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Brian Arthur, the economist who discovered what we now call ‘network effects’, has a really interesting point here, at the opening of his SFI podcast. The basic idea is that it seems the sciences are all shifting towards computational thought, instead of applied mathematics!

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Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

Of course the point he’s making is that much more entertaining because he points out a similar shift in thought primitives occured in the 1600s, with the rise of algebra! “Algebra was bitterly opposed by Keppler … Newton called algebra the analysis of bunglers!”

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Of course, algebra isn’t going away, like geometry didn’t go away with the rise of algebra — but what it means for something to be ‘scientific’ may well change during my lifetime!

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Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

Nov 21, 2021

Also it seems I use too many exclamation marks after programming for a day!