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Not to weigh against Wolfram one last time, but he's (finally?) renamed Mathematica just "Wolfram". Why he would toss out years of brand-related goodwill is bey

Not to weigh against Wolfram one last time, but he's (finally?) renamed Mathematica just "Wolfram". Why he would toss out years of brand-related goodwill is beyond me.

SubjectToChange 2y ago
Have you opening Mathematica recently? Or visited the product page for Mathematica[1]? The only change has been branding the language itself as the “Wolfram Language” where Mathematica is just one of their product offerings. [1]: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/?source=nav https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/?source=nav
- nxobject 2y ago
  Mathematica is open on my computer as we speak (or, rather, now Wolfram.app). The "About" screen indicates "Wolfram 14.2". I have a seat on an site licence. https://imgur.com/a/WUpSsF8 https://imgur.com/a/WUpSsF8 (If you're interested in what I'm currently doing with it, I'm playing around with Mathematica's neural network library.)
  - SubjectToChange 2y ago
    The "About" screen indicates "Wolfram 14.2" Mathematica (MMA) and the Wolfram Language (WL) used to be the one and the same. But now a user could be using WL in a web based notebook, through Wolfram Alpha, or even on SystemModeler. The brand name “Mathematica” isn’t going anywhere, not after nearly forty years. It’s basically marketing being like “how do we communicate updates to WL as not just being updates to MMA?”.
    - kgwgk 2y ago
      > The brand name “Mathematica” isn’t going anywhere But it’s not what it used to be. Now you don’t “run” Mathematica - you “access” it running another program. It’s basically marketing to weaken one brand and strengthen the other. “Upgrading from Mathematica to Wolfram” https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/UpgradingFromMathematicaToWolfram.html https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/UpgradingFro...
  - FilosofumRex 2y ago
    you got to be joking, do you play with slide rules and abacus too NN in Mathematica is a just a toy and artifact of a bygone era. Try HuggingFace https://github.com/huggingface/course https://github.com/huggingface/course or Karpathy's intro https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
Suppafly 2y ago
>Why he would toss out years of brand-related goodwill is beyond me. I suspect that Wolfram is the bigger name ever since Wolfram Alpha has been a thing. I'm sure way more people interact with that than Mathematica. Besides, as far as I can tell, it's still named and marketed as Wolfram Mathematica, not really sure where you got the idea it was renamed.

Not to weigh against Wolfram one last time, but he's (finally?) renamed Mathematica just "Wolfram". Why he would toss out years of brand-related goodwill is beyond me.

SubjectToChange 2y ago

Have you opening Mathematica recently? Or visited the product page for Mathematica[1]? The only change has been branding the language itself as the “Wolfram Language” where Mathematica is just one of their product offerings. [1]: https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/?source=nav https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/?source=nav

nxobject 2y ago
Mathematica is open on my computer as we speak (or, rather, now Wolfram.app). The "About" screen indicates "Wolfram 14.2". I have a seat on an site licence. https://imgur.com/a/WUpSsF8 https://imgur.com/a/WUpSsF8 (If you're interested in what I'm currently doing with it, I'm playing around with Mathematica's neural network library.)
- SubjectToChange 2y ago
  The "About" screen indicates "Wolfram 14.2" Mathematica (MMA) and the Wolfram Language (WL) used to be the one and the same. But now a user could be using WL in a web based notebook, through Wolfram Alpha, or even on SystemModeler. The brand name “Mathematica” isn’t going anywhere, not after nearly forty years. It’s basically marketing being like “how do we communicate updates to WL as not just being updates to MMA?”.
  - kgwgk 2y ago
    > The brand name “Mathematica” isn’t going anywhere But it’s not what it used to be. Now you don’t “run” Mathematica - you “access” it running another program. It’s basically marketing to weaken one brand and strengthen the other. “Upgrading from Mathematica to Wolfram” https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/UpgradingFromMathematicaToWolfram.html https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/UpgradingFro...
- FilosofumRex 2y ago
  you got to be joking, do you play with slide rules and abacus too NN in Mathematica is a just a toy and artifact of a bygone era. Try HuggingFace https://github.com/huggingface/course https://github.com/huggingface/course or Karpathy's intro https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

Suppafly 2y ago

>Why he would toss out years of brand-related goodwill is beyond me. I suspect that Wolfram is the bigger name ever since Wolfram Alpha has been a thing. I'm sure way more people interact with that than Mathematica. Besides, as far as I can tell, it's still named and marketed as Wolfram Mathematica, not really sure where you got the idea it was renamed.