Mathematica Version 12 Released

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Post by mvm » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 4:23 PM UTC

Mathematica Version 12 Released
blog.stephenwolfram.com

Re: Mathematica Version 12 Released

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Post by dimitrov » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 4:34 PM UTC

I really think that Mathematica and Matlab failed to capitalize on the rise of AI and ML in the last decade. Seems like Python is the only go-to language these fields.

Re: Mathematica Version 12 Released

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Post by tableofzero » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 4:39 PM UTC

dimitrov wrote: post #2

I really think that Mathematica and Matlab failed to capitalize on the rise of AI and ML in the last decade. Seems like Python is the only go-to language these fields.

Mathematica has some great machine learning tools https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/MachineLearning... it looks like the have added even more http://www.wolfram.com/language/new-in-12/

Re: Mathematica Version 12 Released

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Post by copperx » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 4:42 PM UTC

I encourage everyone to watch at least one of the many livestreams[1] that Stephen Wolfram did while putting together this release. They changed my perception of Stephen, which I had gotten from the critiques of him that are everywhere on the internet. He is perpetually obsessed with his creation and does not accept mediocrity from his developers; but does so without attacking or belittling anyone, or feeling superior and being condescending, which I thought was his "thing" from what I had read.

He might still have that adolescent ego, and in his blog posts he still comes across as self-obsessed; but in his livestreams he comes across as a decent human.

[1]: https://www.stephenwolfram.com/livestreams/

Re: Mathematica Version 12 Released

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Post by mirekrusin » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 4:47 PM UTC

I know I'm dreaming, Stephen is rather on the opposite side, but if he would open source it all/most of it, he'd be one of the most famous people around. I wonder how he'd move financially wise with that kind of bold move?

Re: Mathematica Version 12 Released

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Post by waterside81 » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 4:49 PM UTC

copperx wrote: post #4

I encourage everyone to watch at least one of the many livestreams[1] that Stephen Wolfram did while putting together this release. They changed my perception of Stephen, which I had gotten from the critiques of him that are everywhere on the internet. He is perpetually obsessed with his creation and does not accept mediocrity from his developers; but does so without attacking or belittling anyone, or feeling superio…

I love his livestreams because of how normal he is. His meetings sound like any other meeting I've been. It's really a great watch.

Re: Mathematica Version 12 Released

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Post by overcast » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 4:55 PM UTC

waterside81 wrote: post #6

copperx wrote: post #4

I encourage everyone to watch at least one of the many livestreams[1] that Stephen Wolfram did while putting together this release. They changed my perception of Stephen, which I had gotten from the critiques of him that are everywhere on the internet. He is perpetually obsessed with his creation and does not accept mediocrity from his developers; but does so without attacking or belittling anyone, or feeling superio…

I love his livestreams because of how normal he is. His meetings sound like any other meeting I've been. It's really a great watch.

Geez, I hope not. Any other meeting I've been to has been a horrible waste of time, where 50% of it is spent trying to figure out why the VC isn't working, and the other 50% is spent scheduling the next meetings.

Re: Mathematica Version 12 Released

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Post by maliker » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 4:58 PM UTC

mirekrusin wrote: post #5

I know I'm dreaming, Stephen is rather on the opposite side, but if he would open source it all/most of it, he'd be one of the most famous people around. I wonder how he'd move financially wise with that kind of bold move?

Seems like he's far from open sourcing it. His team just published a long blog post (https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op...) explaining why they're closed source.

Re: Mathematica Version 12 Released

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 5:00 PM UTC

mirekrusin wrote: post #5

I know I'm dreaming, Stephen is rather on the opposite side, but if he would open source it all/most of it, he'd be one of the most famous people around. I wonder how he'd move financially wise with that kind of bold move?

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Re: Mathematica Version 12 Released

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Post by enriquto » Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 5:13 PM UTC

maliker wrote: post #8

mirekrusin wrote: post #5

I know I'm dreaming, Stephen is rather on the opposite side, but if he would open source it all/most of it, he'd be one of the most famous people around. I wonder how he'd move financially wise with that kind of bold move?

Seems like he's far from open sourcing it. His team just published a long blog post ( https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op... ) explaining why they're closed source.

wow, I was expecting an intelligent list of reasons why he cannot explain how mathematica works internally (I'm sure there are many). Instead, this post is a ridiculous strawman argument against the open development model.

For all the reasons he says, he could perfectly publish the source code of mathematica (e.g. under the AGPL) but still do not accept external pull requests. There are many successful open-source/closed-development projects out there.