Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [March 7, 2025]

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [March 7, 2025]

Released Wednesday, 12th March 2025
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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [March 7, 2025]

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [March 7, 2025]

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [March 7, 2025]

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [March 7, 2025]

Wednesday, 12th March 2025
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Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa


Questions include: ​​Can you talk about lambda calculus? - Any thoughts on numerology? - My current favorite approximation to a constant (e, in this case) is (1 + 9^-4^(7*6))^3^2^85, which uses each of the digits 1–9 only once and is accurate to 18 septillion digits. - Atmospheric noise is about as random as we can get, I think. - How does IBM Watson AI stand against modern LLMs? - Would the LLM have the same reaction time to compete and press the buzzer as humans? - Is it possible someday we may predict the weather years in advance? - Well then, is weather a good random sequence? - How do you calculate wind speed if wind is just a pressure difference? - If the Earth started rotating in reverse, would that have an effect on weather? - What would it take to stabilize the weather (like using wind farms in reverse or controlling ground albedo or atmosphere composition) so that we know it exactly? - Can the Earth's tilt ever be affected? What kind of changes would this cause? - There is a rather large difference between what the ideal climate would be and what changes will mean trouble for us, given our current infrastructure. - Even the weather can't agree on what the weather should be.

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