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AJAX Version of Mathematica Coming

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the this-is-not-mathematics-this-is-theology dept.

stoolpigeon writes "The O'Reilly School of Technology is teaming up with Wolfram Research to provide on-line math courses using an AJAX version of Mathematica. O'Reilly has posted an and interview with Scott Gray, the director of OST, that has more details on the program (named Hilbert after David Hilbert) itself as well as the classes they will be offering."

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  1. XMLHttpRequest by milsoRgen · · Score: 2, Funny

    I for one haven't heard the term, "AJAX", nearly enough.

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    I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
    1. Re:XMLHttpRequest by turgid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Open fire! All weapons. Send out rocket AJAX to bring back his body.

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      Stick Men
  2. Ah, splendid! by wattrlz · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was just worrying about how to solve the problem of campus networks not having enough http traffic these days.

  3. Re:Matlab by Thelasko · · Score: 2, Funny

    fprintf('I knew there had to be a MATLAB joke in there somewhere\n')

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    One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
  4. Re:Hmm... by garett_spencley · · Score: 4, Funny

    I love AJAX too. It's the only thing that gets those pesky sweat stains out after long hours of developing asynchronous web applications. It also works well for getting rid of Java.

  5. The Hilbert Program by kabloom · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought Godel proved that the Hilbert Program was impossible. Now they want to write it in AJAX?

    1. Re:The Hilbert Program by kalidasa · · Score: 2, Funny

      You know you are WAY too much of a geek when you get that joke.

  6. Re:Are you kidding? by chakan2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    just upload your notebook and let Wolfram's cluster crunch it for you And for Wolfram to very easily crunch your work into a New Kind of Science 2: Electric Boogaloo
  7. Parody by locokamil · · Score: 5, Funny

    The marketing meeting parody almost writes itself: "Guys, how can we possibly make our slow, bloated software even slower and even more bloated while making it buzzword-compliant?"