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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"What could possibly go wrong?" Exploring the ruliology of the unexpected ... to develop a theory of bugs ... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/07/towa...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just finished the very energizing experience of working with 84 talented high-school students at our 2026 Wolfram Summer Research Program (& coming up with projects that suit them). It's so impressive and encouraging to see what they were able to do in <2 weeks! education.wolfram.com/summer-resea...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Another new thing delivered with Version 15: click a button to give Wolfram superpowers to your AI system! Immediately connect Claude, Codex, etc. to your local Wolfram|One, Mathematica, etc. via MCP... www.wolfram.com/artificial-i...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Launched today: Version 15 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica. Built-in (useful) AI, and a *lot* of new core functionality... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/laun...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What happens when agents with all possible strategies compete? That's a question for ruliology. With some surprising answers... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/game...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
42 years ago today I made a surprising discovery that every year has been showing us more and more about the answer to life, the universe and everything... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/a-50...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Making Wolfram tech available as a Foundation Tool for LLM foundation models... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/02/maki...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Might we now have the science we need to actually answer many of the core questions of metaphysics? writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/02/what...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Attacking the P vs. NP problem with ruliology ... the beginnings of empirical theoretical computer science writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/p-vs...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What is ruliology? Posting an explanation of what one can think of as the ultimate basic science---the most foundational and most general form of theoretical science... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what...
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What Is Ruliology?
Stephen Wolfram explains the science of ruliology--studying what abstract rules do--and integral applications of the science in his own work.
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
"Those posts have enough in them to be little books!" Well, now they are. (With more to come...) www.wolfram-media.com/products/
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Victorians called it "protoplasm". But what really is "living matter"? And can we make a foundational theory of such a microscopically "bulk orchestrated" form of matter? Seems like maybe we can ... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/11/what...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Congratulations to our 2025 Wolfram Innovator Award winners! Such an interesting group doing such interesting and important things! blog.wolfram.com/2025/11/07/a...
Image of a glass award and the 2025 Wolfram Innovator Award winners on a red background
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Yes, we have a rich history. But as I prepare (for the 37th time!) for my keynote tomorrow at our annual Wolfram Technology Conference I'm most excited to talk about what's next. Join me live at 1 pm ET www.youtube.com/Wolfram_Rese...
A colorful array of the Wolframlogo, nicknamed "Spikey", starting with the first version of Mathematica up to a ? for an unannounced version coming with version 15 of the software
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Dropped in at Bletchley Park ... and at the National Museum of Computing met an old friend: an Elliott 903---the first kind of computer I used (in 1972). I think I've aged better...
Stephen Wolfram standing beside an Elliott 903 computer
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If you do functional programming (like in Wolfram Language) you've probably used lots of pure functions, or lambdas. But what are lambdas like in the wild? Things I'm doing in CS, bio and ML converged to make me curious to find out... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/09/the-...
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The Ruliology of Lambdas
Stephen Wolfram explains the rich ruliology of lambdas, made particularly significant by their connection to practical computing. Covers basic computations to undecidability to multiway graphs and evaluation strategies.
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Trying to understand yet another strange collection of creatures in the computational universe....
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I've been getting mail with unsolicited "theories of physics" for 50 (!) years. What can one do with all that enthusiasm and energy? Maybe now I have an idea... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/08/i-ha...
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“I Have a Theory Too”: The Challenge and Opportunity of Avocational Science
Stephen Wolfram encourages amateur scientists to channel their passion, truly learn the subject that interests them and then systematically explore the computational universe using ruliology.
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Launching Version 14.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica. It's a version with a particularly large number of very long-awaited features (including ones planned for 38(!) years) ... that we finally figured out how to deliver! 🎁 writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/08/new-...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Nice pictures I happened to just get and thought I should share...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Wow! Look at what high school students just did in 2 weeks #WithWolfram at the Wolfram High School Summer Research Program. (And, yes, in "extreme professoring mode" I tried to get to know all 75 students and suggest projects that would be great fits for each of them...)
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Just finished three exciting weeks of our (23rd!) annual Wolfram Summer School ... with lots of interesting projects done ... www.wolframcloud.com/obj/microsit...
Gallery of Wolfram Summer School 2025 project tiles that include an image representing the project, the project title, a photo of the student who created the project, and their name.
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I've often wondered what it'd be like if we had bigger brains. It's not easy to imagine what minds beyond ours might be like ... but I just gave it a try ... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/05/what...
Image is a brain MRI seen from top down, followed by an arrow pointing right and three dots.  Original image this is based on is actually Stephen Wolfram's brain
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Today is the birthday of A New Kind of Science. What a huge project that was (10+ years, etc.)! I'm still amazed it actually got done. At the 20th anniversary I told some of the behind-the-scenes story... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/05/the-...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
From the point of view of science I've never been too excited about the Game of Life. But now I realize that what's really exciting about it is what it tells us about what we can call metaengineering... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/03/what...
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Wolfram @wolframresearch.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
#PiDay served with a slice of off the cuff history from @stephenwolfram.bsky.social youtu.be/fvbDvPbH00w?...
Photo of Stephen Wolfram with his hands open. Between his hands, there is a black circle with a large red pi symbol in the middle. Surrounding the pi symbol is a multitude of numbers from pi in red and white.
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I'm excited to share yet another (unexpected) application of my recent science: a computational formalization for foundations of medicine. (Why is medicine hard? Are there a finite number of diseases? ...) writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/02/towa...
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Towards a Computational Formalization for Foundations of Medicine
Stephen Wolfram takes the first steps in developing a medical metamodel framework for studying and formalizing the abstract foundations of medicine.
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A quarter century ago this minute ... a century-old problem was solved when out of my Mathematica program popped the shortest possible axiom system for logic ... though to this day nobody understands the computer-generated proof...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: big data meets computation & AI... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/01/laun...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
My father would have been 100 years old today ... which really helps humanize for me what a century means...
Photo collage of Hugo Wolfram, spanning nearly a decade and including the street he lived on over 80 years ago
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Just wrapped this year's Wolfram Science Winter School. Lots of ruliological intuition building, mixed with mathematical physics and some computational philosophy... education.wolfram.com/programs/
Listing of project titles spanning Lie Brackets, Causality, Lady Mary Shepherd, Consciousness and Quantum Optics
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Formalized math: meet computational irreducibility. A simple (if surprising) theorem. An automated proof nobody seems able to understand. A tale of adventure in the wilds of metamathematical space... #MathSky writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/01/who-...
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Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
Stephen Wolfram discusses understanding proofs discovered using automated theorem proving. Based on Wolfram’s proof of the simplest axioms of logic of Boolean algebra.
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
An unexpected little ruliological discovery just made live a few minutes ago during my inaugural "Q&A for Scientists" livestream... youtu.be/9_t1ysElDL8
An intricate black and white photo of a resulting pattern in a triangle shape.  Reminiscent of lace or other creative patterned textiles
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Useful to the point of being revolutionary: introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant! writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/12/usef...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Biological evolution is a fundamentally computational phenomenon! Just posted lots of new results (and surprises) from my minimal model of adaptive evolution... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/12/foun...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Born 65 years ago this minute. Happy to say the last five years have been my all-time most productive (so far)... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/five...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Taller and broader. Announcing Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ... available today for desktop, cloud, etc. The same core mission and core ideas. But 36 years later ... check out what it's turned into! writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/07/yet-...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 18/07/2024
How do the LLMs compare? Leveraging our "code grading" tech to introduce weekly computationally grounded LLM benchmarking... www.wolfram.com/llm-benchmar...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Today my all-time favorite science discovery is 40 yrs old! My June 1, 1984 diary told me to "take pict." of "R30" on a 9 pm flight to London ... which is when I finally realized (2 yrs after first generating it) what a big deal rule 30 is...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 04/05/2024
Foundations of physics, mathematics, computing ... now biology! The ruliad is on a roll.... (Up next: machine learning ?) writings.stephenwolfram.com/all-by-date/
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
They're the ruliad champions! The "busy beavers" of the (symmetric 3-color) cellular automaton world ... the rules that live longest before dying out... [How does that rule "know" to die out after 2194 steps??] writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/05/why-...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
Biological evolution. Machine learning. Why do adaptive processes actually work? Finally found what seems like a good minimal model for biological evolution.... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/05/why-...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
Found some new friends today in the computational universe:
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
In case you missed today's eclipse, there are always more to come (at least for the next few hundred million years). Here's where the total eclipses will be for the next 100 years: writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/comp...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
The eclipse from first principles: using the Wolfram Language (and its SolarEclipse[] function) to compute eclipses (and to analyze a couple of the eclipses I've seen) writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/comp...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
How do we know precisely when the April 8 North American eclipse will happen? Well, it's a rather fascinating tale of science and computation---spanning more than 2000 years, and featuring many of the all-time greats of mathematics and physics... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/when...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
I've been wondering: can AI solve science? I just did some analysis... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/03/can-...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
AI, AI, what can you do?
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
ARPublish[ ] from Wolfram Language to the Moon... writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/06/llm-...
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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Say it with Wolfram Language: a card deck's worth of traditional-tweet-length code nuggets that make a world of different images, some surprising, some artistic, some mysterious .... now available as Wolfram Code Cards www.wolframcloud.com/obj/microsit...
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