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This morning one of my Ph.D. students (Kevin Lui) said to me, "I may have to implement this [number theory] algorithm for my thesis using Magma, because [some number theory algorithm] is broken in Sage." My visible continued failure to make Sage a viable alternative to commercial closed source math software almost made me cry...
Is CoCalc generating more funding for the development of Sage?
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I am a current employee of Wolfram Research and created an account just to say how very wrong this is. He literally yelled at an ex-employee so hard they went into labor. He is utterly convinced that everyone around him is an idiot, and that one day the world will realize how wrong they were about his ideology and dedicate museums to his honor, etc. He even compared himself to a Greek god in one of his meetings. He's…
In the livestreams he says things like "this is stupid", or "what the heck is this?", but I have never heard him say "YOU are stupid". Is he acting differently than normal in his livestreams? Also, one thing that I found a bit troubling is that the employees generally sound terrified, but I've had bosses who were great AND terrifying at the same time, so I have given Wolfram the benefit of the doubt. > He's definitel…
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He actually is interested in this and talks about it in his recent blog post here https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-producti... Search for EDID > for high-profile, high-production-value events, I have a little box that spoofs EDID strings to force my computer to send a specific signal, regardless of what the projector seems to be asking it for.
Wow, that was totally unexpected! Thinking back (circa 2013), I wonder what video quality lessons he got out of that particular set-up. From what I recall, we had something awful: 1) Presenter computer plugged into some sort of video capture hub, connected to computer A with video capture card that would composite camera video with slides. 2) Separate computer B running remote desktop into that computer to broadcast…
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