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Lots of new features for wolfram alpha
- j_baker 17y agoLook! Support for functional programming and pure functions: http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/ComputationalScience.html http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/ComputationalScience.ht...
- yannis 17y agoThe amazing thing about it is that it is an 'answers engine'. Unlike web search engines, it does not try to return relevant web pages to a particular search term. It treats your query as a question and attempt to compute an answer. Its internal databases are already massive. It is a much higher bar to say 'we want to get the answer'. More intriguing in a recent interview with David Cohen from New Scientist Stephen Wolfram claims to have found a model which describes the universe using cellular automata (even containing something that looks like general relativity). PS Missing a small textbox to LaTex the output!
- throw_away 17y agohe said something along similar lines on the wolfram blog just prior to alpha's release: http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/05/14/7-years-of-nksand-its-first-killer-app/ http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/05/14/7-years-of-nksand-its-fir...
- hga 17y agoIt's an interesting concept ... but they claim ownership of the output of their engine. That's perhaps reasonable based on what they're doing, and certainly their right, but it drops my interest in it to near 0 (note that based on my personal circumstances anything I do is non-commercial).