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Re:Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball... by sillysaurus2 on Sunday February 02, 2014 @09:39PM (#7168520)
There's a Mathematica 10 now, already? Interesting.

I'm still a happy 8 user, myself. Is there much reason to upgrade?

It'd probably be good for them to pay more attention to backwards compatibility...

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Re:Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball... by taliesinb on Sunday February 02, 2014 @10:33PM (#7168664)
10 has Association expressions [1], which are a huge language addition (and long overdue). Seems there is some synchrony with Erlang on that front!

The features I'm most excited about in 10 (disclosure: my team is working on some of these):

[2] String, XML, file templating

[3] Hands-free machine learning

[4] Entity and EntityValue: semantic "hooks" to represent real world entities

[5] Dataset, a general data modelling and query framework.

Also, DateObject, TimeObject, interaction with external processes, multiple undo, a large number of updated data sources, the ExternalService "meta-api", device connections, time series stuff, GeoGraphics, and a long list of no less worthy features.

[1] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Associations.htm...

[2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/WorkingWithTempl...

[3] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/MachineLearning....

[4] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Entity.html

[5] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dataset.html

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Re:Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball... by nswanberg on Monday February 03, 2014 @02:27PM (#7172882)
Nice to see all the WolframAlpha features being brought over. I'd completely missed Entity and Dataset.

Any chance you'll be including the templating features in the RPi version?

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Re:Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball... by taliesinb on Monday February 03, 2014 @03:59PM (#7173443)
Yup, although there is a bit of design change from the templating in the RPi version.
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Re:Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball... by ballstothewalls on Sunday February 02, 2014 @10:02PM (#7168566)
I think he is confused. Wolfram's site only has Mathematica 9 listed
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Re:Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball... by prakashk on Sunday February 02, 2014 @11:59PM (#7168950)
> I think he is confused.

You don't mean that the GP (taliesinb) is confused, do you?. He works for Wolfram Research, developing Mathematica.

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Re:Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball... by ballstothewalls on Monday February 03, 2014 @12:43AM (#7169062)
That is what I meant, but I guess I look like the fool now. I still don't see that Mathematica 10 has been released, but I guess it is close.
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Re:Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball... by nswanberg on Monday February 03, 2014 @02:39PM (#7172916)
It hasn't been released, but you can effectively get it on a Raspberry Pi: http://wolfram.com/raspi
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Re:Perfectly centered break of a perfectly aligned pool ball... by Steuard on Monday February 03, 2014 @11:30AM (#7171534)
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that v. 10 has not yet been released but is in common use internally at Wolfram.
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