This Thursday, 8 October, at 6 PM EDT, the Wolfram Technology Conference Live Coding Challenge. As in years past, I will be your genial co-host, along with Philip Maymin –

It’s a total blast to watch people competitively code, and really impressive to see how the Wolfram Language / Mathematica makes these types of problems straight forward to solve economically. Tune in at twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram to watch and vote for the winners or Youtube.com/user/WolframResearch if you just want to watch passively and don’t want the responsibility. (Watch and vote even if you have no idea what’s going on —