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Comment · 4 years ago
In Mathematica/Wolfram Languege, the part 0 of an expression is reserved for the head of the expression: f[x, y, z][[0]] == f. Or g[f][x, y][[0, 1]] == f.
Comment · 4 years ago
Scott's thots part 2
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My goto right now is to listen to One Piece OST.
Comment · 4 years ago
There is a difference between online education because there is no other way as there is a pandemic (are the students and the institution ready to switch to online, are the courses even designed to be imparted online, etc.), and online education because it's a choice.
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OK bud
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Would it be profitable, though?
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm not sure why comments mention CA. His physics theory and the multicomputation stuff does not make use of CA's (at least no more than any other abstract machine).
Comment · 4 years ago
Didn't he invent a numbering schema for classifying CA? That should count as an achievement.
Comment · 4 years ago
> it's nothing more than noodling cellular automata in ways that have had no effect whatsoever on chemistry, physics, or biology.

I mean, you could at least read a bit about what his Multicomputation stuff is really studying. CA are not being noodled there.

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Yes
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Simple rules do not necessarily mean simple behavior. Explore where observation leads in various different systems and rules.

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