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A New, Kind of, Science
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Yeah this book is useless.
It’s cellular automata all the way down!
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I have a copy. I tried to read it, twice.
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Wolfram is pretty much full of shit.
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I mean “undecidability” has been around since the 30s and “irreducibility” has been an idea since the mid 70s. There is little useful to be said about science hangers-on who try to force their own personal paradigm shifts.
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open free? no - alpha is now a subscription service… if you want PRO, and functionality
i get it, ya gotta pay for services, but…
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Well I tried at least three times, so there, smarty pants. 
I actually liked the point he was making, and would call the book an exploration of how reasoning can best be modeled and conveyed in notation and why mathematics is only a subset of the optimal conceivable notations.
But Wolfram makes me look like the soul of brevity, you know? It’s like reading Fraser’s unexpurgated Golden Bough… dude, I get it, next point please!
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I’m imagining the old “coffe talk” sketch on SNL… “a new kind of science is neither new, nor science… discuss!”
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One of my favourite reviews of anything ever:
A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity
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