Ask HN: Where are the good search engines for mathematical formulas?

46 points
1/21/1970
3 days ago
by lo0dot0

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johnea

Where are the good search engines, for anything?

As the push to force users onto LLMs, search has plummeted in effectively finding relevant pages. And not just goggle.

Why isn't anyone applying LLMs to interpreting the semantic meaning of the search query, and finding pages that closely match?

7 minutes ago

throwawayffffas

6 hours ago

recursivecaveat

The encyclopedia of integer sequences can be quite useful: https://oeis.org/

6 hours ago

davidcox143

There’s an awesome hard copy book of these: https://oeis.org/book.html

3 hours ago

infinito25

+1 to wolfram alpha. But just like Chegg, I thought wolfram alpha would be harshly affected by the AI disruption.

I used it a lot in college but never since. Are current college folks still using it?

5 hours ago

throawayonthe

sure are

3 hours ago

jll29

Slightly related: https://oeis.org

5 hours ago

wasabi991011

If the formula generates an integer sequence, then searching that sequence on OEIS should give a lot of good information.

6 hours ago

opengrass

Wolfram Alpha

7 hours ago

chewbaxxa

ChatGPT and family has been effective for me, even to connect equations I’m familiar with to areas I hadn’t encountered before.

4 hours ago

drnick1

Claude

6 hours ago