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Wednesday, June 9, 2021
CONTINUITY: From 1914—A Self-Playing Violin
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THE HAPPENING WORLD: NASA'a Juno Orbiter Images a Crater Chain on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede
The new @NASAJuno image of Ganymede includes a view of Enki Catena, a 161-km-long chain of craters formed when an incoming comet broke apart and struck the moon's surface in succession, a la Shoemaker-Levy 9. Previously imaged in 1997 by Galileo! https://t.co/LxXF8BICAA pic.twitter.com/Xo1WYASbUM
— Jason Major (@JPMajor) June 8, 2021
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TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: Two New Venus Missions—What Are the Science Goals?
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CONTEXT: Does the S Combinator Support Universal Computation? A US$20,000 Challenge
In the continuing story of PCE and the frontier of computation universality ... on the centenary of combinators (12/7/20) I suggested S alone might support universality. Now we're offering a $20k prize to find out if it's true...https://t.co/CBJMyHQPyG pic.twitter.com/IWAWIZwWIJ
— Stephen Wolfram (@stephen_wolfram) June 8, 2021
Related, scheduled for publication on 2021-06-17:
About to publish: "Combinators: A Centennial View "... the result of my burst of scientific & historical research on a subject I've very long been curious about ... and that's turning out to have some quite unexpected implications https://t.co/ZfYlnrferC pic.twitter.com/D00MfbhyGS
— Stephen Wolfram (@stephen_wolfram) June 8, 2021
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