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Wolfram|Alpha
Author:  zero-impact [ Sat May 16, 2009 10:42 am ]
Post subject:  Wolfram|Alpha
Anyone else here watch the launching of Wolfram Alpha last night?
Pretty interesting stuff. It aims to make all of society's combined knowledge computable.

Check it out http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Author:  SNIPERDUDE [ Sat May 16, 2009 11:36 am ]
Post subject:  RE:Wolfram|Alpha
wow, sounds awesome.
just to see what would happen, I typed in

"what is pi to 1000 decimal places?"

and it gave me an answer. Didn't see that coming, I thought it would be much stricter on the syntax.
Author:  Prabhakar Ragde [ Sat May 16, 2009 11:55 am ]
Post subject:  RE:Wolfram|Alpha
I tried:

Who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep?

and it gave me:

Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.
Author:  SNIPERDUDE [ Sat May 16, 2009 2:08 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:Wolfram|Alpha
Smooth.
Nice inquiry by the way.
Author:  ecookman [ Sat May 16, 2009 3:18 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:Wolfram|Alpha
it knows too much...we must kill it >_>


http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=the+answer+to+life+
Author:  OneOffDriveByPoster [ Sun May 17, 2009 6:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Wolfram|Alpha
Don't worry (even if it turns into SkyNet). It won't hurt Ontario (the province). If it wants "Ontario", it'll just get a bunch of cities named Ontario in the states.
Author:  Dan [ Sun May 17, 2009 6:35 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:Wolfram|Alpha
Sreaching for "Are you SkyNet?" returns "Additional functionality for this topic is under development..." and asks you to leave your e-mail to be notifed when it is ready >_>

Tho more seriously, it's an intresting idea but it seems to have alot of issues escaping text and the results are a bit random for some searchs in terms of what data you get back for the query.
Author:  BigBear [ Sun May 17, 2009 7:17 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:Wolfram|Alpha
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/what-is-google-squared-it-is-how-google-will-crush-wolfram-alpha-exclusive-video/
Author:  DtY [ Tue May 19, 2009 10:52 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:Wolfram|Alpha
How can we reverse entripy?
>> Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.
Kinda like multivac...

what is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?
>> 42
Okay, good, it knows that Smile

How are you?
>> I am doing well, thank you.
It's alive!

How does CAD compare to USD?
>> 86.40cent (US cents)
It then goes on to display a chart of how it compared in the past. That right there is pretty amazing.

I couldn't actually get answers for most of my questions, it doesn't seem to respod well to yes/no answers. Can't wait to see this when it gets better!
Author:  [Gandalf] [ Wed May 20, 2009 12:59 am ]
Post subject:  Re: RE:Wolfram|Alpha
Interesting, but somehow I envision Google crushinating it.
DtY @ 2009-05-19, 10:52 pm wrote:
How can we reverse entripy?
>> Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.
Kinda like multivac...

It helps to spell entropy right. Smile
Author:  DtY [ Wed May 20, 2009 6:46 am ]
Post subject:  RE:Wolfram|Alpha
Oh damn, I googled entripy to make sure it was right, and google didn't complain Sad

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