Wolfram|Alpha
Monday, May 18th, 2009 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manI just had a look at the online demo of this, and was very impressed.
I then read the comments on a BBC blog post about it, and was astonished by how many people wrote it off as useless because it couldn't make sense of their questions, or answered them wrongly. Doesn't anyone understand what "alpha" means, and appreciate that this is a work in progress? They're all saying they'd do better with Google, but I can be sure Google would have been as flakey at a similar stage of progress...
I then read the comments on a BBC blog post about it, and was astonished by how many people wrote it off as useless because it couldn't make sense of their questions, or answered them wrongly. Doesn't anyone understand what "alpha" means, and appreciate that this is a work in progress? They're all saying they'd do better with Google, but I can be sure Google would have been as flakey at a similar stage of progress...
