Mathematica 14
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> In the arc of intellectual history it defines a broad, new, computational paradigm for formalizing the world.
I am in awe of what Wolfram achieved with Mathematica. And also the size of their ego.
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> In the arc of intellectual history it defines a broad, new, computational paradigm for formalizing the world. I am in awe of what Wolfram achieved with Mathematica. And also the size of their ego.
I was honestly expecting Wolfram himself to have claimed the invention of LLMs or transformers, probably by saying it’s really a scaled up implementation of some other function in Mathematica.
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#5Ask HN: I've never met someone who uses Mathematica, I imagine its users are even rarer outside the academic circles. I've met many who use Matlab, R, Python, Excel, etc.
If you're using it, what are you using it for exactly? In what way is it irreplaceable by other tools out there, if at all?
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#6Ask HN: I've never met someone who uses Mathematica, I imagine its users are even rarer outside the academic circles. I've met many who use Matlab, R, Python, Excel, etc. If you're using it, what are you using it for exactly? In what way is it irreplaceable by other tools out there, if at all?
Symbolic computation. Yeah, I guess you can do it in SymPy, but it's more painful.
It's a really pleasant environment for certain type of work.
The only thing missing is better type systems.
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> It’s only recently that I’ve begun to properly internalize just how broad the implications of having a computational language really are—even though, ironically, I’ve spent much of my life engaged precisely in the consuming task of building the world’s only large-scale computational language.
Exemplar of humility.
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#8This is by far the most detailed announcement I have ever seen.
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#9Ask HN: I've never met someone who uses Mathematica, I imagine its users are even rarer outside the academic circles. I've met many who use Matlab, R, Python, Excel, etc. If you're using it, what are you using it for exactly? In what way is it irreplaceable by other tools out there, if at all?
Find it pretty helpful as a math-adjacent academic. It's great at coming up with counterexamples to inequalities with FindInstance. I don't know how irreplaceable it is, but in general I find the UI for manipulating symbolic equations nicer to use than anything else I've tried.
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#10Ask HN: I've never met someone who uses Mathematica, I imagine its users are even rarer outside the academic circles. I've met many who use Matlab, R, Python, Excel, etc. If you're using it, what are you using it for exactly? In what way is it irreplaceable by other tools out there, if at all?
It’s certainly the best of the symbolic computational tools that I’ve tried. However, my problem with such tools is that that they work great for simple examples in my experience but scaling them to work with non-trivial systems is rough. It may be user error on my part, but the path between simple and complex is non-obvious.