This video is insane. If Alpha can do the stuff in this video, it's a revolutionary upgrade to human thought.

I don't think I'm exaggerating. Making this available to the world for free will probably make as much of a difference to human thought and progress as Google has, if not more.

Repeat post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607532

This ain't no search engine. It's something else altogether.

To my fellow beta-testers (I'm sure some of you are here): have any of you found an actual productive use for Alpha? Scratch that, has anyone here used it "in anger", even once? I've been trying, so far, to no avail. (I have a copy of Mathematica, so use cases which intersect with that app's existing features are not of interest to me.)

This is incredible if it's built on New Kind of Science (game of life, etc - see Hackers by Steven Levy), but if it's just entered by hand, then it's merely useful.

One thing I can forgive is that you have to learn what you can do, you can't just sit down and use it. You need to read the manual.

I also totally dug his English accent, except for the term 'math' which show's he's mostly American. ;-)

This is incredible. What I'd really like to see is something like this hooked up to a top quality voice recognition system and voice synthesis. So when I'm driving, or walking down the street, or working at my whiteboard, or whatever, I can answer those dumb little questions that always pop into my head.

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Is it a bad sign for Wolfram if the screencast shows me "Loading Controls: NaN%" in Chrome?