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Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo

34 points by akharris 11y ago

GuiA 11y ago
"Log in to watch" Closed the tab.
- noobermin 11y ago
  I signed up anyway. Since giving them my email, I haven't gotten the stream to work for more than a minute before it deciding it's unavailable...and I hear him too before it decides to end it, so I'm confused. I was warned by a pane that it's in beta, I supposed. After a few tries, it seems to work now. Ie. warning, choppy user experience. EDIT: It was actually pretty interesting. He took a random piece of code someone shared and ran it, not after eye checking it first, of course. It ran something meant for cellular automata(?) which actually printed out the sender's name in the grid. Besides the fun, it was interesting watching Wolfram himself code live--very cordial and friendly. I'd definitely want to check out the next one.
  - seanmcdirmid 11y ago
    Uhm, so I signed up and...no stream. Not even a copy of the live stream?
  - rndn 11y ago
    "You don't have Adobe Flash. Please download it." Closed the tab.
    - pjmlp 11y ago
      While you may feel good about it, you ended up loosing the opportunity to learn something.
      - sorich87 11y ago
        Just FYI, some of us don't have flash installed to save battery life, not because we want to feel good...
      - LukeB_UK 11y ago
        All major browsers and IE9+ support the video tag[0], there's no excuse to use flash for a video player nowadays [0]: http://caniuse.com/#search=video http://caniuse.com/#search=video
        pjmlp 11y ago
        Lots of people are stuck on IE8, specially those on enterprise contexts. I rather access information than complain how it is made available.
      - rndn 11y ago
        I was using an iOS device at this point, so it was actually impossible for me to watch.
        DrMJG_HN 11y ago
        We have mobile streaming on the roadmap. You can upvote it. http://roadmap.livecoding.tv/ http://roadmap.livecoding.tv/
  - noobermin 11y ago
    For future reference, he did eye check it first, I mistyped.
  - DrMJG_HN 11y ago
    This is Michael from Livecoding.tv Just to follow up on the issue you had at the beginning, what is your internet download speed?
- treelovinhippie 11y ago
  Yeah they need to tweak that onboarding experience. Although I'm sure announcing Wolfram is livestreaming and then forcing signups to view the stream, probably resulted in a lot of signups.
  - DrMJG_HN 11y ago
    The stream could actually be viewed on the index page without signing up. Next time, we'll try to make such shows viewable on the channel without signing up.
- drdeca 11y ago
  Also, when signing up, it takes you to an area to fill in more (apparently optional) information, and then presumably to the homepage, instead of including a link to go back to what one was trying to view, which I think would have been more convenient.
  - DrMJG_HN 11y ago
    Yeah, good point!
- supercoder 11y ago
  Agreed.
- batou 11y ago
  For that you are subjected to persistent marketing from experience. That turns me off a product right away. Having a sales rep on your butt every day doesn't make you want to buy stuff.
- DrMJG_HN 11y ago
  The stream could actually be viewed on the index page without signing up. Next time, we'll try to make such shows viewable on the channel without signing up.
brobdingnagian 11y ago
"Um, Um, Um, Um" - not very entertaining.
peterayemi 11y ago
Watching the creator of a programming language program in it is a revealing experience. Stephen Wolfram is genius level smart.
- jordigh 11y ago
  He's not the sole creator. He just managed to sue into submission all of his coauthors.
- DrMJG_HN 11y ago
  Yeah, he did a good job!
callil 11y ago
That was a lot of fun. He mentioned he would be streaming again soon and even solicited problems to work on. So if you have something really hard to solve now's your chance!
- DrMJG_HN 11y ago
  Yeah, was a fun show and Wolfram explained things well. Was nice to see such him in action.
jtchang 11y ago
What a shitty experience. See stream...log in to watch...give up facebook connect email...no stream. AHHHHHHH
- DrMJG_HN 11y ago
  This is Michael, co-founder of Livecoding.tv Could you give more details of the issue you faced? Which username? Could you please write me an email: michael@livecoding.tv Thanks!
jkldotio 11y ago
Isn't the Wolfram "Language" more like a cloud computing service? Almost all of the magic they do in the demos I've seen so far seems to be just neatly wrapped APIs to their web services. That's fair enough for those that know the predecessor languages/syntax and know what they are buying into when they use the Wolfram Language, but I wince at the thought of this being used by educational institutions or as someone's first language.
- Synaesthesia 11y ago
  It was formerly just the Mathematica language - they did then add API's for their web-services, Wolfram-Alpha and renamed it Wolfram language at some point in the recent past. It's a pretty proper language on it's own, particularly for scientific/numerical work. It learnt it at University for a Physics module, and I liked it, I agree it's not the best first language though.

