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There is plenty to admire in the book but Wolfram's self-aggrandizing and complete lack of protocol wrt credit to others in the field is terribly off-putting.
by danbmil99 16y ago
There is plenty to admire in the book but Wolfram's self-aggrandizing and complete lack of protocol wrt credit to others in the field is terribly off-putting. I think this book could have had far more impact if he had just bothered to tone down his ego and be charitable about prior work (whether or not he developed certain ideas independently; that doesn't excuse you from being honest about who did the work first)
- mithaler 16y agoOn that note, here's one well-written but scathing review by a UMichigan professor who goes into that among other things: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/ http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/
- jacobolus 16y agoHilarious: “I'd have paid a lot to see Wolfram and Jacques Derrida go one-on-one.” Cosma Shalizi is a gem.