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Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Pursuit of Interesting Projects

The speaker reflects on their drive to pursue interesting projects regardless of feedback, recounting childhood experiences of immersing in subjects and the development of Mathematica. They highlight the importance of finding primitives for computation and the ambition to describe the world computationally.

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