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Re: Mathematica 14

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> What is Wolfram Derangement Syndrome? He writes a lot about himself in every article and makes claims that others find excessive. Commenters get triggered by this and post about how annoying it is. These reactions are just as predictable and just as fixated on Wolfram himself as he is, and in that sense are guilty of the same thing. This repetitive dynamic is what I mean by Wolfram Derangement Syndrome. It has been…

> Commenters get triggered by this and post about how annoying it is. These reactions are just as predictable and just as fixated on Wolfram himself as he is, and in that sense are guilty of the same I agree with the gist of your position, but the wording here is inflammatory (suggesting people are “triggered” rather than justifiably angry) and are obsessing over a man when in my experience his history of similar beh…

Yup, I get how my comment could feel inflammatory to those who feel that way about Wolfram, and how the words 'triggered' and 'derangement' might push on sore spots. I'm sorry if it rubs the wrong way—I know these things can land in unpleasant ways, and that's not what I mean to do.

I do mean to exhort the community a bit when I post like that. From the HN point of view, it's not interesting to talk about Wolfram's egoic tics because there's nothing new to say or learn about it. It's simply a recitation of old resentments that have been circulating since before HN existed. We ought to be able to recognize this and turn our attention to more interesting things—and Wolfram does usually have more interesting things to say.

Re: Mathematica 14

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Wolfram would like to say that he invented Mathematica all by himself, but in its core, it is basically a lisp: everything is an expression, and mathematics are just transformations of the expressions. Afaik this makes it the best tool (conceptually and practically) for generic symbolic manipulations. For example, `1 + 1` in Mathematica is just syntactic sugar for `Plus[1, 1]`, and `a = 1` is `Set[a, 1]`. I am a PhD…

> I am a PhD student in theoretical physics and almost everyone in our field has no choice but to use it I got my theoretical physics Ph.D. in 1987. I’ve never met anyone who uses Mathematica, except to try it out a bit out of curiosity. Perhaps you’re referring to a particular research group?

Ah, to be more precise, I work in high energy theory (hep-th): https://arxiv.org/archive/hep-th. I shouldn't have spoken for theoretical physics in general, but in hep-th, mathematica is basically a requirement (nowadays, can't say for 1987). I believe the same applies to high energy phenomenology (hep-ph) in which some fundamental packages (e.g. feyncalc) are written in mathematica.

Re: Mathematica 14

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Musk doesn't do this for you. Notice the pattern, he does it to attract the kind of engineers attracted to solving 'unsolvable' problems. Whether that's a good strategy is up in the air.

ah yes mastermind musk defense. He is not 'lying' he is 'envisioning future to motivate engineers'.

He’s totally lying, just not to you.

Good engineers in specialized fields are really difficult to hire, this might not be apparent to people in the software industry.

Re: Mathematica 14

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> I am a PhD student in theoretical physics and almost everyone in our field has no choice but to use it I got my theoretical physics Ph.D. in 1987. I’ve never met anyone who uses Mathematica, except to try it out a bit out of curiosity. Perhaps you’re referring to a particular research group?

Ah, to be more precise, I work in high energy theory (hep-th): https://arxiv.org/archive/hep-th . I shouldn't have spoken for theoretical physics in general, but in hep-th, mathematica is basically a requirement (nowadays, can't say for 1987). I believe the same applies to high energy phenomenology (hep-ph) in which some fundamental packages (e.g. feyncalc) are written in mathematica.

That’s not one of the areas I’ve worked in, so that’s interesting to know.
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