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Whenever anyone mentions NKS I'm always reminded of Cosma Shalizi's brilliant and hilarious review, 'A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit I

• zackattack 16y ago
  From the review: "[Wolfram] has talent, and once had some promise; he has squandered them". The creation of Mathematica counts as squandering?
  • hga 16y ago
    For "someone who was once a respectable physicist", yes. Especially to the extent he's putting resources into this instead of Mathematica. (Note: the above is from the author's (and others) point of view; I've not read the book and have no first hand opinion on it or Wolfram, besides the law-suit happy thing and such, e.g. I don't use Wolfram Alpha because they own whatever is the output of it, I don't and am restricted in how I can use it.)