Comment on The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in TroubleComments−saraid21612yI haven't read Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, but something tells me that this is a one page summary of it?−shoyer12yUh... no. A New Kind of Science is its own special kind of nonsense. For the most part, Wolfram argues that cellular automata are a transformative paradigm for science. It's not about the power of "big data" at all.−saraid21612yHuh. All the discussion on HN that I saw on it seemed to revolve entirely around big data. Nevermind, I guess.
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I haven't read Wolfram's A New Kind of Science, but something tells me that this is a one page summary of it?
Uh... no. A New Kind of Science is its own special kind of nonsense. For the most part, Wolfram argues that cellular automata are a transformative paradigm for science. It's not about the power of "big data" at all.
Huh. All the discussion on HN that I saw on it seemed to revolve entirely around big data. Nevermind, I guess.