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Article directory — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:45:06 -0000

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.

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Azithromycin Manufacturer — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:45:47 -0000

A lot of negative feedback here. Its simple as if you do not know or not a techie on navigating Mathematica, then W. Alpha is not for you.

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aed defibrillator — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:51:02 -0000

An immediate help is worth our applause. Better to improve the study.

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replacement — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:37:33 -0000

One of the good things that I thought existed with 23andMe is that they have a nice agnostic platform which aggregates information on certain SNPs, similar but not the same as SNPedia........Let's face it, any knuckle head can do the social networking. But the hard work was the data aggregation......
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Penny Stock Picks — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:07:30 -0000

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.

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Rebecca Rubin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:34:17 -0000

. 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.

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Miami Dolphins Jerseys — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:39:09 -0000

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.

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north carolina outer banks — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:31:36 -0000

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.

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Hampers — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:16:24 -0000

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WindowsBlinds — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:36:37 -0000

Wolfram alpha is great but surely it is not going to replace anything - it will merely provide more tools to learn.

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Quality Leaflet Printing — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:37:09 -0000

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

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FTA Files — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:12:37 -0000

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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Managed Hosting — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:47:40 -0000

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.

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Biz — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:57:08 -0000

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

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introspective — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:18:20 -0000

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mklov — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:19:51 -0000

Wow, great site!

thanks Cariaso

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cariaso — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:29:27 -0000

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

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mklov — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:02:36 -0000

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

Re: Wolfram Alpha destroys 23andMe’s Strategic Advantage? Huh?

anon — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:04:50 -0000

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!
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