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Anonymous · 7 months ago

They'll need to do better than this: http://www96.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=rs429358

Wolfram|Alpha also only has access to publicly available data. Access to all of the *abstracts* in PubMed isn't going to obviate the need for human curators any time soon.

Andrew Yates · 7 months ago

Yah, I don't get the hype. First, give Alpha a few years before expecting a more than a free Mathematica web prompt (which is cool itself, but unless you need to solve a complex equation, it's not relevant to most people). Second, Alpha has an API, and they'll probably sell access to their engine for your own data sets. That's also cool, but you'd still have to generate and administrate the data. Alpha would only be a data viewer and linker ---again, useful, but it's not "Magic." It's not going to magically "decode your DNA" using "AI" or any such rubbish. It will be hard work, clever design, and complex mathematics, and if it seems "magic" to you, that's only because you didn't care to learn how it worked.

anon · 7 months ago

One of the big advantages to 23andme is distilling knowledge.

I know how to do web research, read scientific studies, and understand complex statistical data. But I don't have time to read 20 studies for each of my SNPs, track refutations and replications, etc. Wolfram Alfa will not change this.

The Sherpa is confusing his desires with reality.

Btw, I noticed that Wolfram Alpha provided interpretation of LDL test results in the linked video. Clearly they are on the cusp of practicing medicine.

Oh, and one last thing: have you seen their legal Terms of Service???
Have fun using it!
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/1...

mikailov · 7 months ago

Agree with anon in regards to the ability to decode LDL tests - really cool.

Ultimately it would be awesome to upload my 20k genes to a tool that can employ some sort of AI (ie markovmodel?) and find out if I have markers for disease and furthermore show relevant publications etc about those markers. If not Wolfram then someone else will probably do this. I don't see why 23andMe couldn't...

-anar

cariaso · 6 months ago

mikailov there is more human intelligence, than AI but perhaps http://www.promethease.com is something like what you imagine

mikailov · 6 months ago

Wow, great site!

thanks Cariaso

introspective · 6 months ago

Wolfram Alpha is a good news in the area of search engines. It has some advantages compared to the other search engines. Still, it is not the competition to Google or other search engines, since it uses totally different approach. It is more like dictionary or encyclopedia than search engine.

Biz · 5 months ago

I like Wolfram Alpha. It offers a completely new way of searching for information.

Managed Hosting · 2 months ago

That's also cool, but you'd still have to generate and administrate the data. Alpha would only be a data viewer and linker ---again, useful, but it's not "Magic." It's not going to magically "decode your DNA" using "AI" or any such rubbish.

FTA Files · 2 months ago

Yah, I don't get the hype. First, give Alpha a few years before expecting a more than a free Mathematica web prompt (which is cool itself, but unless you need to solve a complex equation, it's not relevant to most people).

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It would be cool if I could query Mathematica from a free REST HTTP API. If you don’t know what Mathematica is, and you don’t know what all three of those acronyms mean, then Wolfram Alpha isn’t for you