Disappointing that the top voted 'questions' in these AMAs end up being scandalous statements and conjectures while the actual questions get pushed down to the bottom.
I'm more disappointed in the "I'm an X major and I love you so much!" comments. I'd like more questions regarding Alpha pro. It's a tempting purchase for a lot of people, myself included, but so much of it seems like nifty stuff I'll play around with from time to time, but never actually use.
That's my question, HattoriHanzo is my name on Reddit. I tried reaching him a year ago when that happened. But sadly, nothing came of it. It's not my fault everyone else wants to know :/ I still use and suggest other to use WA against my better judgement.
Looking at the Android app page, they may have gotten confused because the screenshot has WA in it. That is, it's using your app to input math symbols into WA. That may have triggered a simple policy of "issue takedown for anything that is not ours that has WA in it."
The app Stephen listed isn't mine. You won't find it in the market because it's "suspended". It was literally a fork of the system keyboard with the symbols page having math related symbols.
Worse. According to the Market blurb, it goes further:
"Bonus:
Launcher icon opens a quick dialog box with input box to query the WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine and launch your web browser.
*Wolfram Alpha is a trademark of Wolfram Alpha LLC"
Somewhat unrelated, but does anyone know the cost of the Wolfram Alpha API is after the free 2000 calls? No website seems to give the pricing (except for the old 2009 pricing scheme), and the Wolfram Alpha API site just says to contact them -- quite frustrating (yes I sent an email, but got no response)
I think it's dependent on the type of project you do, for instance a school's math program whatever might get charged less where a fortune 500's x project gets charged more.
I often wonder what kind of thought goes through a person's head before they do an IaMa on reddit. You need to be either crazy, stupid, crazy stupid, or Neil Degrasse Tyson to think "Hey this is gonna be awesome!"
I disagree vehemently. The vast majority of AMAs by celebs go very, very well. There've been a few well-known trainwrecks (I'm looking at you, Woody Harrelson), but for the most part they're quite successful and a good way to engage with fans.
I used to subscribe to IaMa a while back and yes they were and to some extent are still a fantastic opportunity for the unwashed masses to quiz celebrities of all walks of fame.
Still considering what happened to Woody, I would think that incident would give a few celebs and PR managers a moment of pause to think "Is this really worth the risk?"
On the other hand, generally the dark side comes out of Reddit only when people are obviously (ab)using r/IaMa soley to benefit their current PR campaigns.
The failure of Harrelson's AMA was in a mismatch of expectations between him/his PR people and the reddit community. Whereas the longstanding tradition on reddit is a back-and-forth dialogue between the users and the OP, with the users deciding which conversations gain prominence, Harrelson/his PR person approached it like a late-night talk show.
Honestly, as harshly as reddit came down on Harrelson for that, it was entirely avoidable with even the most basic preliminary research. It's hard to feel bad for Harrelson, and it's similarly difficult to imagine that savvy PR types would be put off by the response. It's pretty easy to see what leads to a successful AMA, and not particularly difficult to prime your client for it.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=planes%20above
Ran the query and looked at the sky like an idiot, only birds! And it's pretty clear today, too. Can the flight schedules be that off?
Also learned how many calories a cubic light-year of milk chocolate is: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfr...