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Stephen Wolfram Version 12 Launches Today (and It’s a Big Jump for Wolfram
- sthatipamala 8y agoMaybe change the title to "Wolfram Language Version 12 Launches"? This is not the 12th iteration of Stephen Wolfram, the human ;)
- demygale 8y agoAnd let’s close that parentheses. It’s breaking my syntax highlighting
- martythemaniak 8y agoPerhaps he is! Just like in Seveneves.
- ajross 8y agoI clicked on this thinking it was genuine satire about his ego, actually.
- astrodust 8y agoI honestly thought he was announcing version 12 of his life management system.
- sevensor 8y agoI figured this was some waggish editorializing on the part of the submitter. Regarding the content, the propagation of uncertainties is pretty sweet, I'd like to see that everywhere. So many questions though, like how it interacts with piecewise models, or functions that map from a continuous to a categorical space. Presumably they have a clever answer. (Possibly I haven't read far enough.)
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- idlewords 8y agoFrom the changelog: * Fixed bug where program names everything after itself
- whitepoplar 8y agotrue u need itself plus a nonce for the cellular automaton to work
- jdougan 8y agoMaybe the code is based on a mind-snapshot from Stephen?
- rmbryan 8y agoIs there a proper summary somewhere? The "summary" from wolfram is 61k words. I get that there's a lot in the update. Isn't summarizing a mass of complex information well suited to some kind of mechanical processing?
- JonathonW 8y agoThere are bullet points summarized by category here: http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-12/ http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-12/ and a comprehensive list of new features here: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/SummaryOfNewFeaturesIn12.html https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/SummaryOfNewFea...
- jakeinspace 8y agoAnybody on HN using Wolfram/Mathematica at work? It seems like a massive tower of math software (possibly larger than MATLAB even), but I've been a bit daunted to ever get into it. I have no idea if it's usable for anything outside of academic research.
- chrisseaton 8y agoI've seen people use it in industrial cryptography and finance. It's the kind of app they open and fullscreen at the start of their day, and they don't switch to any app until they finish.
- p1esk 8y agoMy phd adviser used it to train a neural network
- rcarmo 8y agoThe Around[] support for uncertainty is... mind-blowing. I've used Mathematica on and off over the years, and it never ceased to amaze me how _meaningful_ you could make your formulas, but this is pretty neat.
- T-R 8y agoHaskell has a few libraries that do this[1]. Not trying to one-up the article or anything, just thought you might be interested to see that there are other places where this is available, and that it's not even something that needs full language support in some cases, just a library. Also similar - you can pretty transparently model nondeterminism[2] and probability[3] on a "promise"-like interface with just a library. Of course, whether or not there's good documentation is another story. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19598906/is-there-a-value-with-error-library-in-haskell https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19598906/is-there-a-valu... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20638893/how-can-non-determinism-be-modeled-with-a-list-monad https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20638893/how-can-non-det... [3] http://wiki.haskell.org/Probabilistic_Functional_Programming http://wiki.haskell.org/Probabilistic_Functional_Programming
- sevensor 8y agoOne thing that I find really compelling about Mathematica is that it's quintessential Cathedral software -- mostly developed under one roof, with an almost proverbially dominant centralizing vision. Compared to the Bazaar I'm accustomed to (CTAN, CPAN, PyPI, crates.io, et cetera) all I could find for Mathematica is this: http://packagedata.net/ http://packagedata.net/. 212 packages. You don't need to go looking for gargoyles, grotesques or stained glass, Mathematica has them all, and relics besides.
- sctb 8y agoPreviously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19674966.
- bonoboTP 8y agoBased on the marketing and the visuals it seems like this really powerful and cool thing, but somehow I don't know anyone using it, nor do I see it "in the wild", e.g. blog posts playing with it, doing data science with it etc. Much more so with scientific Python, Jupyter notebooks etc. I guess being proprietary is quite a big limitation for its adoption.
- 1f60c 8y ago...never mind the fact that it costs several hundreds of dollars per year, even for personal use, while pretty much every computer ships with Python.