On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:30 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
> On 13 March 2012 13:42, Tom Boothby wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:29 AM, David Kirkby
>> wrote:
>
Two years ago, few would believe that a computer could win Jeopardy,
much less against the best players in recent history.
>>>
On 13 March 2012 13:42, Tom Boothby wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:29 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
>>> Two years ago, few would believe that a computer could win Jeopardy,
>>> much less against the best players in recent history.
>>
>> I'm not sure what "Jeopardy" is in this context.
>>
>> I know
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:29 AM, David Kirkby wrote:
> On 12 March 2012 01:57, Tom Boothby wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
>
>>> I take exception to what he said:
>>>
>>> "It'll probably be related to my goal in the next year or two of making
>>> Mathematica definitiv
On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 9:29:01 PM UTC+8, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>
> I'm not sure whta "Jeopardy" is in this context.
>
> I know nobody thought computers would beat humans at chess, but they
> beat the top grandmasters on a regular basis.
>
> But in some ways chess is much easier, as a compute
On 12 March 2012 01:57, Tom Boothby wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
>> I take exception to what he said:
>>
>> "It'll probably be related to my goal in the next year or two of making
>> Mathematica definitively the world's easiest to learn language..."
>
> The man's go
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
wrote:
> On 03/11/12 05:00 PM, Volker Braun wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, March 10, 2012 3:59:24 PM UTC-5, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> HARD
>>> C++, Mathematica
>>>
>> The Mathematica language is just difficult because its ugly and uses weird
On 03/11/12 05:00 PM, Volker Braun wrote:
On Saturday, March 10, 2012 3:59:24 PM UTC-5, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
HARD
C++, Mathematica
The Mathematica language is just difficult because its ugly and uses weird
operators (hello /. operator). But in terms of difficulty its a far cry
from C++ whi
On Saturday, March 10, 2012 3:59:24 PM UTC-5, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>
> HARD
> C++, Mathematica
>
The Mathematica language is just difficult because its ugly and uses weird
operators (hello /. operator). But in terms of difficulty its a far cry
from C++ which is really three totally different T
On 03/10/12 06:27 PM, William Stein wrote:
On Saturday, March 10, 2012, David Kirkby wrote:
On 10 March 2012 13:53, rjf wrote:
If you want a free open-source implementation of the language (without
most
of the mathematical commands)
you can use the one I wrote in Lisp. Mock MMA..
It is n
On Saturday, March 10, 2012, David Kirkby wrote:
> On 10 March 2012 13:53, rjf wrote:
>>
>> If you want a free open-source implementation of the language (without
most
>> of the mathematical commands)
>> you can use the one I wrote in Lisp. Mock MMA..
>>
>> It is not a simple language. One does
On 03/ 6/12 03:50 AM, kcrisman wrote:
Perhaps slightly OT, but see the very first question (one I've been
wondering for a while) about open-sourcing early Mma versions:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfram_mathematica_nks_wolframalpha/
Thanks for the link. I like th
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