tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post7458145479677101570..comments2024-03-03T18:49:34.382-05:00Comments on Omics! Omics!: is Wolfram Alpha good for anything???Keith Robisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04765318239070312590noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post-41889053567716002882009-05-20T09:23:41.111-04:002009-05-20T09:23:41.111-04:00Nuts! All this time I was converting from Angstrom...Nuts! All this time I was converting from Angstroms to cubits using paper and pencil! :-) Thanks for pointing this out -- now I'm even more stumped on WA's novel utility.Keith Robisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04765318239070312590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post-61418328717884922872009-05-20T09:10:23.492-04:002009-05-20T09:10:23.492-04:00Does seem a bit anti-climactic, doesn't it.
There...Does seem a bit anti-climactic, doesn't it.<br /><br />There's another interesting review from a scientific perspective at <A HREF="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/05/wolframs-black-box-a-biologists-take-on-wolframalpha.ars" REL="nofollow">Ars Technica</A>. Many of the same objections...Andrew Clegghttp://biotext.org.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post-92141195514950523722009-05-20T08:55:07.780-04:002009-05-20T08:55:07.780-04:00Keith - even before Alpha you didn't have to perfo...Keith - even before Alpha you didn't have to perform those tedious unit conversions manually; Google has been doing them for a long time now. In fact, if you type '60 mph in angstroms per sec' in the Google search box in Firefox, the answer pops up in a tooltip without even having to do the search.<br /><br />CJCJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044926552818255449noreply@blogger.com