I'm calling it a Halvar set for now, just to annoy you. I'll make a stupid backronym too!
Halvar Adds Link Verifying Arbitrary Randomness kit. Done.
@Seebart: Well, even you do, at least you'll have
something good to burn in winter!
Wolfram's an interesting character. He doesn't have the tact to realise he can't propose ideas in isolation, without the world reacting to him, the man. We are social creatures, quick to our pitchforks. He's smart enough to know that. But simultaneously dumb enough to walk right on into it, with the title of his book (the thing you're likely reacting to) and the way that it's written (with all mention of prior science, including von Neuman who invented the bloody thing Wolfram is using throughout, stuck away in the massive footnotes at the back).
Perhaps he likes to annoy. But if so he could try much harder, and make an everyday nuisance of himself. Instead, he merely undermines his own theories. Not enough to make them untouchable or forgotten, but more like a bad fart persisting in the air…
That vindaloo had better have been worth it.
