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0 pointsnxobject1y ago0 comments

Mathematica is open on my computer as we speak (or, rather, now Wolfram.app). The "About" screen indicates "Wolfram 14.2". I have a seat on an site licence.

https://imgur.com/a/WUpSsF8

(If you're interested in what I'm currently doing with it, I'm playing around with Mathematica's neural network library.)

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SubjectToChange1y ago

The "About" screen indicates "Wolfram 14.2"

Mathematica (MMA) and the Wolfram Language (WL) used to be the one and the same. But now a user could be using WL in a web based notebook, through Wolfram Alpha, or even on SystemModeler.

The brand name “Mathematica” isn’t going anywhere, not after nearly forty years. It’s basically marketing being like “how do we communicate updates to WL as not just being updates to MMA?”.

kgwgk1y ago

> The brand name “Mathematica” isn’t going anywhere

But it’s not what it used to be. Now you don’t “run” Mathematica - you “access” it running another program. It’s basically marketing to weaken one brand and strengthen the other.

“Upgrading from Mathematica to Wolfram”

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/UpgradingFro...

FilosofumRex1y ago

you got to be joking, do you play with slide rules and abacus too

NN in Mathematica is a just a toy and artifact of a bygone era. Try HuggingFace https://github.com/huggingface/course

or Karpathy's intro https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT

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