Re: Looking for more Mathematica online user groups/forums
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- Subject: [mg98922] Re: Looking for more Mathematica online user groups/forums
- From: stephen.a.mccormack at baesystems.com
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:09:00 -0400 (EDT)
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On Apr 21, 5:08 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir... at onetel.net> wrote: > meitnik wrote: > > WRI, > > > Since Home edition offers me only 30 days tech support and I am not a > > student around other Mathematica using students on a campus. And > > buying expensive books does only cover so much (And many are outdated > > or does not cover areas outside of math like the Frontend), where on > > the internet do I find help thats more real time? This group has been > > very helpful, but I want more rapid turn around time, and someone to > > teach why some code is good and mine is bad so I learn from mistakes . > > And a big thanks for the few who has taught me well. :-) > > > I do find it strange there is not a more active WRI collection of > > people part of a tech support forum somewhere. A whiteboard version of > > the FE to aid in support could be a good direction. Collaborative > > editing FE in real time somehow? How about a Home Ed users forum on > > WRI site?? > > > Or perhaps allow Home Edition users email support; if it is so, be > > clear it is so and how long the turn around time for a reply. Or > > encourage local universities to create local Mathematica support > > groups. > > > Mathematics is a social activity as much as any other creative one; > > helping each other is a great way to enjoy learning. > > > Andrew, seeking some shoulders to stand on ;-) > > The newsgroup sci.math.symbolic does not have the expertise of > comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica, but there are many people (some WRI > employees) who know Mathematica and will respond to requests there. > > You might get a certain professor moaning about Mathematica questions > there, but people tend to ignore him. > > Sometimes there is spam there which seems to go in bursts, then stops > for a while. > > Within a 30 day period, I somewhat doubt you will be needing too many > difficult questions answered, so sci.math.symbolic might be a useful > complimentary group. > > Be aware, if you multi-post (copy your message to both sci.math.symbolic > and comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica at the exact same time, so there are > two newsgroups in the 'To:' field) the message will NOT appear on > sci.math.symbolic until Steve has approved it. I've never understood the > logic of that!! Since the newsgroup sci.math.symbolic is unmoderated, > why should a message copied to both have to wait for approval? If you > want to send to both newsgroups, do it to one, then do it to the second. > > [My approval has nothing to do with sci.math.symbolic. If a message > does not appear there, it has nothing to do with me - Steve C.]- Hide = quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - I wonder if there are any plans for Wolfram Alpha to be able to accept a non-trivial textural/mathematical description of a sub-problem, then "think" about it and finally return a solution in the form of Mathematica code ? Version 2.0 would return optimized Mathematica code. This may seem ambitious but isn't that what the folks at Wolfram do ? http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/03/05/wolframalpha-is-coming/