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Tim Ferriss · 2022-11-24

Stephen Wolfram — Productivity Systems, Richard Feynman Stories, Computational Thinking, and More

Stephen Wolfram — Productivity Systems, Richard Feynman Stories, Computational Thinking, and More

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

Idea Makers

Stephen Wolfram (inferred)

“I have not read this book of yours, but Idea Makers. It's a compilation of essays. How did you choose the players on the field for this?”— Tim Ferriss
ProductBy the guest

Wolfram Language

Wolfram Research (inferred)

“my main life work is building our computational language, Wolfram Language, which is this language that's supposed to represent everything in the world computationally.”— Stephen Wolfram
ProductBy the guest

Wolfram|Alpha

Wolfram Research (inferred)

“what we've done when we make our Wolfram|Alpha system and intelligent assistant uses of that and so on, what it's doing is it's taking a natural language question”— Stephen Wolfram
ProductBy the guest

Mathematica

Wolfram Research (inferred)

“I have to plug my life work, which my life work is building Wolfram Language and Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica and so on, which are all part of the same idea”— Stephen Wolfram

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

ProductReferenced

Encyclopedia Britannica

“I own the set of Encyclopedia Britannica that he bought when he was, I think, 43 years old. I ended up buying it on my 43rd birthday”— Tim Ferriss
ProductReferenced

Google Translate

Google (inferred)

“looking at the progression, say, in Google Translate from my last trip to Japan, which was pre-COVID, to just about six weeks ago, it is astonishing”— Tim Ferriss