[ale] Gone OT: Cobb Laptop Deal

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 00:18 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Let me put in a plug here for A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE by Stephen Wolfram.
> I've only just started to penetrate this weighty tome but the thrust of
> what he seems to be trying to say is that simple systems that obey
> simple rules can exhibit very high complexity.  
> 
> For example, the 1-D elementary cellular automaton known as Rule 30
> produces a pattern whose characteristic is statistically
> indistinguishable from randomness (see
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rule30.html).  This finding, to me, is
> astonishing and tosses a giant spanner into the I.D. notion that complex
> structures cannot arise from simple, granular processes that operate
> according to simple, finite rules.  
> 
> Jeff
> 
I have put off digging into that book but you have just given me a
reason to crack it open as that piques my interest. Now to find some
time (I have 4 books open on my desk, 3 development projects (one in a
language I don't normally work in), and a new Tom Clancy novel by the
bed). At least I've already finished the latest Harry Potter :)
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