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Does anyone remember his book "A New Kind of Science" which was a really discredited, unoriginal, hack-fraudish, non-scientifically vetted essay on cellular aut
by thrillgore 8y ago
Does anyone remember his book "A New Kind of Science" which was a really discredited, unoriginal, hack-fraudish, non-scientifically vetted essay on cellular automata?
- atemerev 8y agoI own the book, and I enjoyed at least some parts of it. Primitive cellular automata classification also had some scientific merit, and now widely cited. It could be shorter and/or probably better structured as a series of blog posts, but it doesn’t deserve such vitriol, in my opinion.
- titanomachy 8y agoThis blog post isn't by Stephen Wolfram, it's Jon McLoone.
- matt4077 8y agoStill better than anything you or I will ever write.
- WkndTriathlete 8y agoAre you sure he wrote it? Rumor has it that Wolfram had his grad students/postdocs write Mathematica and is essentially trampling on their backs making money off of it now.
- AnaniasAnanas 8y agoWolfram is not some sort of demigod.
- knbknb 8y agoI remember this book + I own it. It is a very good book but way over my head. (Additionally, it serves well as a doorstop). Still I admire the amount of diligence and energy that went into this. Wolfram spent several years _obsessed_ with this stuff. See his 2012 blogpost about his "quantified self" recordings: https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/ https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analyti... Maybe A New Kind of Science will create a surge sometime (just like Neural Networks were declared dead for several years, then Deep Learning came along and they took off)