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For me the real achievement of Wolfram is the visualization capabilities. The knowledge bases are nice if you happen to be interested in a domain that is repre
by solipsism 13y ago
For me the real achievement of Wolfram is the visualization capabilities. The knowledge bases are nice if you happen to be interested in a domain that is represented, and they make for great (controlled) demonstrations, but Wolfram Alpha (which taps these same knowledge bases) really fails often when making arbitrary but reasonable queries.
I think Wolframs visualization libs set a high bar, though, and I hope non-closed communities (like the python scientific/mathematic programming community, the R community, etc) will rally to meet the challenge.
- vincetogo 13y agoMy favourite Alpha goof is it interpreting the Planck mass as Max Planck's weight.
- taliesinb 13y agoThat's fun, but seems to be fixed: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+Planck+mass http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+Planck+mass
- vincetogo 13y agoIt shows up in more complex queries: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+Planck+mass%2Ftau+mass http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+Planck+mass%2Ftau+mass
- tremols 13y agoThat´s why I think that it can only be useful if its integrable via APIs and/or iframe widgets. I fail to see how can one do standalone apps with it.