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What, ultimately, did Wolfram do in these five most productive years? Can it be said in a sentence, or a paragraph? I always find it interesting when someone c
by getnormality 2y ago
What, ultimately, did Wolfram do in these five most productive years? Can it be said in a sentence, or a paragraph?
I always find it interesting when someone claims to have something to say, but can't seem to say it at a short enough length to be held entirely in the human mind.
It's like Bob says he has a beautiful sculpture to show me, but when I ask to see it, he sends me truckload after truckload of modeling clay. The sculpture is constituted from this material, Bob tells me.
Okay, I say, but it seems like you're asking me to do an awful lot of work here, and I don't know you enough to be confident that the effort would be well-spent. So could you maybe show me a complete, smaller scale model, with a bit less detail, that gives me the general idea of what's so special and new about what you've made?
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- shepherdjerred 2y agoDoesn't the picture at the top give a good summary?
- fsflover 2y agoNo. "I published XX books and YYY articles" doesn't tell me anything about the actual value. Some authors I heard publish a 3-digit-number articles per year...
- mlyle 2y ago> What, ultimately, did Wolfram do in these five most productive years? Can it be said in a sentence, or a paragraph? He shipped a lot of software, wrote a lot of books and papers, did a lot of media, and substantially advanced his passion projects. It's unclear how much of the last stuff will pan out and advance human knowledge, but it was still done.
- tim333 2y agoHe did a laws of physics thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Wolfram_Physics_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Wolfram_Physic... though "Physicists are generally unimpressed." (wikipedia)