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What does that have to do with anything?
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I think that might just be a (perfectly reasonable) desire for privacy... he is a fairly public figure, after all.
Who Was Ramanujan?
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What does that have to do with anything?
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Are you implying that he wrote his own Wikipedia page?
In a 1997 article in Technology Review, the author said that Wolfram politely deflected personal questions about his wife and newborn child out of privacy concerns prompted by the Unabomber case.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Are you implying that he wrote his own Wikipedia page? In a 1997 article in Technology Review, the author said that Wolfram politely deflected personal questions about his wife and newborn child out of privacy concerns prompted by the Unabomber case.
thanks.
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#14Mixed feelings about this article: 1. A fine easy read about Ramanujan and Hardy. It was well-summarized and nicely written, with excellent pictures that I had not seen before. 2. A disgusting vein of self-promotion runs throughout the article. Much has been said about Stephan Wolfram's occasionally self-centered behavior, and many of his writings have a self-aggrandizing tone to them. Thus, I was pleasantly surprise…
I can barely tolerate anything he writes. It is hard to understand how a person could reach his position without learning how to express himself tastefully.
Funny to read this after reading the Claude Shannon profile posted a few hours ago [1]. An actual giant of 20th century mathematics, and so humble.
[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-t...
Re: Who Was Ramanujan?
#15Mixed feelings about this article: 1. A fine easy read about Ramanujan and Hardy. It was well-summarized and nicely written, with excellent pictures that I had not seen before. 2. A disgusting vein of self-promotion runs throughout the article. Much has been said about Stephan Wolfram's occasionally self-centered behavior, and many of his writings have a self-aggrandizing tone to them. Thus, I was pleasantly surprise…
I can barely tolerate anything he writes. It is hard to understand how a person could reach his position without learning how to express himself tastefully. Funny to read this after reading the Claude Shannon profile posted a few hours ago [1]. An actual giant of 20th century mathematics, and so humble. [1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-t...
It is hard to understand, indeed. Wolfram is clearly extremely accomplished by all standards. We all know this. Why in the world does he pump all his written work with insufferable self-promotion? Anyone in a position to make good use of Mathematica has heard of it. I haven't met anyone who doesn't know about WolframAlpha, and I've taught mathematics to high-schoolers.
Moreover, it should be obvious to Wolfram that his incessant self-promotion greatly reduces the probability that a reader will recommend his writing to their friends -- if Wolfram's goal is to promote his software, research, or even just himself, then he's clearly going about it in a ham-fisted way.
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#16I just knew Wolfram was going to draw parallels. Such an arse.
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#17The (sadly all too predictable) comments about Wolfram's self-promotion and product placement give me an idea.
Someone should create a blog called "Wolfram minus Wolfram" (in the vein of the excellent "Garfield minus Garfield") which exists solely to republish Wolfram's (often very interesting) writings, minus the references to his own products and his own past achievements. I think it would be popular.
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#18A very nice article.
Personally I'm not bothered by the "self-promotion" others perceive in Wolfram's posts. The criticism in the comments here are all very repetitive and tiresome. I presume many read anything written by Wolfram with the hope of finding something they can point out as self-promotion ;)
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#2050% of the text is the fascinating story of Ramanujan. Unfortunately, the other 50% is a series of shameless product placements for the author's software and boasts about the author's personal and intellectual accomplishments. The story, the boasts, and the ads are all mixed together, so reading the thing all the way to the end was seriously painful.
True. Maybe, skimming through the article without bothering about the hyperlinks would be so much better. He went to the extent of hyperlinking the words `Madras` and `Sanskrit` to their WolframAlfa search links :/
So you mean google employees should put bing links in their blog posts rather than google links?