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Surprised no one has said "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram. While not quite a new kind of science, it is all about cellular automata. http://www.wolf
by mjfl 10y ago
Surprised no one has said "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram. While not quite a new kind of science, it is all about cellular automata.
http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html
- wool_gather 10y agoANKOS was in fact mentioned already, a couple of hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11982034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11982034
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- api 10y agoI second the recommendation with the caveat that you can only get through it if you can stand his narcissism. It's really a tragedy because there really are brilliant ideas in there. It's just that Wolfram did not single handedly invent them all. I would also recommend the Artificial Life conference proceedings and journals.
- dnautics 10y agoI don't think he quite claims that he single handedly invented them all, but yes, Wolfram's style is pointedly awful. I'm surprised I was open-minded enough to get to the good parts of the book... The surprising existence of the cone-shell pattern alone made it worth it.
- designtofly 10y agoAlthough Shalizi has his own biases and is pretty opinionated, his review of "A New Kind of Science" is quite interesting and is worth considering: http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/ http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/