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Wolframania

Posted by michael on from the making-a-splash dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "The New York Times has had a couple of articles about Stephen Wolfram in the last couple of weeks. Is he self-aggrandizing or brilliant? Or both? And is God a software engineer?" I thought our reader-contributed review of ANKOS was quite good.

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  1. SW's 256 autometa by ajs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He uses a classification of 256 particular 2D autometa for a lot of the examples in the book that's kind of interesting. I took the time to write some code for it to explore the various permutations. It's CGI-based and it generates a png or jpeg image, so just throw it in your cgi-bin and check it out. The comments list the various options you can send it.

  2. Re:Praise, either way... by fatphil · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "It's too bad that more science isn't delivered this way."

    Written by S. Wolfram,
    Peer reviewed by noone,
    Edited by S. Wolfram,
    Published by S. Wolfram's company.

    That's not the best route for 'science' to take in its delivery.

    Having said that, I think one comment that seems to be applicable is the ancient "both new and interesting; that which is interesting isn't new, and that which is new isn't interesting" style quote. He's very bad ad giving credit to those who did so much before he was even in nappies.

    FP.

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