History of Science and Technology Q&A for Kids and Others (February 10, 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast - A podcast by Wolfram Research - Fridays

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Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Any stories about your work for Thinking Machines? - ​c/c++ have # omp parallel for loop parallelization, but there's nothing quite for distributed variable storage - Have you seen those Combinator Graph reduction Machines? - Have you read "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", "What Do Care What Other People Think?" and/or "Tuva or Bust!"? - nowadays every modern computer has a connection machine, in the form of a GPU - f course Stephen knows the person who started the internet archive haha! - Were there applications for the connection machine which used the interconnections? I think e.g. fluid dynamic is easy to implement with the vector computation of GPUs, only local neighbors