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or so says Wolfram Alpha
search WA for "who started wwii"
search WA for "who started wwii"
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Oh, it's only you. I though Ned was back.
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Rufus beat me to it
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The winners get to write the history Ecthy.Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
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By the way, Wolfram Alpha rocks.
Try doing any unit conversion.
The population in the year 20000 is projected to be 133.5 trillion.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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It seems like a good idea, but I doubt its abilities.
What they're aiming for is one of those holy grail type of things, i.e. a computer that can understand plain English queries and find, aggregate and manipulate the relevant information to get a reasonable answer.
They're going to have a lot of the common questions answered, but are going to fail miserably on any of the less common ones.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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It's a fascinating sand box. It's not meant to cook you breakfast.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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That pop estimate gives a doubling time of 1262 years, assuming constant exponential growth.
What a silly underestimate.
12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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Wolfram Alpha is such a silly thing. I imagine amthematics is its strong point though, and seems like it would be the easiest component to implementComment
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The formatting and graphing of equations alone is well worth the bookmark.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Wolfram Alpha
Seems pretty cool. Obviously not a Google replacement, but pretty useful. Inputs are pretty intuitive. For example:
Works well as a calculator (my guesses for inputs worked on the first try)
http://www91.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fourier(1)
http://www91.wolframalpha.com/input/...27(t)%3D-w+x(t)
http://www91.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=d(x^2+tanh(x))%2Fdx
But it has other semi-useful functions. 'Specially like the time series:
Some other searches don't have time series:
The non-calculator capability still needs to be worked on. It's missing a lot of data. Murder rate. Government revenues. Porn industry."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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WOLFRAM(tm)!!!!!! "alpha"Comment
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There is already a (poorly named) thread on this subject. It's mergin' time.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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I prefer http://www.wolframsbeta.com/ , which has the answer to all questions. None of that "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.".http://www.hardware-wiki.com - A wiki about computers, with focus on Linux support.Comment
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What's really cool about this is the supercomputer they're using to do all of this. I think it's the 66th fastest in the world."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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