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Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by motoboi on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:25AM (#30944824)
I suppose you are not familiar with his early career as a physicist, publishing in the field since he was 15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Early_career
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Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by gammarator on Thursday April 07, 2022 @12:01PM (#30946338)
That doesn’t tell us much about the quality of the work under discussion.
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Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by motoboi on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:14PM (#30950419)
No. But I'm replying to the OP argument that his physics career began with the book.
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Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by crispyambulance on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:04PM (#30952537)
No, I was trying to say that the book was when he first demonstrated that he was very much an outsider. Even by then he had been out of academia for a long time, busy building his company and making his fortune.
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Re:We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the W... by crispyambulance on Thursday April 07, 2022 @01:09PM (#30947370)
That was 40+ years ago.
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