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Ice House

#1
Posted : 5/6/2010 5:21:20 AM

Just Wondering if anyone has heard of this before. My father just sent me the link and at first glance I thought that some here at the Tavern would find it interesting.

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Felnik

#2
Posted : 5/6/2010 3:33:56 PM

This is great Its weird i was imagining this to exist and here it is, thank you.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

http://vimeo.com/32001208

Thorz

#3
Posted : 5/6/2010 4:47:41 PM

I used this all the time for my calculus class. It works so well and displays step by step on how to do a lot of problems.

"Existence itself may be considered an abyss possessed of no meaning. I do not read this as a pessimistic statement but a declaration of autonomy for my imagination & will and their most beautiful act of bestowing meaning upon existence itself." -- Hakim Bey

Pokey

#4
Posted : 5/7/2010 4:32:26 AM

There is a really excellent talk on TED by the guy responsible for WolframAlpha. Check it out, you won't be disappointed!

http://www.ted.com/talks...eory_of_everything.html

Pokey

benzyme

#5
Posted : 5/7/2010 5:42:26 AM

great for common computational applications, not so great for chemistry nomenclature.
for instance, it may be able to calculate molarity of common reagents like acetic acid solutions, but not for α-Cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid solutions.

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
"Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck

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