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Samstag, 13. November 2004

"Its astounding complication was completely out of proportion with what I was expecting." — Benoît Mandelbrot im Interview.

"I would like scientists, engineers and the whole of society to understand the true meaning of statistics. People have generally been indoctrinated to believe that the world is simpler than it is."

"In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher."

"[...] [S]ome sets are emptier than others in a certain useful way. It is an idea that almost everyone greets with great suspicion, thinking I've gone soft in the brain in my old age."

2004-11-13-mandelplex

Frank Manola: "When Pete answered, his phone turned the sound down by sending a message to all the local devices that had a volume control. Unfortunately, this also included the phone's volume control, the manufacturer not having been sufficiently precise in specifying its rules, so Pete thought there wasn't anyone on the line." — When rules rule ... Hilarious.

2004-11-13-rules

Functional Programming and the J Programming Language

2004-11-13-fnj

Mathematica's Google Aptitude — Interesting Mathematica solutions to some of the problems in the Google Labs Aptitude Test. Multi-line Mathematica code approaches the beauty of Perl.

And did you know that Sergey Brin once interned at Wolfram Research?

f:{,/{(#x;*x)}'(&~=':0,x)_ x}; 5 f\,1

2004-11-13-sergeyInside

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