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  • Formaat: Hardback, 432 pages, kõrgus x laius: 236x165 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Dec-2019
  • Kirjastus: Wolfram Media Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1579550266
  • ISBN-13: 9781579550264
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Hardback, 432 pages, kõrgus x laius: 236x165 mm
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Dec-2019
  • Kirjastus: Wolfram Media Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1579550266
  • ISBN-13: 9781579550264
Teised raamatud teemal:
A general interest collection of Wolfram's writings exploring physics, data science, programming languages, and other computational adventures.

Through his pioneering work in science, technology and language design, Stephen Wolfram has developed his own signature way of thinking about an impressive range of subjects. In this lively book of essays, Wolfram takes the reader along on some of his most surprising and engaging intellectual adventures.From science consulting for a Hollywood movie, solving problems of AI ethics, hunting for the source of an unusual polyhedron, communicating with extraterrestrials, to finding the fundamental theory of physics and exploring the digits of pi, Adventures of a Computational Explorer captures the infectious energy and curiosity of one of the great pioneers of the computational world.
Preface vii
Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?
1(26)
My Hobby: Hunting for Our Universe
27(8)
Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization
35(50)
Pi or Pie?! Celebrating Pi Day of the Century
85(8)
What Is Ultimately Possible in Physics?
93(20)
My Life in Technology--As Told at the Computer History Museum
113(38)
Something I Learned in Kindergarten
151(4)
Music, Mathematica, and the Computational Universe
155(8)
Ten Thousand Hours of Design Reviews
163(8)
What Should We Call the Language of Mathematica?
171(12)
What Do I Do All Day? Livestreamed Technology CEOing
183(10)
The Story of Spikey
193(46)
Advance of the Data Civilization: A Timeline
239(8)
Data Science of the Facebook World
247(22)
A Short Talk on Al Ethics
269(8)
Overcoming Artificial Stupidity
277(12)
Scientific Bug Hunting in the Cloud: An Unexpected CEO Adventure
289(12)
The Practical Business of Ontology: A Tale from the Front Lines
301(10)
The Poetry of Function Naming
311(6)
Buzzword Convergence: Making Sense of Quantum Neural Blockchain Al
317(20)
Oh My Gosh, It's Covered in Rule 30s!
337(14)
The Personal Analytics of My Life
351(14)
Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure
365(48)
A Precociousness Record (Almost) Broken
413(4)
A Speech for (High School) Graduates
417