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

Stephen Wolfram

Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain adventurous joy—together with supreme, almost-childlike confidence.

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

I Think I Should Write a Quick Book… In the end it’s about five and a half pounds of paper , 1280 pages, 973 illustrations and 583,313 words. But its creation took more than a decade of my life. Almost every day of my thirties, and a little beyond, I tenaciously worked on it. Figuring out more and more science. We’d released Version 1.0

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