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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

And perhaps on the basis of that experience, he would still, even at the end of his life, matter-of-factly refer to himself as “the world’s best programmer”. He always radiated a certain adventurous joy—together with supreme, almost-childlike confidence. My own career had begun in the 1970s with traditional fundamental physics.