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Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro... by goodmachine on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:51AM (#22626588)
A New Kind of Science, S. Wolfram (2002)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science

"A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity"

http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/

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Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro... by dTal on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:03AM (#22626647)
But also, to be fair, a deeply fascinating mathematical picture-book.
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Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro... by yarrel on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:44PM (#22629209)
It is one of my favourite works of crank science, the hardback has pride of place in that section of my library. It's beautiful, mind-expanding, awe-inspiring, and over-inflated in the grandiosity of its self-regard way past the point of parody.
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Re:WolframScript enables Wolfram Language code to be run fro... by goodmachine on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:11AM (#22626696)
Agreed!
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