34 points by akharris 11y ago

GuiA 11y ago

"Log in to watch" Closed the tab.

noobermin 11y ago
I signed up anyway. Since giving them my email, I haven't gotten the stream to work for more than a minute before it deciding it's unavailable...and I hear him too before it decides to end it, so I'm confused. I was warned by a pane that it's in beta, I supposed. After a few tries, it seems to work now. Ie. warning, choppy user experience. EDIT: It was actually pretty interesting. He took a random piece of code someone shared and ran it, not after eye checking it first, of course. It ran something meant for cellular automata(?) which actually printed out the sender's name in the grid. Besides the fun, it was interesting watching Wolfram himself code live--very cordial and friendly. I'd definitely want to check out the next one.
- seanmcdirmid 11y ago
  Uhm, so I signed up and...no stream. Not even a copy of the live stream?
- rndn 11y ago
  "You don't have Adobe Flash. Please download it." Closed the tab.
  - pjmlp 11y ago
    While you may feel good about it, you ended up loosing the opportunity to learn something.
    - sorich87 11y ago
      Just FYI, some of us don't have flash installed to save battery life, not because we want to feel good...
    - LukeB_UK 11y ago
      All major browsers and IE9+ support the video tag[0], there's no excuse to use flash for a video player nowadays [0]: http://caniuse.com/#search=video http://caniuse.com/#search=video
      - pjmlp 11y ago
        Lots of people are stuck on IE8, specially those on enterprise contexts. I rather access information than complain how it is made available.
    - rndn 11y ago
      I was using an iOS device at this point, so it was actually impossible for me to watch.
      - DrMJG_HN 11y ago
        We have mobile streaming on the roadmap. You can upvote it. http://roadmap.livecoding.tv/ http://roadmap.livecoding.tv/
- noobermin 11y ago
  For future reference, he did eye check it first, I mistyped.
- DrMJG_HN 11y ago
  This is Michael from Livecoding.tv Just to follow up on the issue you had at the beginning, what is your internet download speed?
treelovinhippie 11y ago
Yeah they need to tweak that onboarding experience. Although I'm sure announcing Wolfram is livestreaming and then forcing signups to view the stream, probably resulted in a lot of signups.
- DrMJG_HN 11y ago
  The stream could actually be viewed on the index page without signing up. Next time, we'll try to make such shows viewable on the channel without signing up.
drdeca 11y ago
Also, when signing up, it takes you to an area to fill in more (apparently optional) information, and then presumably to the homepage, instead of including a link to go back to what one was trying to view, which I think would have been more convenient.
- DrMJG_HN 11y ago
  Yeah, good point!
supercoder 11y ago
Agreed.
batou 11y ago
For that you are subjected to persistent marketing from experience. That turns me off a product right away. Having a sales rep on your butt every day doesn't make you want to buy stuff.
DrMJG_HN 11y ago
The stream could actually be viewed on the index page without signing up. Next time, we'll try to make such shows viewable on the channel without signing up.

brobdingnagian 11y ago

"Um, Um, Um, Um" - not very entertaining.

peterayemi 11y ago

Watching the creator of a programming language program in it is a revealing experience. Stephen Wolfram is genius level smart.

jordigh 11y ago
He's not the sole creator. He just managed to sue into submission all of his coauthors.
DrMJG_HN 11y ago
Yeah, he did a good job!

callil 11y ago

That was a lot of fun. He mentioned he would be streaming again soon and even solicited problems to work on. So if you have something really hard to solve now's your chance!

DrMJG_HN 11y ago
Yeah, was a fun show and Wolfram explained things well. Was nice to see such him in action.

jtchang 11y ago

What a shitty experience. See stream...log in to watch...give up facebook connect email...no stream. AHHHHHHH

DrMJG_HN 11y ago
This is Michael, co-founder of Livecoding.tv Could you give more details of the issue you faced? Which username? Could you please write me an email: michael@livecoding.tv Thanks!

jkldotio 11y ago

Isn't the Wolfram "Language" more like a cloud computing service? Almost all of the magic they do in the demos I've seen so far seems to be just neatly wrapped APIs to their web services. That's fair enough for those that know the predecessor languages/syntax and know what they are buying into when they use the Wolfram Language, but I wince at the thought of this being used by educational institutions or as someone's first language.

Synaesthesia 11y ago
It was formerly just the Mathematica language - they did then add API's for their web-services, Wolfram-Alpha and renamed it Wolfram language at some point in the recent past. It's a pretty proper language on it's own, particularly for scientific/numerical work. It learnt it at University for a Physics module, and I liked it, I agree it's not the best first language though.