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| Nov 6, 2009 at 18:28 | comment | added | Anton Geraschenko | Qiaochu Yuan says: Math Overflow is not a forum. It has no collective opinion on Wolfram, and this is not the place to discuss your opinion of his work. | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 18:27 | comment | added | Anton Geraschenko | interesting (user 1504) says: i find it interesting that someone posted one paper that refuted 44 claims posed by wolfram and that this was deleted. as a matter of fact this paper can be considered circumstantial evidence for what dimitry was pointing out. Obviously this forum seems to be run by wolfram enthusiasts. | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 18:25 | comment | added | Anton Geraschenko | dimitry (user 1087) says: @Qiaochu: That's just simply sad news altogether. There is a good point raised by Paul Stuart and that is the point raised about reliability. Wolfram Alpha, is a black box. God knows how reliable its answers are. If I aint completely sure, Wolfram had been (not unfairly) accused of being sloppy in many of his claims in his previous work on ANKS. If this is based on work in ANKS I'd be wary too. | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 18:23 | comment | added | Anton Geraschenko | Reid Barton says: You can easily get it to give you nonsense--try entering "klein bottle" | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 18:22 | comment | added | Anton Geraschenko | Qiaochu Yuan says: In all honesty, I use Wolfram Alpha whenever I can't be bothered to remember what the real syntax for a command in Mathematica is. | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 18:21 | comment | added | Anton Geraschenko | Paul Stuart says: I think Wolfram Alpha is just a waste of computational effort. Whatever comes from the Wolfram corner I'd be wary. It ranges from acclaimed proofs to acclaimed "correct computation". Note they are infamous for making claims or assertions that aren't true. So, think twice. | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 18:21 | comment | added | Anton Geraschenko | There are a bunch of rep 1 users who really want to discuss this, but can't post comments, so they're posting answers. I'm going to just move all those comments here and hope the problem goes away. | |
| Oct 23, 2009 at 19:33 | vote | accept | vonjd | ||
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| Oct 23, 2009 at 19:33 | vote | accept | vonjd | ||
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| Oct 23, 2009 at 19:25 | history | answered | Kim Greene | CC BY-SA 2.5 |