Tim, Thanks for the prompt. Can you point me to a description of what's possible with W|A? i can put together a draft that you can then rev.
Best wishes, --greg On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu>wrote: > > Greg, > > If you have any thoughts on effective ways to model this query grammar > id be interested in your thoughts :-) > > Cheers, Tim > > On Jun 11, 10:38 pm, Meredith Gregory <lgreg.mered...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > All, > > > > Thanks for all this input. It certainly helps me see the value-prop > better. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > --greg > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Kris Nuttycombe > > <kris.nuttyco...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I sort of see Wolfram Alpha as simply an incredibly sophisticated > > > calculator instead of an information discovery tool. What were you > > > trying to compute about polyadic pi-calculus? > > > > > Alpha seems to be trying to put all sorts of different kinds of data > > > into a common, hugely high-dimensional space so that you can perform > > > computations on it, where your computations are expressed in a mix of > > > mathematical and natural language. There are certainly a lot of things > > > that it's not useful for yet, but it's a tremendously interesting > > > problem. > > > > > Kris > > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Meredith > > > Gregory<lgreg.mered...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Tim, > > > > > > Thanks for the response. i'll have to noodle on that one. Off the top > of > > > my > > > > head, i'm usually in this loop > > > > > > Initially, usually badly formulated question > > > > Get information sources > > > > Reformulate question > > > > Loop > > > > > > So, i don't really see much difference between the two, except by > use. i > > > > will think about it, though. > > > > > > Best wishes, > > > > > > --greg > > > > -- > > L.G. Meredith > > Managing Partner > > Biosimilarity LLC > > 1219 NW 83rd St > > Seattle, WA 98117 > > > > +1 206.650.3740 > > > > http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com > > > -- L.G. Meredith Managing Partner Biosimilarity LLC 1219 NW 83rd St Seattle, WA 98117 +1 206.650.3740 http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
