Stephen Wolfram's Picks of Cellular Automata from the Computational Universe
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Published 2021-07-27
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Chapters
0:00 Stream starts
0:40 Stephen gives an introduction
46:49 Stephen starts investigating the CAs
51:56 Liveminting begins
2:59:43 Q&A section
2:59:51 Do we have enough storage space to store the blockchain?
3:01:33 Do you have an opinion on the Chia "proof-of-storage" network, or more generally on the blockchain sustainability discussion?
3:04:30 When talking about data-storage for over 100+ years, which way would that be done? On hardware(in a Faraday cage)?, in a cloud? or by other means?
3:10:05 How is the 'memoires' example possible? How can the blockchain guarantee it can only be decrypted at a future time?!
3:11:02 Have you tried using a genetic algorithm for picking CA art pictures? For example generating iterative mutations with a human selecting the seed picture in each step.
3:12:42 Is there a marketplace to put this on sale now? Where is the contract for these NFTs? As I understand there is no marketplace yet, but functionality is already there, right?
3:12:53 Is there a way to make these "live" NFTs such that they continue to grow over time?
3:13:31 Do these store a PNG version or PDF version or the code to make it?
3:13:57 Is this minting code on GitHub or the function repository?
3:15:15 A question does irreducible also mean the complexity bigger "at each" step. Or can a computation that totally irreducible always have same complexity for each step?
3:17:06 Would you tell us about the limits of this rendering, namely why they are all "pyramid" like and what other way they could be calculated?
3:18:00 What are the gas fees to buy one of the nfts you just made?
3:19:11 Would there be anything interesting about cellular automata that used more than one start point? What if each start point was its own thread of rules?
3:21:15 Is it possible to make a reversible CA to get some initial condition of a compressed program?
3:25:38 Was there a reason that you chose the Cardano chain?
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All Comments (21)
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Every time I fall asleep, YouTube puts this on, I must have about 60 views on it but haven't watched more than 15 seconds.
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I fell asleep and I was apparently 50 minutes into this video
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Thanks for taking the time to engage the public. I know I enjoyed it and who knows who you'll inspire. Great show.
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Thank you Stephen from the bottom of my heart
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Hi and thank you, I'm an old 66-year-old guy now but I have always enjoyed mathematics. Thanks, this has helped familiarize and make me comfortable with the blockchain process. Keep up the great work.
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I fell asleep watching kurzgesagt and woke up to this
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i'm still not certain the universe can be explained completely by computation, but i also can not rule the possibility out, it's very interesting idea, which has seen recent progress, thanks for that
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Amazing work wish I could meet this guy everything he does are the things I contemplate daily
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I really like this, I like Stephen. In this you see his personability and hes cool
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Uhhh great stuff! Already love the start of it. 🙌
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This is on its own level. Brilliant! I suppose, or I'd like to think that, everyone has something they excel at, that's a cut above the rest in their specialty niche. But as I said, this
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thank u MR Wolfram
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Good one!
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Fascinating
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Nice to be here!
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a truly remarkable thing
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Thank you for being honest.
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Measures down to Lovelaces thats great.
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I went to sleep watching Vsause and woke up here. What the fuck happened between then and now
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I woke up to this
