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here is a new type of search engine, I found out about, on todays
morning TV show IT section.

Google searches, then produces links to follow.

wolframalpha produces facts and figures direct.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
a work in progress.

http://www61.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
is the on line demo package, which will help explain it.

Don...


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Don McKenzie wrote:
here is a new type of search engine, I found out about, on todays
morning TV show IT section.

Google searches, then produces links to follow.

wolframalpha produces facts and figures direct.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
a work in progress.

http://www61.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
is the on line demo package, which will help explain it.

Don...
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Yes, been having a play with it today, very nice.
Some engineering examples:
http://www16.wolframalpha.com/examples/Engineering.html

It will even solve tough questions like :
"how much wood a woodchuck chuck"
"The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?"
"How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?"
and find the atomic structure of caffeine:
http://www25.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=caffeine

Dave.

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David L. Jones wrote:

It will even solve tough questions like :
"how much wood a woodchuck chuck"
"The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?"
"How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?"
and find the atomic structure of caffeine:
http://www25.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=caffeine
Click to expand...
a few more:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+old+are+you
<http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+licks+does+it+take+to+get+to+the+center+of+a+tootsie+roll+lollipop%3F>
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=wolfram+alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=airspeed+of+an+unladen+African+swallow

then I tried a bit of sensible usage such as:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=microchip+atmel
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tabcorp+tatts
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=now

Don...



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Don McKenzie wrote:
David L. Jones wrote:

It will even solve tough questions like :
"how much wood a woodchuck chuck"
"The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and
Everything?"
"How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?"
and find the atomic structure of caffeine:
http://www25.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=caffeine

a few more:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+old+are+you
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+licks+does+it+take+to+get+to+the+center+of+a+tootsie+roll+lollipop%3F

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=wolfram+alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=airspeed+of+an+unladen+African+swallow

then I tried a bit of sensible usage such as:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=microchip+atmel
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tabcorp+tatts
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=now

Don...
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I asked it what was the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
And it gave the answer 42.
 
On Tue, 19 May 2009 15:17:00 +1000, Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:

here is a new type of search engine, I found out about, on todays
morning TV show IT section.

Google searches, then produces links to follow.

wolframalpha produces facts and figures direct.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
a work in progress.

http://www61.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
is the on line demo package, which will help explain it.
Click to expand...
I gave it a couple of tries yesterday and suspect - as a work in progress - that
it needs a LOT more work. Wanted a straight fact (numerical) answer to a
question, and it led me off at one helluva tangent without ever getting close to
the right subject.

I hope I'm wrong, but to me it seems like another cuil.
 
In article <4a129c26$1_7@news.peopletelecom.com.au>,
Davo <Dave@gmail.com> writes:
|>
|> I asked it what was the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
|> And it gave the answer 42.

Try asking it about 1.21 gigawatts.

Rainer
 
rebel wrote:

I gave it a couple of tries yesterday and suspect - as a work in progress - that
it needs a LOT more work. Wanted a straight fact (numerical) answer to a
question, and it led me off at one helluva tangent without ever getting close to
the right subject.

I hope I'm wrong, but to me it seems like another cuil.
Click to expand...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/faqs.html
has a heap of info

Is Wolfram|Alpha a search engine?
No. It's a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing
computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching
the web and returning links.

The Scope of Wolfram|Alpha

What can I ask Wolfram|Alpha?

Eventually you should be able to ask it about essentially any kind of
systematic factual knowledge. You can get an idea of what it covers
today by looking at the Examples. You can track its progress through the
Blog and the Community area.
How can I tell whether Wolfram|Alpha covers a particular area?

The easiest thing to do is just to try a simple case of it. You can also
browse the Examples, or ask on the Community forum.
What are Wolfram|Alpha's main limitations?

It can only know things that are known, and are somehow public. It only
deals with facts, not opinions. It limits the computation time for each
query. And, of course, it's in continual development—and always will be.
In what areas is Wolfram|Alpha strongest?

We've first emphasized areas where computation or mathematics have
traditionally had a more significant role, or where knowledge is more
readily quantitative. But we're steadily working through all the content
areas covered by reference libraries, handbooks, and much more.


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On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:01:35 +1000, Don McKenzie wrote:

What can I ask Wolfram|Alpha?

