{"id":1945,"date":"2009-07-09T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2023-04-04T10:04:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:04:43","slug":"wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/09\/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user-interfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfram Alpha and Hubristic User Interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html\">Mencius Moldbug<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html\"><p>WA is two things: a set of specialized, hand-built databases and data visualization apps, each of which would be cool, the set of which almost deserves the hype; and an intelligent UI, which translates an unstructured natural-language query into a call to one of these tools. The apps are useful and fine and good. The natural-language UI is a monstrous encumbrance, which needs to be taken out back and shot.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mencius Moldbug: WA is two things: a set of specialized, hand-built databases and data visualization apps, each of which would be cool, the set of which almost deserves the hype; and an intelligent UI, which translates an unstructured natural-language query into a call to one of these tools. The apps are useful and fine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-04-04T14:04:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"bf347d3d-2259-4110-8110-07921f68064c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-04-04T14:04:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AvzR9PSJZQRCBEAeSH2gGTA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,2363],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-web","tag-wolfram-alpha"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38950,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/38950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}