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valis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 02:16 PM
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Stephen Wolfram: Genius or crackpot?
http://www.wolframscience.com/

Tell me what you think. I read his book "A New Kind of Science" a couple of years ago and I found it interesting. Of course, there was quite a bit of repetitive self-promotion in there...
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 02:25 PM
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1. Wolfram is all about self promotion
He's very bright...but there is nothing particularly "new" about his "new kind of science".
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 02:27 PM
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2. Oh, and another thing
he never properly attributes work to other authors. Infuriating practice.
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valis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 02:29 PM
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4. He's an amazing idea seller... He's got quite an operation going...
Anbody uses mathematica? I used to use it, back in grad school, but I haven't seen the latest...
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 02:28 PM
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3. I like Mathematica.
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valis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 02:33 PM
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5. Oh. OK....
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 02:35 PM
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6. It has *steep* learning curve.
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valis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 02:36 PM
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7. if I may ask, what type of computations do you carry out with it?
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-15-05 02:40 PM
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8. It's for Scientific and Engineering Modeling/Computations.
I used it in a Mathematical Physics class and some in Quantum Mechanics. It's got the 3-D graphics, Differential Operators, Minkowski stuff you name it.
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