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Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo

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"Log in to watch"

Closed the tab.

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.

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

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

Closed the tab.

While you may feel good about it, you ended up loosing the opportunity to learn something.

Just FYI, some of us don't have flash installed to save battery life, not because we want to feel good...

All major browsers and IE9+ support the video tag[0], there's no excuse to use flash for a video player nowadays

[0]: http://caniuse.com/#search=video

Lots of people are stuck on IE8, specially those on enterprise contexts.

I rather access information than complain how it is made available.

I was using an iOS device at this point, so it was actually impossible for me to watch.

We have mobile streaming on the roadmap. You can upvote it. http://roadmap.livecoding.tv/

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

This is Michael from Livecoding.tv

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

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, good point!

Agreed.

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.

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

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!

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

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

Yeah, he did a good job!

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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