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Todd Rowland
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What do you get someone who already has all the Mathematica T-shirts and posters? (Sadly, this link to the good stuff at the Wolfram store is almost impossible to find https://store.wolfram.com/view/misc/ ) Maybe they've already read A New...
I wanted an unlabeled map for a geography test, and looking at the web I realized it would be easier to just make a custom map using CountryData. Turned out I had to instead use AdministrativeDivisionData for the US states, and I had to do a web...
I just noticed a [paper][1] that Carlo Rovelli wrote on the 2nd law of thermodynamics. He is a physicist famous for quantum gravity, and usually has interesting things to say, but he seems to not have read Stephen Wolfram's [A New Kind of...
One approach is to make a parametrized guess and then use Reduce. For example, try g[c0_,c1_,c2_][x_]:=c0+c1*x+c2*x^2 and then use Reduce on a small set of examples. FullSimplify[Reduce[...
This was a great project. I was wondering, since the general impression is that typical behaviors are already found in simple rules, how the machine learning compares to simple statistics. For example, a quick test for halting might be to examine a...
Great job! You might be interested in a simpler proof. One approach is to use experimental mathematics by playing around and discovering statements that seem true. If you accumulate enough then you'll find the right ones that can form lemmas to...
Since it is basketball season (right now we are in the middle of March madness) I thought it'd be fun to make a basketball simulation. Basketball Boids is motivated by the boids model of bird flocks, with a term for separation from teammates, a term...
Great post. This function is very useful, although a little difficult to realize when it can help your code. One thing it is good for is for making efficient experiments with CellularAutomaton, because you can get the minimal list that contains...
You are best off finding a representation of your algebra (e.g. if it is associative then maybe you can find a matrix representation), but there is something you can do with generators and relations. Note that it is the relations part that is...
I didn't think of it that way. One universal computer can emulate another one, and you could think of it as an encryption, even if it is not an intentional encryption. There might be some confusion though between the decoding needed by humans from...