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It's under the Live tab of Wolfram's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WolframResearch/streams Sessions are called Live CEOing, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id0KH0sfHI8
Thanks, I should have linked. Also he cross-posts to his site: https://livestreams.stephenwolfram.com/category/live-ceoing/ The next one is today, 4:30 PM ET!
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If that was really going to be the case then we wouldn't be having this discussion, there would already be an open source streaking ahead.
Have you seen a little piece of software called Python that basically single-handedly ushered the age of AI? What did Wolfram do except playing toys in his high walled sandbox? Figuratively half of the comments under this post are "I guess it's cute but I can't see anything in there that I couldn't do with Python".
If the open source was so great what Wolfram did would be irrelevant.
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Academic institutions already pay salaries whether they fund open source development or Wolfram Research, so not sure what you’re trying to argue. People haven’t been starving while doing research in the open.
But academic institutions didn’t produce Mathematica. The point is simple: a lot of useful software like Mathematica has not been open-source for a reason. It is not about distribution being free; it is about production being expensive.
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Have you seen a little piece of software called Python that basically single-handedly ushered the age of AI? What did Wolfram do except playing toys in his high walled sandbox? Figuratively half of the comments under this post are "I guess it's cute but I can't see anything in there that I couldn't do with Python".
Yet people are still paying for Mathematica and you are calling for it to be open sourced. If the open source was so great what Wolfram did would be irrelevant.
For all of Wolfram hubris, Mathematica is just the third kind on the block, after Matlab and Maple. With his ambitions he was obviously aiming for something more culturally relevant.
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so no money then? what i said
Currency requires trade to generate tax revenue, and is like holding a bucket of water with a hole in the bottom. Folks could nationalize gold reserves >1oz like the US did to exit the depression, publish holding-company investment owners, tax investment properties at 6% of assessed value every year, and pass a right-of-first-sale to citizens regardless of bid amount on residential zoned estates like Singapore. One m…
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Currency requires trade to generate tax revenue, and is like holding a bucket of water with a hole in the bottom. Folks could nationalize gold reserves >1oz like the US did to exit the depression, publish holding-company investment owners, tax investment properties at 6% of assessed value every year, and pass a right-of-first-sale to citizens regardless of bid amount on residential zoned estates like Singapore. One m…
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Note, we also still buy inexpensive private insurance coverage mostly for travel, as it is tax deductible unlike the public coverage.
You should get outside for a walk, and meet real people. =3
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But academic institutions didn’t produce Mathematica. The point is simple: a lot of useful software like Mathematica has not been open-source for a reason. It is not about distribution being free; it is about production being expensive.
Some form of Mathematica has been open for a long time, in the form of Sage etc. There's no reason why academic institutions can't pool more money to develop these further.
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Part of the inferred problem is a lack of respect for others, because some simply don't respect themselves. This was part of the PSA workable measures video. Note, we also still buy inexpensive private insurance coverage mostly for travel, as it is tax deductible unlike the public coverage. You should get outside for a walk, and meet real people. =3