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Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #89

Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | Lex Fridman Podcast #89

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

“so in 2002 you published a new kind of science to which sort of on a personal level I can credit my love for cellular automata”— Stephen Wolfram
ProductBy the guest

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Research

“it wolf now for is a system for answering questions where you ask in question with natural language and it'll try and generate a report”— Stephen Wolfram
ProductBy the guest

Wolfram Language

Wolfram Research

“we have a pretty full scale computational language that sort of talks about the world and that's that's exciting”— Stephen Wolfram
ProductBy the guest

Mathematica

Wolfram Research

“Mathematica first came out 1988 it's this system that is basically a instance of Wolfram language and it's used to do computations”— Stephen Wolfram
ProductBy the guest

Wolfram Engine for Developers

Wolfram Research

“we have this free Wolfram engine for developers which is a free version for developers”— Stephen Wolfram
ProductBy the guest

SMP

Stephen Wolfram

“the predecessor of what's now often language was a thing called SMP which was my first computer language”— Stephen Wolfram

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

MediaReferenced

Arrival

Denis Villeneuve (inferred)

“you and your son Christopher helped create the alien language in the movie arrival so let me ask maybe a bit of a crazy question”— Lex Fridman
MediaReferenced

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick (inferred)

“what do you make of the monolith in 2001 Space Odyssey in terms of aliens communicating with us”— Lex Fridman
ProductReferenced

Voyager Golden Record

NASA (inferred)

“on the Voyager you know golden record thing one of the things that's kind of cute about that is it's a phonograph record”— Stephen Wolfram
BookReferenced

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. (inferred)

“touring trying to work out he's thought about taking encyclopedia britannica and you know making it computational in some way”— Stephen Wolfram