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I think his tendency to elevate himself to the exclusion of others around him leads to a trend where his and his company's work exists in a silo that's somewhat
by Centigonal 2y ago
I think his tendency to elevate himself to the exclusion of others around him leads to a trend where his and his company's work exists in a silo that's somewhat disconnected from the rest of computing and science. The vanity might be trapping him in a local maximum.
- sockaddr 2y agoThis is the best description I’ve seen of how I view his work. It’s interesting but it’s hard to point to cases in the wild where his stuff is actually used. Never once in my career have any of his tools been brought up in more than a “oh that’s cool” context. I do like the idea of wolfram alpha being packaged and usable by intelligent agents as a sort of mental tool plugin. That would be cool.