On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:57:48 -0700, Stpehen Black wrote: >I could swear someone mentioned this new search engine recently, >but the archive shows nothing (here we go again).
Must be the mild cognitive impairment associated with dementia that you're so worried about. :-) The post you're referring to is the following: |Subject: In your spare time... |From: "DeVolder Carol L" <[email protected]> |Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 20:42:57 -0500 |X-Message-Number: 16 | |Try this: | |http://www.wolframalpha.com/ >Anyway, I've been briefly playing with it (http://www.wolframalpha.com/). >It seems impressive, but I wasn't sure what it was good for, and all I >found useful was to use it as a metric converter. It's "geek" value (NOTE: "geek" as in circus sideshow) is probably its greatest utility. >Now _The Chronicle of Higher Education_ tells us what it's all about (and >it is impressive). It's at http://chronicle.com/free/2009/06/19910n.htm >(and the article is free--says so, doesn't it?). > >Wonder if Wolfie does ANOVA? If you enter either "general linear model" or "multiple regression" or "analysis of variance", it does find anything. Click through to the page with "statistics" and you get the following: http://www10.wolframalpha.com/examples/Statistics.html I think underwhelming is the word I would use to describe these capabilities. Perhaps it has other noteworthy capabilities elsewhere but it seems to me that Excel's data analysis functions provides more tools (standard disclaimers about Excel). -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
