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a111: Logged on 2014-07-07 11:21 mircea_popescu: ay by the industries of Catalonia and the Basque Country. For Spain to be made healthy, they have to be destroyed. The German Chief of Staff
Wolfram von Richthofen listened thunderstruck then recited to Mola all the reasons why it was madness to destroy a country’s industrial base, telling him that ‘I have never in my life heard such idiocy’
mircea_popescu: gotta to something with aqll the
wolfram they're not using for proper lightbulbs anymore.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-03 23:09 asciilifeform: and if you can achieve it in a ~discrete~ system, you can get
wolfram to drink himself to death, by properly demonstrating 'cellular physics' (tm) (r) where he failed.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the fiat world has burned these poor people so consistently (see the plouffe thing recently discussed, see the notorious
wolfram thing etc) it's just the default expectation. and then ~bitcoin~ is the scam.
adlai defers to an oft-repeated meniism: "if you care about friendly AI, donate to stephen
wolfram" (or was it that other fanfic author?)
ascii_butugychag: if mircea_popescu's ego cock at least fits on a cable spool, of the kind used to carry fiber on a truck,
wolfram's - only fits in the bilge of a 1890s cable-laying steamer
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:27:51; mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from
Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.
wolfram.com/Fractal.html A fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales. The object need not exhibit exactly the same structure ..."
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:28:45; mircea_popescu: the geometric notion of the point, and the geometric notion of a line, and the geometric notion of a plane, and the geometric notion of
wolfram's mother impaled on a triple cheeseburger ALL SATISFY THIS DEFINITION
phf: mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from
Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.
wolfram.com/Fractal.html A fractal is an object or quantity that displays " <<
wolfram's "new kind of science" is all about "this one thing i generated kind of looks like this complicated process, maybe they are related? i feel like they are!"
mircea_popescu: the geometric notion of the point, and the geometric notion of a line, and the geometric notion of a plane, and the geometric notion of
wolfram's mother impaled on a triple cheeseburger ALL SATISFY THIS DEFINITION
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from
Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.
wolfram.com/Fractal.html A fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales. The object need not exhibit exactly the same structure ..."
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 09-04-2015 21:17:14; ascii_field:
wolfram is sui generis. owns a tame publisher, for instance
ascii_field: to my great shame, i pumped thousands and thousands of usd into
wolfram's pockets.
ascii_field:
wolfram is sui generis. owns a tame publisher, for instance
☟︎ ascii_field: '
Wolfram, for his part, responded by suing or threatening to sue Cook (now a penniless graduate student in neuroscience), the conference organizers, the publishers of the proceedings, etc. '
ascii_field: 'The real problem with this result, however, is that it is not
Wolfram's. He didn't invent cyclic tag systems, and he didn't come up with the incredibly intricate construction needed to implement them in Rule 110. This was done rather by one Matthew Cook, while working in
Wolfram's employ under a contract with some truly remarkable provisions about intellectual property. In short,
Wolfram got to control not only when and
ben_vulpes:
wolfram worked with feynman at Thinking Machines?!
assbot: Turmite -- from
Wolfram MathWorld
assbot: Langton's Ant -- from
Wolfram MathWorld
assbot: Church-Turing Thesis -- from
Wolfram MathWorld
decimation: zooming out further, probably more than 90% of the revenue for
wolfram comes from usg
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: So
Wolfram is an event caterer
assbot: Stephen
Wolfram, A New Kind of Science
assbot: "Inside the
Wolfram Language" by Stephen
Wolfram - YouTube
MolokoDesk: yeah, i'm scraping
wolfram alpha, but if you pay them there's an API that is somewhat more flexible.
assbot: Spheroid -- from
Wolfram MathWorld
decimation: I would note that Mr.
Wolfram & co. are slowly migrating Mathmatica to be "pay us to use
Wolfram Alpha in the cloud"
assbot: Unqualified Reservations:
Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces
assbot: Benford's Law -- from
Wolfram MathWorld
mircea_popescu: ay by the industries of Catalonia and the Basque Country. For Spain to be made healthy, they have to be destroyed. The German Chief of Staff
Wolfram von Richthofen listened thunderstruck then recited to Mola all the reasons why it was madness to destroy a country’s industrial base, telling him that ‘I have never in my life heard such idiocy’
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "This brings me to the core of what I dislike about
Wolfram's book. It is going to set the field back by years. On the one hand, scientists in other fields are going to think we're all crackpots like him. On the other hand, we're going to be deluged, again, with people who fall for this kind of nonsense. I expect to have to waste a lot of time in the next few years de-programming students who'll have read A New Kind of