{"id":244,"date":"2003-02-28T12:21:20","date_gmt":"2003-02-28T17:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=244"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"a_new_kind_of_science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/28\/a_new_kind_of_science\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Kind of Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classy.dk\/log\/archive\/000229.html\">Classy<\/a> links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/freespace.virgin.net\/david.drysdale\/wolfram\/review.html\">review<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframscience.com\">A New Kind of Science<\/a>, which says:\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/freespace.virgin.net\/david.drysdale\/wolfram\/review.html\">Serious science should be predictive, not just descriptive.  To qualify as science that applies to the real world, I would have expected to see some kind of claim in the book which could be verified against the behavior of the real world.  Note that I&rsquo;m not expecting him to have actually performed the verification yet (the book has only just come out, after all), but that there should be some indication of a path that would lead to verifiable, falsifiable predictions.\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m withholding judgement until I read more of the book, but I definitely agree with the complaint about using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\">Mathematica<\/a> notation instead of math.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classy links to a review of A New Kind of Science, which says: Serious science should be predictive, not just descriptive. To qualify as science that applies to the real world, I would have expected to see some kind of claim in the book which could be verified against the behavior of the real world. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}