Eventually you should be able to ask it about essentially any kind of
systematic factual knowledge.
Click to expand...
It has a really long way to go on answering warcraft questions.
 
terryc wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:01:35 +1000, Don McKenzie wrote:

What can I ask Wolfram|Alpha?

Eventually you should be able to ask it about essentially any kind of
systematic factual knowledge.

It has a really long way to go on answering warcraft questions.
Click to expand...
Couldn't even understand "how long is longest recorded human penis" , so
what use is it ?

geoff
 
geoff wrote:
terryc wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:01:35 +1000, Don McKenzie wrote:

What can I ask Wolfram|Alpha?

Eventually you should be able to ask it about essentially any kind
of systematic factual knowledge.

It has a really long way to go on answering warcraft questions.

Couldn't even understand "how long is longest recorded human penis" ,
so what use is it ?
Click to expand...
So don't complain, contribute:
http://www75.wolframalpha.com/participate/factsfigures.html

Dave.

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geoff wrote:

Couldn't even understand "how long is longest recorded human penis" , so
what use is it ?
Click to expand...
I asked "how do I download porn faster?"

Its response was: "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input"

I get that a lot.
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It's kinda funny

I typed in a "computer" and it said it's 'periodical'. May be (i.e. IEEE
periodical) but I kinda expected a different answer.

I typed in "Wolfram" and it said that Stephen Wolfram was born in 1959 and
is currently 49 years old - some strange math or a practical joke?


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StoneThrower wrote:

I typed in "Wolfram" and it said that Stephen Wolfram was born in 1959
and is currently 49 years old - some strange math or a practical joke?
Click to expand...
no, a fact.
he is the owner of the site, and the idea.

try:
$1AUD USD (or currency of your choice)

I like the history graph.

Don...


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In aus.electronics,comp.arch.embedded,comp.robotics.misc, On Tue, 19
May 2009 17:30:35 +1000, Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=airspeed+of+an+unladen+African+swallow
Click to expand...
That's odd, as this comes back with an answer:

http://www63.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=airspeed+of+an+unladen+European+swallow

But little that made sense came from this:

http://www63.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=when+is+the+singularity

It looks like it'll be a while longer before we're all cast into
the gorge.
 
David L. Jones wrote:
geoff wrote:
terryc wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:01:35 +1000, Don McKenzie wrote:

What can I ask Wolfram|Alpha?

Eventually you should be able to ask it about essentially any kind
of systematic factual knowledge.

It has a really long way to go on answering warcraft questions.

Couldn't even understand "how long is longest recorded human penis" ,
so what use is it ?

So don't complain, contribute:
http://www75.wolframalpha.com/participate/factsfigures.html

Dave.
Click to expand...
It couldn't understand the question.

geoff
 
On Thu, 21 May 2009 08:09:15 +1000, Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:

StoneThrower wrote:

I typed in "Wolfram" and it said that Stephen Wolfram was born in 1959
and is currently 49 years old - some strange math or a practical joke?

no, a fact.
he is the owner of the site, and the idea.
Click to expand...
And according to Some Other Internet Repository Of General
Knowledge, his birthday is August 29, so he won't have his 50th
birthday until later this year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram

Thus, if What I Read On The Internet is to be believed, Wolfram is
indeed 49 years old.

Perhaps Wolfram's greatest contribution to humanity is the reviews
inspired by his book "A New Kind of Science." You can read them all on
the Amazon site for the book, but here's a classic I like to go back
to:
http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~eclark/ANKOS_humor.html

try:
$1AUD USD (or currency of your choice)

I like the history graph.

Don...
Click to expand...
 
On 2009-05-20, StoneThrower <digi_64-public> wrote:
I typed in "Wolfram" and it said that Stephen Wolfram was born in 1959 and
is currently 49 years old - some strange math or a practical joke?
Click to expand...
Presumably he was born after the 20th of May, and hasn't yet had his
50th birthday.
 
On May 20, 5:35 pm, "StoneThrower" <digi_64-public[removethis]
@yahoo.com> wrote:
...
I typed in "Wolfram" and it said that Stephen Wolfram was born in 1959 and
is currently 49 years old - some strange math or a practical joke?
Click to expand...
I typed in "what is an off-by-one-error ?", and got
"Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input."

See ya, Dave
 
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