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7th November 2009, 03:12pm
#1
by scut_fargus
Remote Woods of Michigan United States
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 3731

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing

just read about this today. Sounds like a brillant ideaAnyone else heard about it?

7th November 2009, 03:54pm
#2
by DPenn
Upper Louisiana Territory United States
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 2651

hmm...interesting but strangely disturbing for some reason.

7th November 2009, 04:05pm
#3
by scut_fargus
Remote Woods of Michigan United States
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 3731

I can see what you mean. I think of it as eliminating google or the middle man and just receiving the info instead of half a million sites

7th November 2009, 04:50pm
#4
by artfizz
South (GMT) +rT United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 8363

Its info comes mainly from one site: Wikipedia.

7th November 2009, 09:31pm
#5
by NM OmarCayenne
United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 12607

Somehow this reminds me of Avery Schreiber's computer bit.

8th November 2009, 05:56am
#6
by artfizz
South (GMT) +rT United Kingdom
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 8363

Me: chess best opening move

WA: Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure how to compute an answer from your input

 

A few things to try:

 

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