alt Hacker NewsAnother criticism of this book is that it seems to give Wolfram credit for a bunch of discoveries made by a huge array of people in math, CS, and areas like complexity, game theory, artificial life and AI, etc.
Another criticism of this book is that it seems to give Wolfram credit for a bunch of discoveries made by a huge array of people in math, CS, and areas like complexity, game theory, artificial life and AI, etc.
Why blame the book for giving the author credit, instead of the author for giving himself credit?
Admittedly the book did take on a life of its own, and he wrote it in Mathematica and built it with his own hand rolled CI/CD pipeline (FrameMaker + Wolfram Language diagrams + MIF export/import + automated build script + alpha/beta readers + DQA/SQA).
The Making of A New Kind of Science:
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/05/the-making-of-a-...
>At his request, I'd sent Steve Jobs a copy of the book—and I asked if he'd like to provide a quote. He responded that he thought I really shouldn't have quotes on the back of the book. "Isaac Newton didn't have quotes; nor should you."
A New Kind of Necronomicron
https://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2014/11/hcf-exclusive-intervie...