Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [January 7, 2022]

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: Could you build a reverse natural language understanding engine? One that would take in Wolfram Language / JavaScript / Python and output natural language explaining what the code is doing? - ​Dr. Wolfram, any suggestion on what problems/case work to use for introductory programming? - Why is is harder to compute integrals rather than derivatives? - Are there any major changes to the design, architecture, or low level code of computers that are now standardized that you would change if you could? - Are there laws governing the development of human history? - Any tricks for reading textbooks that maximize the understanding of the material?

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Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of nearly four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions and innovations in science, technology and business. On his podcast, Stephen discusses topics ranging from the history of science to the future of civilization and ethics of AI.