> From: Alex Rufon > > For the last few months (I started around November 2008 I think), I've > been reading Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science". I have to admit > that it has been taking an unusually long time for me to go through the > book. I usually read it during my lunch breaks. > > This morning, I tried out Wolfram Alpha and following links to it, I > stumbled on to a book review located here: > http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/ which summarizes > the books as "A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit > Insanity". > > I am now 2/3rds into the book and I believe I am not qualified (being > just a lowly BSBA-Economics grad) to comment on its topic. It does try > to apply itself to a diverse set of known concepts and ideas which I > just take at face value. > > So what do you guys think about this book?
Haven't read the book or tried Wolfram Alpha but read this review of it the other day: "http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/05/wolframs-black-box-a-biologists-take-on-wolframalpha.ars"; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
