Comments on: Is Wolfram Alpha better or just different? http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/05/10/is-wolfram-alpha-better-or-just-different/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jonathon http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/05/10/is-wolfram-alpha-better-or-just-different/comment-page-1/#comment-222403 Jonathon Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:16:01 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=15848#comment-222403 wolfa is just diff not better. it's use will grow as time goes on and the site gets more popular tho. their contract with bing.com is gunna skyrocket it wolfa is just diff not better. it’s use will grow as time goes on and the site gets more popular tho. their contract with bing.com is gunna skyrocket it

]]> By: FactExplorer http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/05/10/is-wolfram-alpha-better-or-just-different/comment-page-1/#comment-178487 FactExplorer Sun, 10 May 2009 22:03:27 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=15848#comment-178487 The answer to the article title question is 'different', not better. It's annoying that most of the Wolfram Alpha articles are trying to assign a simplistic, transitive property like 'better than', to a tool which they haven't fully explored yet. It's also disappointing that one of the words which partly describes WAlpha, is hardly being used at all: Gift. This tool will be a treasure to students, scientists, and researchers, yes. But it will also get people involved in science, who have the curiosity, who want to know more - but they don't have the time or inclination to sit through years of irrelevant schooling, just to understand one aspect of some field of human knowledge. And it will help make such explorations enjoyable. Specialty tool? Yes, but more. WAlpha will be put to uses which neither we, nor Stephen and his crew, have imagined yet. That much is already clear, and I can't thank Stephen and his team enough, for expending their time and resources to create this. Eagerly awaiting WAlpha's debut. The answer to the article title question is ‘different’, not better. It’s annoying that most of the Wolfram Alpha articles are trying to assign a simplistic, transitive property like ‘better than’, to a tool which they haven’t fully explored yet.

It’s also disappointing that one of the words which partly describes WAlpha, is hardly being used at all: Gift.

This tool will be a treasure to students, scientists, and researchers, yes. But it will also get people involved in science, who have the curiosity, who want to know more – but they don’t have the time or inclination to sit through years of irrelevant schooling, just to understand one aspect of some field of human knowledge. And it will help make such explorations enjoyable.

Specialty tool? Yes, but more. WAlpha will be put to uses which neither we, nor Stephen and his crew, have imagined yet. That much is already clear, and I can’t thank Stephen and his team enough, for expending their time and resources to create this.

Eagerly awaiting WAlpha’s debut.

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