As has been mentioned in various places, Wolfram's writing contains a large amount of hubris. At this point I'm okay with it, he's certainly earned the ego up to a point. I know that I have no right to an ego of that size, although I may have attempted to lease it in the past.

My main desire for reading the book is to (surprise surprise) delve in as deep as I can into CA work, and NKS seems to be the best place to look for right now. I don't think I'm going to gain any deeper insight into the way the world works, but if I do I certainly won't turn it down.

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I've begun reading A New Kind of Science, and I've been writing automata code that I just want to run as fast as possible. I know, it happened when I got obsessed with Conway's Life a while back, and it happened again.

I can't help but think it's a good thing, though. In coming up with C versions of the algorithms, I've had to solve problems in different ways. Different than I would have done it in Python. It's a good thing to stretch the brain in different ways.

Besides, Cocoa is a lot of fun to play with. I've done things with Cocoa that I never bother to attempt in MFC or Swing. Not that they were really difficult, but they were just annoying enough that I didn't want to get sidetracked. Much of what I've done with Cocoa I did because I just thought "I wonder if I could do this?" Usually 5 minutes later, I discover that I could do it.

Still, I feel bad that I've been cheating on Python.

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