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Stephen Wolfram: Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?

Stephen Wolfram: Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work?A fascinating and long blog entry on Wolfram’s work consulting on physics and aliens for the movie Arrival. Physics, linguistics, xenoethnography, comparing developing software to making movies, oh my!

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  • January 7, 2017 at 11:07
    in Language, Duly noted

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