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

Stephen Wolfram

And there was one way in which Ed and I were very much aligned: both of our lives were deeply influenced by computers and computing. 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”. And sometimes I would mention physics.