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The Mathematica system makes some beautiful, informative graphs, and presumably users can make those graphs with a minimum of fuss and bother. It's technically
by jonpeda 13y ago
The Mathematica system makes some beautiful, informative graphs, and presumably users can make those graphs with a minimum of fuss and bother. It's technically very nice.
Yet, in the entire blog post, is there one insight that wasn't a priori obvious? Maybe the bits about migration.
I don't see the "art and science" in this analysis, I see "stamp collecting" (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford)
- programnature 13y agoThe progression of interests over time was non-obvious to me. For instance the explosion of interest in travel in the 20s, and the temporary dip in interests like philosophical quotes also in the 20s. Theres a lot of stuff in the post, I wouldn't dismiss it because its TL;DR
- Create 13y agoThe LHC was built as a higgs factory. Or a stamp printing press, if you prefer. btw Mathematica would be little more than a DOE-MACSYMA/Maxima ripoff, not to mention the delusional "NKS" including its author.
- carlob 13y agoSo Rutherford says: "All science is either physics or stamp collecting" and then wins the Nobel prize for… You got that right: chemistry!
- rdouble 13y agoChemistry is applied physics, after all.