techgipper

Ehhh, you know, he's not a journalist. He's the founder and CEO of a company that he is very hands on at. What you view as arrogance and self-promotion is really just a man who is obsessed with the technology he builds and works on every single day. No one is forcing you to read his stuff or pay attention to him.

Or maybe the fact that Feigenbaum was an avid user of Mathematica partly for the reason stated there is why it was included?

He hints to as much in the book itself...

https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/notes-0-1--citations-and-...

In developing the ideas described in this book I have looked at many thousands of books, papers and websites—and have interacted with hundreds of people (see page xiii). But rather than trying to give a huge list of specific references, I have instead included in these notes historical information tracing key contributions. From the names of concepts and people that I mention, it is straightforward to do web or database searches that give a vastly more complete picture of available references than could possibly fit in a book of manageable size—or than could be created correctly without immense scholarship. Note that while most current works of science tend to refer mainly just to very recent material, this book often refers to material that is centuries or even millennia old—in some ways more in the tradition of fields like philosophy.

Looks like the company he worked for filed that, not him?

I can assure you staff do not write for him. In fact, he's known to get frustrated when people make suggestions on his writing because he's very particular (perhaps even stubborn) about it.

>>you can't build a deployable app with it with anything but a notebook interface. A notebook might be great for a researcher but it's not a good interface for many other kinds of programs.

There are several IDEs one can use: https://www.wolfram.com/developer/resources/

>>I also have an issue with Wolfram's documentation or the lack thereof.

There are literally tens of thousands of pages of documentation? https://reference.wolfram.com/language/

Is that a dare? :)

So, he's just been sitting around for several years just waiting to "take action" ... doesn't really make sense. I'd also like to think that Jan Poeschko is smart enough to read a contract.

The developer works at Wolfram, just FYI.

https://medium.com/@poeschko

Watching his livestreams, he seems like a reasonable guy focused on real work designing a programming language and software. Not sure what you're alluding to in 1990, guess it's been disappeared from the web.

Yeah there's live information sourced from all over the place...kind of like Wolfram Alpha in a notebook

https://www.wolframalpha.com/knowledgebase/

It's had multiple undo in notebooks (quite more than "an editor") for a while, and you can run it from a command line or use an IDE.

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/program/wolframsc...

Funny, I do this with my digital trash can:

When I was consulting at Bell Labs in the early 1980s I saw that a friend of mine had two garbage cans in his office. When I asked him why, he explained that one was for genuine garbage and the other was a buffer into which he would throw documents that he thought he’d probably never want again. He’d let the buffer garbage can fill up, and once it was full, he’d throw away the lower documents in it, since from the fact that he hadn’t fished them out, he figured he’d probably never miss them if they were thrown away permanently.

The learning curve is pretty insane but once you get past that it's a really fun language to work in especially if you want to build or test something really fast just to see if something will work.

Was watching one of Wolfram's Twitch streams and the front end is supposedly going to be 64 bit in the newest version (12 I think).

interesting—i wonder how this ties into "black box" AI algorithms.

Not true: Python is callable from a Wolfram Notebook: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/ConfigurePyt...

Romer also published notebooks and PDFs without issue previously: https://assets.aeaweb.org/assets/production/articles-attachm...

Something about his story is odd. Given his shady past at the World Bank, who knows what's actually true.