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I am struggling to understand what is new here - other than the word ruliad - which to me seems to similar to what we have in theoretical computer science when
by chvid 8mo ago
I am struggling to understand what is new here - other than the word ruliad - which to me seems to similar to what we have in theoretical computer science when we talk about languages, sentences, and grammars.
- elric 8mo agoIt's just Wolfram explaining how he likes stuying things that can be describe by simple rules and how complexity can emerge in spite of (or because of?) the seeming simplicity of those rules. He came up with a word for it, and while I think "ruliology" sounds a bit silly, it does say what's on the tin.
- chvid 8mo agoTo me it sounds like this stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy But maybe it is more like fractals and emerging complex systems?
- TuringTest 8mo agoThe word he's looking for is "formal system". For some reason he doesn't like doing mathematical demonstrations so he shuns the practice of doing them, and invented a new word to describe that way of using formal systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_system