Chapter 4 Summary – NKS SS Series

Haven’t read Chapter 4 of A New Kind of Science? Start reading it here.
Systems Based on Numbers
We’ll summarize by going through each of the sections and hitting on the salient points. Note that the summaries are very condensed, and are meant to give a broad picture of what is going on. Later on we’ll get [...]

Notable article on Wolfram|Alpha, and Demo on YouTube

Yesterday Stephen Wolfram gave a demo of Wolfram|Alpha at Harvard University. Wolfram|Alpha demo:

Naturally, it generated a lot of buzz, and a lot of misunderstanding. For those who haven’t been reading up on Wolfram’s statements about Wolfram|Alpha, there seems to exist the impression that W|A is meant to replace Google. A much [...]