Mobile Automata 1, NKS SS Series – Ch 3

Posted on March 20, 2009 by The NKS Blog Team

In Chapter 3, Wolfram goes through some simple programs/machines that generate complex results at a certain threshold of complexity in the rules.
What we find with each of the simple programs is that after we reach the threshold of complexity, the addition of further rules/states does not ultimately change the behavior that is seen. This is [...]

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Wolfram|Alpha is Coming!

Posted on March 9, 2009 by The NKS Blog Team

A new breathrough in web searching has been announced by Stephen Wolfram: Wolfram|Alpha is Coming!

In the article, Wolfram describes the breakthrough as “…vastly smarter than (and different from) Google. Google simply retrieves documents based on keyword searches. Google doesn’t understand the question or the answer, and doesn’t compute answers based on models of various fields [...]

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