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Wolfram at his best

• syngrog66 10y ago
  if you like the OA, and you'd like to read something in a similar spirit, a bit like Sol Golomb meets Stephen Wolfram meets Richard Feynman and a touch of The Princess Bride, then try a taste of the fictional Professor Heinrich von Hexenhammer, most recently of Galaxy G: https://www.reddit.com/r/DSPR/comments/1m4zrl/when_heinrich_met_betty_a_scene_from_book_2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DSPR/comments/1m4zrl/when_heinrich_... https://www.reddit.com/r/DSPR/comments/25ncg0/dspr_lightning_and_hearts_scene_from_book_3/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DSPR/comments/25ncg0/dspr_lightning...
  • goldenkey 10y ago
    Quite humorous the way some um..? gestures are just inserted mid dialogue for effect.. I doubt even Wolfram would be that bold :-)
    • syngrog66 10y ago
      thank you! I think? ha yes it was meant to be a comedy. The Professor Heinrich von Hexenhammer character is a kind of loving homage to Mad Scientists in general. and to the most famous (or at least the most eccentric) physicists and mathematicians. Feynman meets Erdos meets Einstein meets Wolfram etc. except a little more fun and creative for entertainment value. :-P I respect Wolfram's talents and accomplishments (esp Mathematica), but every time I come across artifacts of his personality quirks again, like in this Golomb post above, it does make me remember all the stereotypical anti-patterns of the Mad Scientist.
• russellbeattie 10y ago
  I'm consistently amazed by his blog. Wolfram's posts are always so huge and so detailed. I'm a decent writer (or so I thought), but it would take me weeks to write that post, even if I understood all the math, which I don't. It's insane how prolific he is.
  • GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
    Hasn't he used uncredited ghosts in the past?