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Decent read but I vastly prefer W. Daniel Hillis' "Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine" as it is actually more about Feynman (in his later years, around
by georgemcbay 13y ago
Decent read but I vastly prefer W. Daniel Hillis' "Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine" as it is actually more about Feynman (in his later years, around the same time period as Wolfram's piece) rather than using him as a jumping off point to remind everyone of how smart the guy writing the essay is.
http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/ http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
- sillysaurus2 13y agoThe guy who wrote the essay is smart.
- georgemcbay 13y agoThe guys who wrote both essays are smart. But one of them never misses an opportunity to obnoxiously shove this fact in his reader's face at least three times per page of text using A New Kind of Bragging.
- baddox 13y agoDid you read the article, or did you just say what you think people are supposed to say about anything Wolfram writes?
- georgemcbay 13y agoI actually read the article but wasn't too surprised when he continually inserted what I would consider too much of himself into it. It doesn't directly bother me that Wolfram is an egotist, I don't have to deal with him on a personal level, so why should I care? But he fancies himself a writer (among other things) and I do think his constant need to insert himself and his past accomplishments continually (even when his subject is ostensibly something else) detracts a great deal from his writing and thus it is fair game to call him out for it.
- eruditely 13y agoI don't think we read the same article, obviously you are forcing what you have decided his identity is and are trying to fit it into the article. Just like how people see giraffes in clouds when they are just clouds.
- willvarfar 13y agoWell, it was very much about his relationship with Feynman, rather than Feynman in a vacuum. Maybe Wolfram writes this as much for himself as for you?