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Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

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Re: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

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Post by prepend »

Jerry2 wrote: post #7
adwhit wrote: post #3

Wolfram talking about Wolfram for 14,000 words. The most Wolfram thing imaginable. Wolfram!

Reminded me of this classic: >A group of friends and I used to do dramatic readings of the About the Author text from the Mathematica Book, which begins thusly: >About the Author >Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today. >The guy wrote that himself. >Wait, while searching for that, I see he updated it slightly in…

He may have the data to make the argument. I suppose if anyone wanted to measure such things which really shouldn’t be measured, I bet Wolfram has a compelling case.

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Post by gcbw2 »

Jerry2 wrote: post #7
adwhit wrote: post #3

Wolfram talking about Wolfram for 14,000 words. The most Wolfram thing imaginable. Wolfram!

Reminded me of this classic: >A group of friends and I used to do dramatic readings of the About the Author text from the Mathematica Book, which begins thusly: >About the Author >Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today. >The guy wrote that himself. >Wait, while searching for that, I see he updated it slightly in…

Thanks for sharing this. Helped me understand what i was reading before.

It honestly took me a while to realize the article wasn't an April fools post!

I am still upvoting the submission for its comedic value.

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Post by l9k »

techgipper wrote: post #5

Funny, I do this with my digital trash can: When I was consulting at Bell Labs in the early 1980s I saw that a friend of mine had two garbage cans in his office. When I asked him why, he explained that one was for genuine garbage and the other was a buffer into which he would throw documents that he thought he’d probably never want again. He’d let the buffer garbage can fill up, and once it was full, he’d throw away…

I do that with tabs for online articles I (probably) want to read.

Re: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

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Post by jhall1468 »

BucketSort wrote: post #13

Say what you want about Wolfram, he's a brilliant guy. Brilliant people often have strange quirks and egos, but that's just a part of being them. Also, this account has only posted links about Wolfram. Is it him or an assistant?

Linus Torvalds is quirky and has an ego. Steven Wolfram is one of the most arrogant people I've ever read. It comes through in virtually every aspect of his writing.

It's understood that people who are exceptional smart aren't always socially pleasant, but Wolfram is trying to raise that bar by quite a bit.

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Post by dang »

adwhit wrote: post #3

Wolfram talking about Wolfram for 14,000 words. The most Wolfram thing imaginable. Wolfram!

Please don't take HN threads on MPTs (Most Predictable Tangent). They're always the same, therefore tedious, therefore off topic here.

Those who haven't had enough can find their fill at https://hn.algolia.com/.

Re: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

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Post by MasterScrat »

l9k wrote: post #16
techgipper wrote: post #5

Funny, I do this with my digital trash can: When I was consulting at Bell Labs in the early 1980s I saw that a friend of mine had two garbage cans in his office. When I asked him why, he explained that one was for genuine garbage and the other was a buffer into which he would throw documents that he thought he’d probably never want again. He’d let the buffer garbage can fill up, and once it was full, he’d throw away…

I do that with tabs for online articles I (probably) want to read.

You should use Pocket for that: getpocket.com

Re: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

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Post by BucketSort »

jhall1468 wrote: post #17
BucketSort wrote: post #13

Say what you want about Wolfram, he's a brilliant guy. Brilliant people often have strange quirks and egos, but that's just a part of being them. Also, this account has only posted links about Wolfram. Is it him or an assistant?

Linus Torvalds is quirky and has an ego. Steven Wolfram is one of the most arrogant people I've ever read. It comes through in virtually every aspect of his writing. It's understood that people who are exceptional smart aren't always socially pleasant, but Wolfram is trying to raise that bar by quite a bit.

Could he be autistic or something? Usually people would know how they would be perceived if they were well socialized. In any case, it doesn't bother me. He thinks his work is of the utmost importance and wants to be in the annals of mathematics alongside Newton, Einstein, etc. He won't be, but let him have his fun. He's at least doing interesting things, unlike these unbearable celebrities that are incredibly dull, but everyone fawns over. I hereby transfer the right of ego from the mainstream celebs to the scientists.
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