![]() There's an anecdote I think about Milton Friedman being shown people building a dam with shovels and not digging machines, to keep people employed in some God-forsaken country. But, it would have been nice to use them in some contexts and not just deny their existence. I get it - we need to learn 'the basics' and survive without tools to some degree. It was similar to being denied graphing calculators in A-Level Mathematics (in the UK, think high school). Why were we using all these bizarre tools? Can't we do this a million times faster? Why are we learning all these bizarre integrals? What's an object in Java? What's a compiler? All reasonable stuff.īut: Wolfram Research and Mathematica had, in a sense, ruined my undergraduate life before it started. And it was like, here's the power button. Here's why all this is relevant - I came back to real life to study CompSci on these old Sparc machines. It was a beautiful summer, biking to work and working with what I still think is one of, if not the, best language ever. I also fell asleep at my keyboard more than once. I met a bunch of interesting people and it was a blast. ![]() Find the volume, the number of faces and all kinds of stuff. ![]() #WOLFRAMALPHA DERIVATIVE CALCULATOR CODE#I worked on polyhedra for a summer, writing code that could unroll a polyhedral model to its 2D net. ![]() I made some demo things and got a slot, and flew to Champaign. I'd applied armed only with a library copy of the Mathematica book, so they sent me a CD with Mathematica on it. When I was 18, back in 1999, I had an internship at WRI (Wolfram Research) in Illinois. ![]()
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