The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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: ​How closely are computer clocks synchronized in different parts of the world? How do they synchronize? - How does the body know when to create scar tissue? Does the body make different scar tissue based on the tissue it's repairing? - ​What is the meaning of light years? -  Could you say something about this year's Nobel Prize on complex system? Is there any relation to your Wolfram model? - ​How do messenger pigeons find their destination? - How to fix dizziness on a boat? (new navy sailor here) - ​Were you bitten by a pigeon as a child? #spiderman #pigeonman? - I wonder if there is a difference of accuracy in the sensing of the magnetic field depending on whether is just 1 bird, a few, or many flying together

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 does history have to say about combating anti science movements/wacky conspiracy theories, especially when it comes to the more dangerous ones such as the anti-vaccine movement? - How have people come to believe in grey-headed aliens? - ​The counter culture movement is sometimes associated with a renewed interest in quantum mechanics in the sixties. Would Richard Feynman, who lived the era, have agreed? - ​Did Dick Feynman ever prank you or pick a lock that belonged to you? - How much of your work on cellular automata was influenced by Ulam's work during the Manhattan Project?

Join Stephen Wolfram as he discusses updates on the Physics Project, the Ruliad, Multicomputation, and Metamathematics!

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 do flies fly around seemingly constantly with no apparent goal whatsoever? - Why don't we make houses out of some kind of amber and then carve them? - How do traffic light systems work? - Does Stephen prepare any of the answers? they are all so clear and thought out - Hello, how are the magnetic north and geographical north related? - 1 How come oil is deposited in Arctic regions? -  Could you please explain what Eigenvalues/vectors and what you can do with them. Thanks.

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: Do you believe billionaires should exist? are you one? - ​Why do billionaires make space rockets? - ​Do you have a fancy car? Or a boat? - At least 3! Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos? - How do you determine your time is being well spent? - ​How many computers do you own? Do you build them yourself? - 9-5 job, graduated in physics, but work as an analyst. Tired when coming home, want to learn more skills, any advice? - Do you perceive yourself as Altruist? - Do you still systematically learn new science by textbooks? - ​Why is it so hard for independent learners outside of institutions to get access to decent tools and classes? It is hard not to default to python because of lack of financing. - How is the landscape of investing in technology startups changing? Where do you fit in?

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 technological and/or scientific capabilities must humans achieve to be able to manipulate and reprogram matter at will? - Can you explain CRISPR? How does the gene editing technique CRISPR work? - Why are routines for sleeping, eating, exercise, etc. so helpful for mammals? When is routine harmful? - ​Is there an example where self-assembly is industrially used? - ​How harmful are plane flights in terms of radiation exposure? - I were able to create a black hole the size of a marble in my living room, would it destroy the cosmos or just make a hole in my couch? - Is it true our electrical distribution networks and neuronal networks in the brain has same configuration? - Why do some speculate there's life - Isn't it weird that our body mostly works fine in zero gravity?

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: Stephen, why are keyboards the default computer interface? - Why didn't someone invent the printing press earlier? It seems to have been quite financially valuable. Was it an engineering problem or a lack of entrepreneurship? - In your opinion if Physics didn't work out for Professor Feynman would he have been able to make it as a stand up Comedian - In the past or currently, how much 'science' and technology is published or publicly available... is the most 'advanced'/ useful science and tech in the published literature/ patents? Are there branches of secret science? Yes or No, are you personally or do you know a group sitting on tech that is not public facing? - Why is Turing's machine model today so dominant compared to the equivalent lambda calculus? - Would love to read an essay just about the printing of the NKS book. This is a wild saga. - ​Is it possible to identify the moment in history when scientific investigation as we know it today broke away from the study of philosophy? - When do the viewers get to hear more about the answer to the why there's something rather than nothing? - Why do you think certain cultures have had such a disproportional success in science discovery & business?

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: Since photons do not experience the passing of time, does that mean that all their physical properties, such as wavelength, are fixed throughout their lifespan? - Do you think that it's worth investing and attempting cryonic suspension as a way to continue living? - ​Why does time seem to speed up as we age? - How can one learn physics or math at a young age? (organizing your life, order of topics, your experience as a young physics enthusiast) - If the center of the earth is really hot lava like the sun, how come it isn't melting everything between us & it?

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business, innovation, and managing life as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa Questions include: ​How to start a mega corporation? - How do you retain the best people over the years? - ​I heard, CEOs have actually no impact in large companies. - How do you have a successful software company in this day with only 3 good ML engineers left? Just saying I've heard WRI really needs to hire more ML experts, how do you do that when good ML people don't work for less than 150k - How many people could someone lead? - After starting a business, how do you know when you should secure an attorney? It's such a large expense but seems like an unavoidable necessity. - ​Any plans to take a trip into space? - How much more should the CEO make then the median salary? - I am 17 right now. Do you think the USA is better than the UK for business and innovation? 2nd question: do you think its a good idea to start building companies in your 20s, or is it a better idea to first build (theoretical) experience and go for it later on? as in, what do you think of people in their early 20s building ML/AI startups? - Do you have any heuristics on deciding when to stop or dramatically alter a long term and expensive research project? - It is tempting to be very quantitative about measuring the output of your various projects and teams in Wolfram. tempting to try and optimize it can also leave people feeling like robots? Balance? - Have you ever made any of your employees sign employee contracts with non-compete agreements? - Are there any focused Research teams in Wolfram? Like full-time researchers on AI/ML? - ​Are there any plans to open offices in Germany? - You were very successful at a young age. How can one be confident towards older or more experienced people? - What quality should we look in people to determine if working with them will improve us? - ​Do you have ideas for intermediate-scale projects / companies (maybe 25 or less people) that you aren't working on because they aren't compatible with Wolfram's size? - ​Dear Stephen, what is your favorite chocolate? - What was your reaction to getting the MacArthur grant? Was it exciting? What did you do with the money? (Was there money attached to it back then?)

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 really such a thing as INFINITY or is it just a concept? - ​Does Infinity have a magnitude? - But is infinity really a mathematical object? It has no finite quantity. ​How can something without a finite quantity be used in a calculation/computation? - What's the difference between counting numbers and counting processes? - ​Is Rulial Space likely to be finite or infinite? - ​How is it possible that infinity of integers is smaller than the infinity of floats? - Why can't mules and donkeys reproduce? What are the limits for different species of mammals breeding with one another? - is it 5 crossovers on average for everyone? - Are memes on the internet, conceptually a species? - So how is a specie determined just by visual features? Or maybe defined by breeding? - Last question can genetic traits lay dormant for centuries..? Sort of recurring changes after x generations?