"Perhaps the relativity of the goodness of software is at the root of the classic distinction between the software design styles that have been named the New Jersey and MIT schools. Where the latter strives for software that is well modeled directly, regardless of the underlying platform, the former strives for software that is well modeled as a simple implementation on top of an underlying platform that is assumed to be worth understanding regardless."
My original post, “Remove Richard Stallman”, has received over 180,000 views at the time that I am writing this. Since then, I’ve spoken with a few reporters, and even more information has been…
H. Lin, M. Tegmark, and D. Rolnick. (2016)cite arxiv:1608.08225Comment: Replaced to match version published in Journal of Statistical Physics: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10955-017-1836-5 Improved refs & discussion, typos fixed. 16 pages, 3 figs.