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zero-impact
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 Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 10:42 am Post subject: 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
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| Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 11:36 am Post subject: 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
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| Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 11:55 am Post subject: 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
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| Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 2:08 pm Post subject: RE:Wolfram|Alpha |
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Smooth.
Nice inquiry by the way. |
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ecookman
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OneOffDriveByPoster
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| Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: 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
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| Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 6:35 pm Post subject: 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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DtY
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 10:52 pm Post subject: 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]
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:59 am Post subject: Re: RE:Wolfram|Alpha |
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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. |
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DtY
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:46 am Post subject: RE:Wolfram|Alpha |
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Oh damn, I googled entripy to make sure it was right, and google didn't complain  |
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