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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

I know it's Halloween, but this popped up in my feed and was too spooky even for me 😱

As a side note, what are peoples feelings about Wolfram? Smart dude for sho, but some of the shit he says just comes across as straight up pseudoscientific gobbledygook. But can he out guru Big Yud in a 1v1 on Final Destination (fox only, no items) ? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

on a side note, I notice this passage in the review:

Wolfram refers incessantly to his "discovery" that simple rules can produce complex results. Now, the word "discovery" here is legitimate, but only in a special sense. When I took pre-calculus in high school, I came up with a method for solving systems of linear equations, independent of my textbook and my teacher: I discovered it. My teacher, more patient than I would be with adolescent arrogance, gently informed me that it was a standard technique, in any book on linear algebra, called "reduction to Jordan normal form", after the man who discovered it in the 1800s. Wolfram discovered simple rules producing complexity in just the same way that I discovered Jordan normal form.

this is certainly mistaken. I think the author or teacher must have meant RREF or something to that effect, not Jordan normal form

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gauss–Jordan elimination, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

yah there we go. gauss-jordan to reduce to rref

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