Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo
by noobermin on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:31PM
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I signed up anyway. Since giving them my email, I haven't gotten the stream to work for more than a minute before it deciding it's unavailable...and I hear him too before it decides to end it, so I'm confused. I was warned by a pane that it's in beta, I supposed. After a few tries, it seems to work now.
Ie. warning, choppy user experience.
EDIT: It was actually pretty interesting. He took a random piece of code someone shared and ran it, not after eye checking it first, of course. It ran something meant for cellular automata(?) which actually printed out the sender's name in the grid. Besides the fun, it was interesting watching Wolfram himself code live--very cordial and friendly. I'd definitely want to check out the next one.
Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo
by drdeca on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:09AM
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Also, when signing up, it takes you to an area to fill in more (apparently optional) information, and then presumably to the homepage, instead of including a link to go back to what one was trying to view, which I think would have been more convenient.
Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo
by treelovinhippie on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:02AM
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Yeah they need to tweak that onboarding experience. Although I'm sure announcing Wolfram is livestreaming and then forcing signups to view the stream, probably resulted in a lot of signups.
Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo
by DrMJG_HN on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:55PM
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The stream could actually be viewed on the index page without signing up. Next time, we'll try to make such shows viewable on the channel without signing up.
Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo
by DrMJG_HN on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:40PM
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This is Michael, co-founder of Livecoding.tv
Could you give more details of the issue you faced?
Which username? Could you please write me an email: [email protected]
Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo
by jkldotio on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @03:11AM
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Isn't the Wolfram "Language" more like a cloud computing service? Almost all of the magic they do in the demos I've seen so far seems to be just neatly wrapped APIs to their web services. That's fair enough for those that know the predecessor languages/syntax and know what they are buying into when they use the Wolfram Language, but I wince at the thought of this being used by educational institutions or as someone's first language.
Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo
by Synaesthesia on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @03:39AM
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It was formerly just the Mathematica language - they did then add API's for their web-services, Wolfram-Alpha and renamed it Wolfram language at some point in the recent past.
It's a pretty proper language on it's own, particularly for scientific/numerical work. It learnt it at University for a Physics module, and I liked it, I agree it's not the best first language though.
Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo
by callil on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:51PM
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That was a lot of fun. He mentioned he would be streaming again soon and even solicited problems to work on. So if you have something really hard to solve now's your chance!
Closed the tab.
Ie. warning, choppy user experience.
EDIT: It was actually pretty interesting. He took a random piece of code someone shared and ran it, not after eye checking it first, of course. It ran something meant for cellular automata(?) which actually printed out the sender's name in the grid. Besides the fun, it was interesting watching Wolfram himself code live--very cordial and friendly. I'd definitely want to check out the next one.
Closed the tab.
[0]: http://caniuse.com/#search=video
I rather access information than complain how it is made available.
Just to follow up on the issue you had at the beginning, what is your internet download speed?
Having a sales rep on your butt every day doesn't make you want to buy stuff.
Thanks!
It's a pretty proper language on it's own, particularly for scientific/numerical work. It learnt it at University for a Physics module, and I liked it, I agree it's not the best first language though.