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		<title>On Intelligent Interfaces</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mencius Moldbug on why Wolfram Alpha shouldn&#8217;t have a natural language-based interface:
You know that when you type &#8220;two cups of flour and two eggs&#8221; (which now works) you are looking for a Nutrition Facts label. It is only Stephen Wolfram&#8217;s giant electronic brain which has to run ten million lines of code to figure this out. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mencius Moldbug on why Wolfram Alpha shouldn&#8217;t have a natural language-based interface:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>You</em> know that when you type &#8220;two cups of flour and two eggs&#8221; (which now <a href="http://www82.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=two+cups+of+flour+and+two+eggs">works</a>) you are looking for a Nutrition Facts label. It is only Stephen Wolfram&#8217;s giant electronic brain which has to run ten million lines of code to figure this out. Inside your <em>own</em> brain, it is written on glowing letters across your forehead.</p>
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<p><a title="external link" href="http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html">Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces</a></p>
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