Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea.
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