Saturday, May 01, 2004

Very excellent NKS lecture

Cluey (if that's his real name, Danil) pointed me to to Wolfram's excellent lecture, A New Kind of Science and the Future of Mathematics. Did you buy his book? I did. Wow, is it heavy. It's one of the few books I have to read in pieces — all in one go and I wind up skimming too much. And the pretty pictures... oh so many pretty pictures. Here's just one, but is it a doosie:

To be 20 again, and a new kind of programmer.

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