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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. What language? by dlur · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If "GOD" is a software engineer, what language does he use?

    I'm guessing he started out with COBOL due to the stability of the world, but around the time the dinosaurs got nuked he was persuaded to switch to Visual BASIC by Satan(last name Gates) and ever since we've had nothing but one general protection fault after another.

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  2. 1090? by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Redundant

    From the artical:

    Just last week, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Seth Lloyd published a paper in Physical Review Letters estimating how many calculations the universe could have performed since the Big Bang -- 10120 operations on 1090 bits of data, putting the mightiest

    Hrm, think they meant 10^120 and 10^90 there. Even the 4004 could handle that :P

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