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First Look at Wolfram Alpha's Impressive (and Fun) Knowledge Computation - sarcasticsteve - 05-16-2009
Lifehacker.com did an interesting review of the new knowledgeable search engine on the block, Wolfram|Alpha. I did some of her suggested tests and came up with these results:
I have a life expectancy of 76.26 years
I am exactly 7512 days old today
My mother has a longer life expectancy than I do...(82.37yrs)
According to the statistics, I will die on January 23rd, 2065 at 9:16PM
Apparently it was around 79 degrees and partly cloudy the day I was born
Any other fun statistics you guys get a kick out of?
Lifehacker.com
-Steve
Re: First Look at Wolfram Alpha's Impressive (and Fun) Knowledge Computation - fyre - 05-16-2009
This honestly doesn't seem that useful to me. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
What is the meaning of life?
How many roads must a man walk down?
Re: First Look at Wolfram Alpha's Impressive (and Fun) Knowledge Computation - sarcasticsteve - 05-16-2009
(05-16-2009, 08:40 PM)fyre link Wrote: This honestly doesn't seem that useful to me. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
The results to some important questions...
What is the meaning of life?
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+many+roads+must+a+man+walk+down%3F
The fact that it quoted Douglas Adams cements this as amazing. Besides, it isn't really designed to be used like Google, Yahoo, etc. WA is meant more if you have some obscure trivia question, doing research (would be great for comparing things for example) or for help with complicated math.
Math Example
Some random info about the plane I work on
Re: First Look at Wolfram Alpha's Impressive (and Fun) Knowledge Computation - at0m - 05-17-2009
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+neuilly+sur+seine+april+16,+1984
No extended weather data, boo
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=April+16,+1984
CREEPY because it extrapolated and gave me US holidays and the daylight in Richmond, VA where I'm browsing it from :O
Re: First Look at Wolfram Alpha's Impressive (and Fun) Knowledge Computation - sarcasticsteve - 05-17-2009
Its really not that hard to pinpoint your location if they have your IP Address. I bet if you used a proxy and routed through England, you would get major English holidays etc.
Re: First Look at Wolfram Alpha's Impressive (and Fun) Knowledge Computation - at0m - 05-17-2009
(05-17-2009, 04:08 PM)Sarcastic Steve link Wrote: Its really not that hard to pinpoint your location if they have your IP Address. I bet if you used a proxy and routed through England, you would get major English holidays etc.I know, but I've rarely seen productive use of a reverse IP lookup like that. The only other ones that come to mind are those stupid browser-aware sigs and sex ads that say "meet single women in richmond!" or whatever.
Re: First Look at Wolfram Alpha's Impressive (and Fun) Knowledge Computation - sarcasticsteve - 05-17-2009
They were bound to find a use for reverse lookup eventually...wait...you mean those women who asked for my credit card numbers weren't real?!
Re: First Look at Wolfram Alpha's Impressive (and Fun) Knowledge Computation - Badgerman of DOOM - 05-18-2009
The thing won't take my first name as a given name.