Re:Wolfram: Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of...
by hollerith on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @03:09PM
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My impression is different: I think Wolfram is hard-working, but his internal mental life is so full of fantasies of unlimited success and fame that he cannot manage an impartial-enough evaluation of his own work output.
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Re:Wolfram: Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of...
by FilosofumRex on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:18PM
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"your impression", is true only in the Ruliad. Ask people who knew him back in the 80's... he never worked on anything on his own that has amounted to anything. He is a real life crank, crackpot and all around charlatan.
Mathematica is the product of 30 years of work on Macsyma and Maple systems at MIT and elsewhere, which he cracked its codebase, usurped and sold to an unsuspecting academic community back when only the likes of Bill Gates would do such as thing.
He also missed the entire LLM wave because he refused to open source WolframAlpha codebase and work with others in the NLP community.
Re:Wolfram: Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of...
by hollerith on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @09:25PM
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So, ah, my "full of fantasies of unlimited success and fame" was not derogatory enough for your tastes, then?
Re:Wolfram: Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of...
by mentalgear on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @03:49PM
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any specific source ? (fire time I hear that about Wolfram )