http://www.gearfuse.com/wolfram-alpha-launches-tonight/ Gearfuse is a tech blog featuring news, views and opinions on the best of gadgets, gizmos, consumer electronics, hardware and more... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:42:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.gearfuse.com/wolfram-alpha-launches-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-185990 Ted Pawlowski Thu, 21 May 2009 00:44:02 +0000 http://www.gearfuse.com/?p=13413#comment-185990 I find it amusing to find that everybody has to prove that WA is not a Google killer. It seems self evident that they are two different beasts. You cannot use a destroyer to transport containers- two differents beasts! To state that WA will make learning Calculus obsolete is a total nonsense. Without studying mathematics you won't be able to formulate a question, let alone understand the answers. Same applies to other scientific disciplines. This is simply a tool to solve problems. Without knowing what the problem is, it is pointles to use it. I see it as great project. It may even get some brains to work again. I find it amusing to find that everybody has to prove that WA is not a Google killer. It seems self evident that they are two different beasts. You cannot use a destroyer to transport containers- two differents beasts!
To state that WA will make learning Calculus obsolete is a total nonsense. Without studying mathematics you won’t be able to formulate a question, let alone understand the answers. Same applies to other scientific disciplines. This is simply a tool to solve problems. Without knowing what the problem is, it is pointles to use it.
I see it as great project. It may even get some brains to work again.

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