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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. 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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