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Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #234

Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #234

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommended

Rudy Rucker novels (nanobot 'nants' series)

Rudy Rucker

“great great collection of books from my friend Rudy Rooker”
“I've got one example great great uh collection of books from my friend Rudy Rooker which were um uh which I have to say”— guest

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

“almost 20 years ago you published A New Kind of Science where you presented a study of complexity and an approach for modeling of complex systems”— Lex Fridman
ProductBy the guest

Mathematica

Wolfram Research

“wol from language is what people use and have been using for the last 33 years actually Mathematica which is its first instantiation”— guest
ProductBy the guest

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Research

“wol malfa is kind of the consumer version of that where you're just using natural language as input the um and it turns it into our symbolic language”— guest
ProductBy the guest

Wolfram Language

Wolfram Research

“our wolam language which is our attempt to kind of represent everything in the world computationally and it's the thing I kind of started building 40 years ago”— guest
BookBy the guest

Combinators: A Centennial View

Stephen Wolfram

“this new book I wrote about combinators is is full of stuff like this”— guest

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

ProductReferenced

Cardano

Charles Hoskinson (inferred)

“we've been doing a bit of stuff with nfts and we just did some nfts on cardano and we'll be doing some more”— guest