The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: History of Lisp? - What was ctrl+enter used for in Mathematica before Wolfram|Alpha? Were you saving that the whole time for such an important purpose? - Its crazy to think...

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What is beta decay? - I'm confused about the mass of quarks inside of protons/neutrons, somewhere I saw numbers of only a few electrons and the rest is binding energy? - Do you thi...

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business and innovation as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: Tell us about your failures as an entrepreneur and what you learnt from them? - What is your opinion about software patents? - How many hours did you work in academia compared when you...

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What are the biggest differences you notice about how physicists think vs. how mathematicians think? - A typical text file is a few KB, a typical audio file is a few MB, a typical...

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: What is the history of black holes discovery? - Is gravitoelectromagnetism sufficient to get black holes with event horizon or do you need the full GR framework to get them?...

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Mario Carneiro and Norman Megill. Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Terry Sejnowski. Part 2 (of 2) Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Terry Sejnowski. Part 1 (of 2 parts). Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Jan Ambjorn. Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Andy Strominger. Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Fred Meinberg. Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Gregory Chaitin. Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations   Part 2 (of two podcasts).

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations   Part 1 (of two podcasts)

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Louis Kauffman. Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Bob Coecke. Watch all of the conversations here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Is there any experiment in computation similar to Miller - Urey experiment? - Can there be life inside a solid? - ill it be possible in the future to create an atmosphere on a plan...

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business and innovation as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: How did Champaign become the base of operations of the company? - Why haven't you lived in Champaign for "three decades"? - Is it a doable thing to work at a university and run a start...

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: When an electron moves from one energy level to another and it releases a photon, is the direction of the photon random? - Can you please explain inertial and non-inertial referenc...

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: When did Neural Networks (and more generally these more black box type algos) overtake more traditional optimization approaches such as nonlinear programming and why do you...

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Why does Occam's razor work? - Stephen, do you know how to cook? - How would you explain the goal of your physics project to a 5 year old? - Yuval recently indicated that the next...

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business and innovation as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: Can you give us some insights into how you scaled up Wolfram, and what important issues / questions you had to tackle or what significant lessons you learned? - Are there cultural bias...

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Why is there a size limit for a planetary body in the universe? Is the size of Jupiter the largest that is possible? - What happens to the electrons before the sun fusion occurs? -...

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history of science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: I am interested in the evolution of mechanics from Newton through d'Alembert to Lagrange. Could you elaborate on this? Why was it the Europeans that created the modern mathematica...

Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:  https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Is sociology a real science? Can it predict something? - Should we use Inductive reasoning in science? - What is a number? - Would computer processing speed increase if we had a co...