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Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:13:10 UTC No. 16098039
Stephen Wolfram is more than double smart the smartest person on /sci/. Thoughts on his career, work, Mathematica, theories on space-time, books in print?
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:14:01 UTC No. 16098041
>>16098039
buy an ad, baldie
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:16:08 UTC No. 16098045
>>16098041
this is a forward to a discussion, ok, I'll give a video so you familiarize yourself with his theories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-R
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:17:09 UTC No. 16098048
>>16098039
Wolfy's writing style is incomprehensible and boring, but she puts a lot of nice pictures in her books and makes a lot of Computer Experiments. I think I own a copy of everything she has ever published and I just look at the drawings over and over.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:22:07 UTC No. 16098055
>>16098054
holy shit, I have that sit to stand desk monitor platform.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:24:44 UTC No. 16098059
>>16098045
>1hour30minutes
ok, I'll listen to it on the bus to the supermarket
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:35:18 UTC No. 16098067
>>16098059
try not to mind the ads. its a really great discussion.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:16:16 UTC No. 16098139
I tried to read his blog but it sounds like boring pseud midwittery. I mean there are enough other people covering a broad range of physical and mathematical concepts in depth while being entertaining. But Wolfram on the other hand just endlessly repeats himself and only ever talks about cellular automata. He certainly isn't dumb but he's definitely wasting his IQ.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:46:28 UTC No. 16098173
>>16098139
Yeah, he obviously isn't dumb. But for some reason computer scienctists, and programmers in general have an extremely high ego. They think since they've mastered some dumb language, write algorithms that they've somehow unlocked the secrets of the universe. This gives gives them the idea that they have both the street cred and understanding in being able to make breakthroughs in every other field, like mathematics, physics, or even philosophy or psychology etc.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:48:32 UTC No. 16098177
>>16098173
listen to the talk, its very high level paradigm breaking.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:49:03 UTC No. 16098179
>>16098177
>its very high level paradigm breaking.
Meaningless buzzword, go to sleep Stephen.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:56:04 UTC No. 16098189
>>16098179
not buzzwords, accurate identification of how we fit into the logic of space-time. Space-time is a false construct of our minds only.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:12:14 UTC No. 16098208
>>16098173
>that they've somehow unlocked the secrets of the universe
Nah that's mathematicians who take their maths models of physics and assume them to be the source code of the universe and extrapolatable to extremes.
Examples being
>Singularities exist in nature because our current models say so!
>The big bang came from nothing because our current models can't go further back!
>Space is non-discrete because our current models say it is
>Virtual particles being real because there's a math model that uses them
Despite current models having made some very blatant wrong predictions, demoting them from universe code to mere approximation.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:16:11 UTC No. 16098210
His premise of everything being computable is BS. He himself has to admit this when talking about QM but it's obvious he doesn't really want to accept it.
Cult of Passion at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:35:08 UTC No. 16098237
>>16098039
>>16095718
>Stephen Wolfram is more than double smart the smartest person on /sci/.
Cult of Passion at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:36:18 UTC No. 16098239
>>16098039
His pupil is the one to keep an eye on.
Stephan is too locked into specific world
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:43:51 UTC No. 16098249
>>16098239
he looks like your classic poindexter
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:44:53 UTC No. 16098251
>>16098249
>poindexter
(((poindexter)))
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:46:28 UTC No. 16098252
>>16098039
there should be a piss stain edit of this picture
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:47:04 UTC No. 16098254
>>16098252
sounds like something you are familiar with?
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:48:26 UTC No. 16098257
>>16098252
Done.
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:55:22 UTC No. 16098265
>>16098257
creeps
Anonymous at Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:59:24 UTC No. 16098376
>>16098210
There is an explanation for QM tho
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:52:06 UTC No. 16098553
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:01:06 UTC No. 16098568
>>16098553
amazing how people love to make fun of their intellectual upper classmen
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:04:02 UTC No. 16098573
>>16098568
You should pee your pants less often, Stephen.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:07:08 UTC No. 16098576
>>16098252
but anon, he has fully saturated his pants in that picture
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:36:36 UTC No. 16098607
>>16098252
>>16098576
The truth is Wolfram has a fully loaded diaper on 24/7. He's too busy at his standing desk inventing new Physics and calculating graph transformations to use the bathroom, hence why his diaper is always fully soaked/loaded with shit. He used to just piss his pants on the regular, but the higher ups at Wolfram Research put a stop to it when they had to smell him when he occasionally comes into the office.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:43:50 UTC No. 16098620
>>16098607
why are you saying these things?
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:51:41 UTC No. 16098631
>>16098620
It's called a joke Wolfram, lighten up
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 02:24:28 UTC No. 16098676
>>16098039
He does look pretty double smart
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 02:27:30 UTC No. 16098679
>>16098239
>describing a graph word by word instead of just showing it
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 02:42:17 UTC No. 16098696
>>16098631
its mean 3rd grade level
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:08:23 UTC No. 16098726
>>16098691
It's funny, a mathematician is the one who proved his rule 110 was universal, and he did everything in his power legally to try to stop him. The meme about a Jew being sue happy is real.
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:11:01 UTC No. 16098730
>>16098726
*overly litigious Jew
Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:23:49 UTC No. 16099642
>>16098765
And also space is discrete
🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:09:13 UTC No. 16099816
>oy vey i totally know everything about the entire universe!!!
>i'm smarter than god or something!!!
>no, this is not a mentally insane grandiose delusion
>i really do know everything about the entire universe!!!
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:05:37 UTC No. 16100528
>>16099816
Strawman
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:10:00 UTC No. 16100532
>>16098039
his simulation is fake and gay
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:46:46 UTC No. 16100964
His theory of everything is the most stupid and useless piece of crap I've ever read. Imagine wasting your time and brainpower to build whatever the fuck that thing is supposed to be.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:15:35 UTC No. 16100996
>>16100964
You are too stupid to criticize him.
Cult of Passion at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:17:56 UTC No. 16100998
>>16100996
He's largely correct though, from a true Physicist's perspective. Computational Physics has a point and a many Applications, but it can be used for things youre not thinking about, other fields you didnt think could be connencted.
Anonymous at Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:00:49 UTC No. 16101045
I don't know a single thing about him but I use the .wa command on irc/matrix to shitpost with my friends so he's ok in my books.