Count me in as a Wolfram Alpha naysayer. A "computable almanac" isn't
that useful, and its not a "step" to anything. Seemingly minor
increases in the intellectual complexity of a question require
astronomically better data, data models and algorithms, if they are
even possible to "compute." The answer, if there is an answer, lies in
Norvig's "unreasonable effectiveness of data,"[1] not in any
combination of "curated" data and "millions of lines of code."
Just an opinion!
Tim
[1] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-data.html
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Alexander Johannesen
<alexander.johannesen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Another nail in the library coffin, especially the academic ones ;
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIOH80Qg7Q
>
> Organisations and people are slowly turning into data producers, not
> book producers.
Received on Mon May 04 2009 - 00:42:09 EDT