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Heh accurate predictions. Wolfram strive mightily to create an environment that still is at best begrudgingly shared with others who aren’t thrilled to be there either. Mathematica is adopted despite the put-up-with-wolfram which says a lot about its brilliance.
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Interesting story from the interwebs. 26yo Stephen Wolfram was unhappy at being treated badly at the IAS. He wanted to start his own institute to continue his research and asked his ex-colleague, Feynman, for advice. Feynman’s reply:
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The best use of mathematica was by a friend in physics grad school days who'd type up notes, equations (and "solve" if it was left to students), and then nicely format, export to pdf and send to all of us in the class. We got more "tricks of trade" than textbooks.
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