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Wolfram was a child prodigy, became successful businessman and created Mathematica. He just desperately wants to be more. What is left of him as a scientist is
by nabla9 4y ago
Wolfram was a child prodigy, became successful businessman and created Mathematica. He just desperately wants to be more.
What is left of him as a scientist is just clever crank and eternal wannabe. All his books and projects in the last 20 years, from "A new kind of science" onward are just obfuscating, hand-waving and playing with "digital mud" getting nowhere.
Excellent visualizations of overly complex things hide the fact that he finds no deep new science or explanations.
- paulpauper 4y agoWhat is left of him as a scientist is just clever crank and eternal wannabe. All his books and projects in the last 20 years, from "A new kind of science" onward are just obfuscating, hand-waving and playing with "digital mud" getting nowhere. Yeah I am as unimpressed by his automata theory now as I was 20 years ago.