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zero-impact

Sat May 16, 2009 10:42 am


Wolfram|Alpha

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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/


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SNIPERDUDE

Sat May 16, 2009 11:36 am


RE:Wolfram|Alpha

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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.


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Prabhakar Ragde

Sat May 16, 2009 11:55 am


RE:Wolfram|Alpha

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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.


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SNIPERDUDE

Sat May 16, 2009 2:08 pm


RE:Wolfram|Alpha

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Smooth.
Nice inquiry by the way.


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ecookman

Sat May 16, 2009 3:18 pm


RE:Wolfram|Alpha

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it knows too much...we must kill it >_>


http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=the+answer+to+life+


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OneOffDriveByPoster

Sun May 17, 2009 6:24 pm


Re: Wolfram|Alpha

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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.


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Dan

Sun May 17, 2009 6:35 pm


RE:Wolfram|Alpha

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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.


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BigBear

Sun May 17, 2009 7:17 pm


RE:Wolfram|Alpha

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/12/what-is-google-squared-it-is-how-google-will-crush-wolfram-alpha-exclusive-video/


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DtY

Tue May 19, 2009 10:52 pm


RE:Wolfram|Alpha

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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 :)

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!


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[Gandalf]

Wed May 20, 2009 12:59 am


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Interesting, but somehow I envision Google crushinating it.
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. :)


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DtY

Wed May 20, 2009 6:46 am


RE:Wolfram|Alpha

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Oh damn, I googled entripy to make sure it was right, and google didn't complain :(