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Digital Vintage Sound Modeling Analog Drums with the Wolfram Language and System Modeler

Explore the contents of this article with a free Wolfram System Modeler trial.You may not know what a Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is, but you have most certainly heard it. The TR-808 is a programmable drum machine released by Roland in 1980. The 808 is one of the most iconic drum machines and has been used in a wide variety of music, such as hip-hop, dance, soul, electro, pop and many more.
Leonardo Laguna Ruiz, Software Engineer, System Modeler (MathCore)
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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

The March of Innovation Continues

Just a few weeks ago it was 1/3 of a century since Mathematica 1.0 was released. Today I’m excited to announce the latest results of our long-running R&D pipeline: Version 13 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica. (Yes, the 1, 3 theme—complete with the fact that it’s the 13th of the month today—is amusing, if coincidental.)

It’s 207 days—or a little over 6 months—since we released Version 12.3. And I’m pleased to say that in that short time an impressive amount of R&D has come to fruition: not only a total of 117 completely new functions, but also many hundreds of updated and upgraded functions, several thousand bug fixes and small enhancements, and a host of new ideas to make the system ever easier and smoother to use.

Every day, every week, every month for the past third of a century we’ve been pushing hard to add more to the vast integrated framework that is Mathematica and the Wolfram Language. And now we can see the results of all those individual ideas and projects and pieces of work: a steady drumbeat of innovation sustained now over the course of more than a third of a century:

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From Writer’s Block to the Cat’s Meow with the Wolfram Language

                    

                                                                        

                                
If you’re trying to write a story, be it for National Novel Writing Month or just for fun, you’ll have to face a blank page eventually. The seeds of an idea can help your story grow, blooming into a sweet rose of romance or a carnivorous tale of horror. Without those ideas, all that’s left is a blinking cursor… and frustration.

                            

                                                            

                                
            


                        

                
                    
                    
                        Jesika Brooks, Blog Editor - EduTech, Outreach & Communications                    
                
                            

        

                    
                    

            
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The Winners of the 2021 One-Liner Competition

                    

                                                                        

                                The Wolfram Language is renowned for simplicity and brevity, and nowhere was that more apparent than at the 10th annual One-Liner Competition, held at the Wolfram Virtual Technology Conference. The contest challenges conference attendees to create the best program possible in 128 characters or fewer (the original length limit of a tweet). With prizes awarded for the three best submissions, competition this year was fierce, but the judges, with only minor bloodshed, were able to settle on a slate of awardees.                            

                                                            

                                
            


                        

                
                    
                    
                        Paco Jain, Research Programmer, Wolfram|Alpha Scientific Content                    
                
                            

        

                    

            
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A New Method of Bell Ringing Using Mathematica to Discover Wolf Wrap

                    

                                                                        

                                


    
        
    



English bell ringing (called change ringing) has many connections to mathematics, notably to group theory and Hamiltonian cycles. My wife, Joan Hutchinson, is an ardent bell ringer (having rung in both England and North America), and I knew the basics of this ancient craft. A recent puzzle book by Mark Davies [1] inspired me to bring Mathematica’s integer-linear programming (ILP) capabilities to bear, but I wanted to go beyond puzzles and develop a new ringing method that would be of interest to the bell-ringing community.                            

                                                            

                                
            


                        

                
                    
                    
                        Stan Wagon, Guest Author                    
                
                            

        

                    
                    
                    

            
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Squid Game Dominates Global TV Scene per Wikipedia Trends

                    

                                                                        

                                The new Korean TV series Squid Game has taken the world by storm and become a global breakout phenomenon. Netflix, its distributor, announced, “Squid Game has officially reached 111 million fans—making it our biggest series launch ever!” It’s topped the charts in 90 different countries, including the United States, and has been called “a word-of-mouth global sensation” that’s flooded the news and social media.                            

                                                            

                                
            


                        

                
                    
                    
                        Vitaliy Kaurov, Director of Community Engagement                    
                
                            

        

    

            

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