Wolfram Alpha sucks so hard now. it can't even handle rearranging basic formulae that I fed it without issue just a couple years back.
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Phil M0OFX
In response to this post@gsuberland I thought it was just me...! I was trying to get it to do a wavelength/frequency conversion the other day and it barfed hard. Ended up looking for a dedicated converter.
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Xavier Knol :verified_paw: :donor:
In response to this post@gsuberland it has really gone down hill the past couple of years unfortunatly.
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Ret
In response to this post@gsuberland haven’t used it in a while. Is that because of “AI” or just general worsening?
@ret they've gone all-in on LLMs so I would presume that that's a significant part of the problem.
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In response to this postin fact it can't even handle basic trig calculations half the time.
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zaicurity
In response to this post@gsuberland Damn, that thing got me through half of university. Actually just thought about it yesterday while wondering what our equivalent to ChatGPT would’ve been back then.
@zaicurity ironically the reason it sucks is probably down to them inserting LLMs into the query stack.
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multioculate
In response to this post@gsuberland I have been slowly retraining my muscle memory to use `numbat` for unit conversions, but alas I don't have a local computer algebra system of anywhere near the same quality (recommendations welcome!)
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Clifton Royston
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Lemme guess - they've added "AI" to improve it, right?
@CliftonR yes, from what I've read
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