{"id":220,"date":"2009-05-19T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2009\/05\/wolframalpha\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T06:22:00","slug":"wolframalpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2009\/05\/wolframalpha\/","title":{"rendered":">Wolfram|Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>I just ran into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\">Wolfram|Alpha<\/a> site (found it via <a href=\"http:\/\/nyteknik.se\/\">NyTeknik<\/a>). The site is amazing. Try, for instance, to search for a substance: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=caffeine\">caffeine<\/a>. The result not only includes a nice picture of the molecule, but also quite a few facts about the substance.<\/p>\n<p>Looking a molecules is fun, but the man behind W|A was also responsible for Mathematica. So, go ahead, enter a formula: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=sin%28x%29%C2%B2\">sin(x)^2<\/a>. The result includes period, a plot, derivate, integral, but also the steps taken to reach the results. I can imagine one or two maths students using this.<\/p>\n<p>Well, sorry for bugging you with this &#8211; but I was absolutely stunned when I ran into the site. It has earned itself one of my bookmarks!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Update!<\/span> This makes it less attractive: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/article.php?story=20090518204959409\">Groklaw &#8211; Terms of Use: A Real Difference Between Wolfram|Alpha and Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>I just ran into the Wolfram|Alpha site (found it via NyTeknik). The site is amazing. Try, for instance, to search for a substance: caffeine. The result not only includes a nice picture of the molecule, but also quite a few facts about the substance. Looking a molecules is fun, but the man behind W|A was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2009\/05\/wolframalpha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">>Wolfram|Alpha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}