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Fog of war?

All kidding aside it's interesting to know that the language can perform these kinds of transformations but I'm not quite sure what my use case would be yet.

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Whenever it gets radically easier to do higher-level things, it usually takes a while for people to understand the possibilities.

We haven't released our cloud platform yet, but if there are particular domains you are interested in, you can poke around http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ to see what we have there. The examples to do with machine learning seems to be popular on http://www.wolfram.com/language/gallery/.

Then teach me. I have no idea what to expect from Alpha, and I've so far only used it as a novelty item or advanced calculator. You can't expect me to 'naturally' speak a new language if you never reveal its vocabulary or grammar. And I can't learn the language intuitively as long as I can't hear it spoken anywhere either.

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