I’ll say it: fractals are overrated. They are just a special case of recursion with good PR
@tim It is really interesting that the fractals and chaos theory hype of the ’90s mostly didn’t pan out into fundamental new understandings, and I wish we talked about this more!
@tim Did you see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya_LXa_y1E? I would be delighted in the equivalent but for those ’90s things. (I had a fractal shirt. I should get another one.)
@tim Like if you read https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atsc/20/2/1520-0469_1963_020_0130_dnf_2_0_co_2.xml?tab_body=pdf we never got a whole lot deeper than that in 60 years! Lots of very good work was done, no doubt, but the sense of “we’re onto something extremely big here” was never fulfilled! It’s kind of wild!
