jokes, he steamrolls through the first 300 pages of his book in 60 minutes. An audio stream of this isn't going to make or break your understanding on the subject.
I imagine a sign language translator would have their hands full (so to speak) trying to keep up with him.
The host is done by speech synthesis, right?
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Post a transcript for those of us reading this at work.
This stuff is like 40 years old. Older than Unix (30 year old OSes are fine, 31 year old ones well...).
I used to create two colonies of cells which after a certain modification would start firing moving structures at each other destroying each others sections. Sometimes bridges were built. I had one where cells seemed to patrol the border like a marquee (in reality they weren't moving, the cells simply progressed in the same decaying states). For the majority of situations, these patrols prevented incoming bodies from destroying the structures they were seemingly protecting.
We don't need a new kind of science. We need a level playing field that allows anyone to research without the kind of elitism that infuriates just the kind of people that cause independent groups to degenerate into cliques and feuds often found in the Free Energy, Cold Fusion, and Perpetual Machine cults.
We need a new approach at problem solving. Running a hundred experiments that make no new predictions is not science. Show me a laptop powered by water and I'll drop a dime into the donation cup.
If anything this stuff simply says that when things change they may stay the same. We program using code that behaves the same way at all times.
Suppose code frangments changed in ways that valid execution strings were still created, but rather than taking up many gigs of space you would call a timer to capture a certain snapshot and rearrange the code to perform some other work.
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Oh, *Steven Wolfram* not Steppenwolf.
Nevermind.
--J(K) DOS is like Unix in exactly the same way that a pinto is like an aircraft carrier.
... at its most fundamental level, as does Lee Smolin coming from a totally different perspective.
Wolfram's point with cellular automata is that they are much easier on human perception than networks are, and that they are both examples of a class of simple mechanisms that all do the same kind of interesting things.
-- Our systemic servants do not good masters make.