{"id":456,"date":"2009-03-08T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2009-03-08T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T20:47:54","slug":"wolfram-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2009\/03\/wolfram-alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfram Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"

The remarkable (and prolific) Stephen Wolfram has an idea<\/a> called Wolfram Alpha. People used to assume the “Star Trek” model of computers:<\/p>\n

that one would be able to ask a computer any factual question, and have it compute the answer.<\/p>\n

Which has proved to be quite distant from reality. Instead<\/p>\n

But armed with Mathematica<\/em> and NKS [A New Kind of Science<\/a>] I realized there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another way: explicitly implement methods and models, as algorithms, and explicitly curate all data so that it is immediately computable.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not easy to do this. Every different kind of method and model\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand data\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhas its own special features and character. But with a mixture of Mathematica<\/em> and NKS automation, and a lot of human experts, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m happy to say that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gotten a very long way.<\/p>\n

I’m still a SearchMonkey guy at heart, so I wonder how much Wofram’s team is familiar with existing Semantic Web research and practice–because at a high level this seems very much like RDF with suitable queries thereupon. If that’s a good characterization, that’s A Good Thing, since practical application has been one of SemWeb’s weak spots.<\/p>\n

-m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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