Comments on: Wolfram Alpha http://quoperative.com/2009/05/14/wolfram-alpha/ blog descriptions are stupid Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris Gully http://quoperative.com/2009/05/14/wolfram-alpha/comment-page-1/#comment-194 Chris Gully Sat, 16 May 2009 12:54:04 +0000 http://quoperative.com/?p=424#comment-194 I'm not going to pretend this isn't awesome, because the whole thing is very impressive. However the screencast rather misrepresents the current state of the project, using handpicked examples (I'm sure I would have done the same thing). From my last 30 minutes of playing with it since it when live, I've had plenty of "WolframAlpha isn't sure what to do with your input". But if they keep adding more databases, and better logic, then it has a bright future. Here's hoping. But for now it just kind of reminds me of the Segway... I’m not going to pretend this isn’t awesome, because the whole thing is very impressive. However the screencast rather misrepresents the current state of the project, using handpicked examples (I’m sure I would have done the same thing). From my last 30 minutes of playing with it since it when live, I’ve had plenty of “WolframAlpha isn’t sure what to do with your input”.

But if they keep adding more databases, and better logic, then it has a bright future. Here’s hoping. But for now it just kind of reminds me of the Segway…

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