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About NKS, granted there's a bunch of self promotion and inflated urgency in there. But I feel like there's a useful work, cataloging in exhaustive detail a lar
by imglorp 7y ago
About NKS, granted there's a bunch of self promotion and inflated urgency in there. But I feel like there's a useful work, cataloging in exhaustive detail a large number of systems and patterns which are built into the number system and nature.
Is there anything actually wrong with NKS aside from the tone?
- JoeSmithson 7y agoI've actually never read NKS but I did read this review of it which has some criticism - http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/ http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/ > "As the saying goes, there is much here that is new and true, but what is true is not new, and what is new is not true; and some of it is even old and false, or at least utterly unsupported." The author seems fairly knowledgeable on the subject of cellular automata. EDIT: I see this has been posted elsewhere in the comments
- riffraff 7y agoI think there is consensus the tone is what's mostly wrong with the book. Amazon seems to have removed it, but "a new kind of review"[0] was absolutely hilarious and kind of accurate :) [0] http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_humor.html http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_humor.html 3rd from the top