Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo

Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by noobermin on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:31PM (#9769383)

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.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by rndn on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @12:40AM (#9769615)

"You don't have Adobe Flash. Please download it."

Closed the tab.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by pjmlp on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:28AM (#9769806)

While you may feel good about it, you ended up loosing the opportunity to learn something.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by LukeB_UK on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @03:56AM (#9770253)

All major browsers and IE9+ support the video tag[0], there's no excuse to use flash for a video player nowadays

[0]: http://caniuse.com/#search=video

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by pjmlp on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @06:13AM (#9770645)

Lots of people are stuck on IE8, specially those on enterprise contexts.

I rather access information than complain how it is made available.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by sorich87 on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @02:01AM (#9769915)

Just FYI, some of us don't have flash installed to save battery life, not because we want to feel good...

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by rndn on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @08:37AM (#9771104)

I was using an iOS device at this point, so it was actually impossible for me to watch.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by DrMJG_HN on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:49PM (#9781886)

We have mobile streaming on the roadmap. You can upvote it. http://roadmap.livecoding.tv/

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @12:06AM (#9769487)

Uhm, so I signed up and...no stream. Not even a copy of the live stream?

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by noobermin on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @12:56PM (#9772887)

For future reference, he did eye check it first, I mistyped.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by DrMJG_HN on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:46PM (#9781874)

This is Michael from Livecoding.tv

Just to follow up on the issue you had at the beginning, what is your internet download speed?

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by drdeca on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:09AM (#9769742)

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.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by DrMJG_HN on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:50PM (#9781889)

Yeah, good point!

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by treelovinhippie on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:02AM (#9769716)

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.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by DrMJG_HN on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:55PM (#9781909)

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.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by batou on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @03:16AM (#9770125)

For that you are subjected to persistent marketing from experience. That turns me off a product right away.

Having a sales rep on your butt every day doesn't make you want to buy stuff.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo by supercoder on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @02:21AM (#9769976)

Agreed.

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