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Business, Innovation, and Managing Life (September 14, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Importance of Simple Programming

Wolfmouth allows you to sort of build up a computation. In the 1980s I was working on kind of simple programs, and like cellular automata  and trying to figure out if you just sort of pick a program at random what will it typically do. And then the big and surprising thing that I found is that even incredibly simple programs sort of picked it say at random can often do very complicated things. It's kind of explains things about how sort of complexity arises in nature,. builds into lots of different kinds of important pieces of science.

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