Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo

https://www.livecoding.tv/stephen_wolfram

by akharris • 11 years ago

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GuiA• 11 years ago

"Log in to watch"

Closed the tab.

noobermin2• 11 years ago

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.

seanmcdirmid• 11 years ago

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

rndn2• 11 years ago

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

Closed the tab.

noobermin2• 11 years ago

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

DrMJG_HN7• 11 years ago

This is Michael from Livecoding.tv

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

treelovinhippie• 11 years ago

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.

DrMJG_HN7• 11 years ago

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.

drdeca• 11 years ago

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.

DrMJG_HN7• 11 years ago

Yeah, good point!

supercoder• 11 years ago

Agreed.

batou• 11 years ago

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.

brobdingnagian• 11 years ago

"Um, Um, Um, Um" - not very entertaining.

peterayemi• 11 years ago

Watching the creator of a programming language program in it is a revealing experience. Stephen Wolfram is genius level smart.

jordigh• 11 years ago

He's not the sole creator. He just managed to sue into submission all of his coauthors.

DrMJG_HN7• 11 years ago

Yeah, he did a good job!

callil• 11 years ago

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!

DrMJG_HN7• 11 years ago

Yeah, was a fun show and Wolfram explained things well. Was nice to see such him in action.

jtchang• 11 years ago

What a shitty experience. See stream...log in to watch...give up facebook connect email...no stream. AHHHHHHH

DrMJG_HN7• 11 years ago

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: michael@livecoding.tv

Thanks!

jkldotio• 11 years ago

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.

Synaesthesia• 11 years ago

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.

Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo

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