The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Business, Innovation and Managing Life (December 8, 2021)


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Questions include: Has Wolfram Research, Inc., done any research and/or deals connected with household/personal robots such as Amazon's Astro? - Question about your personal data logging: have you identified any low-hanging fruit that could be broadly useful for "managing life"? Have you done any ML on that data? - When did you realize you could do science for a living? Did you ever expect you'd do something else? - Are people the world over losing confidence in fiat money and governments in general? - What do you do to keep up your energy, supplements, omega 3 oils? - What is the difference between planning for the future and envisioning a future? - I work 9 AM to 9 PM, in programming/math. I feel its fine, but people say i work too much and that i should give myself a break. Should i listen? When does your working day end? - Music while working? - Do you advise young professionals to "play the game", as in follow rules, meet requirements, concede to superiors, be political, etc., in academia or commercial? do you respect people who do this approach? - What do you spend your personal money on, do you ever treat yourself to sth nice, jewelry, fine dinner, etc. ? - Did you ever have to live with noisy upstairs neighbors? - How do you decide between accuracy, speed and readability of code? Which tradeoff do you take and why? - What's your opinion on company acquisition? Have Wolfram Research ever acquired other companies? If so, how to quickly integrate an acquired company? - My dad retired very early and he's got no direction, no focus or job. So he's digging himself into a pit. What can I advise he learns/does that would be worth the doing? - ​Building an app that takes human language as input, do you feel that current state of the art in parsers and compilers (based on Chomsky/Trees/AST from >30 years ago) are in need of a rethink?

Questions include: Has Wolfram Research, Inc., done any research and/or deals connected with household/personal robots such as Amazon's Astro? - Question about your personal data logging: have you identified any low-hanging fruit that could be broadly useful for "managing life"? Have you done any ML on that data? - When did you realize you could do science for a living? Did you ever expect you'd do something else? - Are people the world over losing confidence in fiat money and governments in general? - What do you do to keep up your energy, supplements, omega 3 oils? - What is the difference between planning for the future and envisioning a future? - I work 9 AM to 9 PM, in programming/math. I feel its fine, but people say i work too much and that i should give myself a break. Should i listen? When does your working day end? - Music while working? - Do you advise young professionals to "play the game", as in follow rules, meet requirements, concede to superiors, be political, etc., in academia or commercial? do you respect people who do this approach? - What do you spend your personal money on, do you ever treat yourself to sth nice, jewelry, fine dinner, etc. ? - Did you ever have to live with noisy upstairs neighbours? - How do you decide between accuracy, speed and readability of code? Which tradeoff do you take and why? - What's your opinion on company acquisition? Have Wolfram Research ever acquired other companies? If so, how to quickly integrate an acquired company? - My dad retired very early and he's got no direction, no focus or job. So he's digging himself into a pit. What can I advise he learns/does that would be worth the doing? - ​Building an app that takes human language as input, do you feel that current state of the art in parsers and compilers (based on Chomsky/Trees/AST from >30 years ago) are in need of a rethink?

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