We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
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We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
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Re: We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
#2It's kind of sad for me. I read and read but could not get the gist of the institute. Can someone write a summary?
Re: We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
#3This guy is full-on crank at this point. His newer kind of science is going to revolutionize everything, I’m sure.
> We want to use our new paradigm to basically rewrite the foundations of several important fields of science. As with the Physics Project there’ll no doubt be tremendous synergy with existing approaches and the communities around them.
Cellular automatons are going to do all of this?
Re: We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
#4This guy is full-on crank at this point. His newer kind of science is going to revolutionize everything, I’m sure. > We want to use our new paradigm to basically rewrite the foundations of several important fields of science. As with the Physics Project there’ll no doubt be tremendous synergy with existing approaches and the communities around them. Cellular automatons are going to do all of this?
Let's not mention the questionable ego driven naming scheme for the place.
Re: We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
#5This guy is full-on crank at this point. His newer kind of science is going to revolutionize everything, I’m sure. > We want to use our new paradigm to basically rewrite the foundations of several important fields of science. As with the Physics Project there’ll no doubt be tremendous synergy with existing approaches and the communities around them. Cellular automatons are going to do all of this?
I saw Wolfram give a live talk after launching his big ass book on cellular automata being the foundation of all things. It seemed far fetched and I don’t think anyone outside of his egosphere takes the concept seriously. Let alone understands it.
Re: We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
#6It's kind of sad for me. I read and read but could not get the gist of the institute. Can someone write a summary?
If you scroll down a bit, I think the 26th paragraph comes closest to lucidity:
- "What will the Wolfram Institute be like? There’ll be a leadership core, which, yes, I’m signing up to head. But the main meat of the institute will be a collection of researchers and fellows, working on particular, managed projects—together with students at multiple levels from high school to graduate school. We’ll be doing open science, so there’ll be lots of livestreaming and lots of open tools produced. There’ll be lots of working materials and academic papers published, and whenever we manage to make a big step forward our plan is to present it to the world using the immediate and accessible approach to exposition that I’ve developed."
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#7I'm not knowledgeable enough to have an opinion on the physics project, but I find it interesting how polarized HN is about it.
For some people it's a whole new world that will lead to new findings, for others it seems like they compare it to them having invented a new language and acting busy "translating" everything that was already discovered to this new language and being surprised they can.
Funny how even mathematics and physics can be so subjective when most people can't actually work through the math themselves and only depend on "expert" opinion.
Re: We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
#8This guy is full-on crank at this point. His newer kind of science is going to revolutionize everything, I’m sure. > We want to use our new paradigm to basically rewrite the foundations of several important fields of science. As with the Physics Project there’ll no doubt be tremendous synergy with existing approaches and the communities around them. Cellular automatons are going to do all of this?
No, it seems like hypergraphs should do this.
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#9The more I hear about Stephen Wolfram's schemes to name things after Stephen Wolfram, the more admirative I grow of Nicolas Bourbaki and wished he were publishing amazing math software these days.
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#10Either he is onto something or not, but his ego is going to scare any sane person away.