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by WoahNoun 846 days ago
It's a running joke that Wolfram is a jobs program for math PhD's. The difference isn't necessarily technical, but the sheer amount of labor that has gone into adding more edge cases and niche use cases. Sympy is great but like most open source, it's created by volunteer maintainers supported by donations.

I imagine the difference is even bigger in things like solving ODE's/PDE's.
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Qem 846 days ago
> It's a running joke that Wolfram is a jobs program for math PhD's.

Nice. The PhDs just need take care their contributions aren't misappropriated. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

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wakawaka28 846 days ago
It's funny you should say that. Wolfram himself tried to take credit for the concept of cellular automata.
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