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Yea he is obviously smart getting his doctorate at a young age and the prestigious MacArthur grant, as well as making some important contributions to the CA fie
by throwaway7645 9y ago
Yea he is obviously smart getting his doctorate at a young age and the prestigious MacArthur grant, as well as making some important contributions to the CA field, but his best attribute might be being a businessman making millions selling a good product. Part of that involves self promotion, but it does make me uncomfortable how extreme he can get with it (I'm thinking his NKS book). Cellular automata are cool, but I'm not seeing the explosion in the field and how they're being used for everything like he keeps saying (hopefully someone on here can confirm/deny this who is active in that area).
- imglorp 9y agoI'm curious what the business play might be for CA in his case. Maybe a few NKS and Mathematica sales, but those are for the curious, because it's it's just interesting stuff that might have an application in a few places.
- throwaway7645 9y agoI think it's just something that catches the press and gets publicity. Then someone looks at their products and maybe likes what they see(Mathematica is pretty neat). Kinda like a foot in the door. That or Wolfram really does feel that automata are extremely important.