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Wolfram talking about Wolfram for 14,000 words. The most Wolfram thing imaginable. Wolfram!
by adwhit 8y ago
Wolfram talking about Wolfram for 14,000 words. The most Wolfram thing imaginable. Wolfram!
- Jerry2 8y agoReminded me of this classic: >A group of friends and I used to do dramatic readings of the About the Author text from the Mathematica Book, which begins thusly: >About the Author >Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today. >The guy wrote that himself. >Wait, while searching for that, I see he updated it slightly in later versions: >About the Author >Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, and a well-known scientist. He is widely regarded as the most important innovator in technical computing today, as well as one of the world's most original research scientists. >I guess the original didn't fully express the boundless expanse of his awesomeness. >"Does anyone want to bet as to which will gain self-awareness first: Wolfram Alpha or Wolfram, Stephen?" http://chrishecker.com/Kurt_G%C3%B6del_is_Laughing_His_Ass_Off_Right_Now http://chrishecker.com/Kurt_G%C3%B6del_is_Laughing_His_Ass_O...
- prepend 8y agoHe may have the data to make the argument. I suppose if anyone wanted to measure such things which really shouldn’t be measured, I bet Wolfram has a compelling case.
- gcbw2 8y agoThanks for sharing this. Helped me understand what i was reading before. It honestly took me a while to realize the article wasn't an April fools post! I am still upvoting the submission for its comedic value.
- strikelaserclaw 8y agolol, i was gonna say the same thing.
- bitwize 8y agoFor the longest time I thought Sheldon Cooper was supposed to be a pisstake of Wolfram, specifically.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't take HN threads on MPTs (Most Predictable Tangent). They're always the same, therefore tedious, therefore off topic here. Those who haven't had enough can find their fill at https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/.
- ballooney 8y agoPlease do and ignore dang. It’s important to remind people.
- adwhit 8y agoInteresting how when it was top-voted comment it read more as the light-hearted poking of fun which I intended (I really have no problem with Wolfram, I think he's funny). But now it has been demoted to the bottom of the thread it has started getting lots of downvotes and somehow reads (even to me) as being mean and bitter. Curious example of how the thread position/reaction of others really primes how we receive a comment.
- ballooney 8y agoun-self-aware self belief is a commodity to exploit for the people who pay dang, just like our continued engagement with this forum. There is commercial value in engineering the tone of the discussion, artificially or otherwise. Your perception is the desired outcome.
- dang 8y agoI thought your comment was funny too. But alas we have tons of experience with Wolfram threads collapsing into nothing more than "wolfram wolfram wolfram" in an outraged mirroring of the very thing they're criticizing. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=by:dang%20wolfram https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... It's just another black hole, and one of the most trivial. And since (Wolfram being Wolfram) there are also interesting things in the submission to discuss, that's what we should focus on.