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dhe95
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1213 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 01:16:43
May 16 2009 01:11 GMT
#1
I've just been trying it out since they have just released it and now they're showing a live stream of it, and it seems very very basic. In case you don't know, wolfram alpha is said to be as big as google, if not bigger

It seems to just look for some keywords in your search and answer basic questions. It's very good at math though.

Try it out @ http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=

EDIT: it seems that it wasn't officially released yet, but someone leaked this link and it does work

poor newb
Profile Joined April 2004
United States1879 Posts
May 16 2009 01:28 GMT
#2
seems to be good for searching for facts, more of a rival for wikipedia than google
How do you mine minerals?
omninmo
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
2349 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 01:30:59
May 16 2009 01:28 GMT
#3
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seriously, this thing is awesome. but its not a search engine. its a computational knowledge engine
DoX.)
Profile Joined December 2008
Singapore6164 Posts
May 16 2009 01:30 GMT
#4
Doesn't know who is SlayerS_BoxeR.
jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
May 16 2009 02:01 GMT
#5
Nice! Some really nice commands for mathematics.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/Math.html
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jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
May 16 2009 02:23 GMT
#6
Try typing your date of birth and it will tell you weekday, how many days you have lived etc
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aznmathfreak
Profile Joined March 2009
United States148 Posts
May 16 2009 02:31 GMT
#7
On May 16 2009 11:01 jtan wrote:
Nice! Some really nice commands for mathematics.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/Math.html


Haha considering that it's made by the same guy that made mathematica, it's not surprising that the site would have really nice math support. From the few queries that I've tried though, it's actually kind of inconvenient. Too specific of keywords will cause it to not understand your input, too few keywords will end up bringing you back information that you don't really need. I do love the concept behind the engine though, so hope that they'll improve the engine's interpretation abilities.
jinwoooooooo
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States176 Posts
May 16 2009 02:38 GMT
#8
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It's just like a chat bot!
AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
May 16 2009 02:41 GMT
#9
I works really well for looking up definitions of english words as well as facts, such as "why is the sky blue"

Whereas google gives you a list of pages that might contain relevant information, this engine gives you answers straight up, sort of like a forced "I'm feeling lucky" model. I like it a lot and I think it's going to take off, especially when they improve their content.
sexsexpussyhair
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada133 Posts
May 16 2009 02:44 GMT
#10
biggest flop ever.......
jtan
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden5891 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 02:47:25
May 16 2009 02:46 GMT
#11
hihi
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=To be or not to be?&asynchronous=false&equal=Submit

wolfram 1 jtan 0
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miseiler
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States1389 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 02:57:29
May 16 2009 02:54 GMT
#12
EDIT: Nevermind, it works now.

Biological data appears to be slim, but at least it's there.
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miseiler
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States1389 Posts
May 16 2009 03:03 GMT
#13
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goddammit!
"Jinro soo manly wearing only a T-Shirt while the Koreans freeze in their jackets" -- Double_O
"He's from Sweden, man. We have to fight polar bears on our way to school." -- Yusername
Llamaz
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Australia90 Posts
May 16 2009 04:03 GMT
#14
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VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
May 16 2009 05:36 GMT
#15
lol @ 100% clueless people comparing it to Google.

It does looks like a really nice tool, it has no many interesting stuff. Try typing "weather YourTown" or "dollar to yen". It gives you real time info. Nice time saver.
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.
fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 05:47:19
May 16 2009 05:43 GMT
#16
is this not the most fucking awesome thing you've ever seen?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Plot[Sin[x]*Exp[-x/5], {x, 0, 6*Pi}]

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Do you really want chat rooms?
samachking
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Bahrain4949 Posts
May 16 2009 05:51 GMT
#17
On May 16 2009 14:43 fight_or_flight wrote:
is this not the most fucking awesome thing you've ever seen?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Plot[Sin[x]*Exp[-x/5], {x, 0, 6*Pi}]

[image loading]


Yeah its pretty good with graphs and equations and anything involving math, but its really bad at finding information, thats where you go for google/wiki
"And then Earthlings discovered tools. Suddenly agreeing with friends could be a form of suicide or worse. But agreements went on, not for the sake of common sense, or decency, or self preservation, but for friendliness."
fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
May 16 2009 06:17 GMT
#18
On May 16 2009 14:51 samachking wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 16 2009 14:43 fight_or_flight wrote:
is this not the most fucking awesome thing you've ever seen?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Plot[Sin[x]*Exp[-x/5], {x, 0, 6*Pi}]

[image loading]


Yeah its pretty good with graphs and equations and anything involving math, but its really bad at finding information, thats where you go for google/wiki

Not necessarily. It is only bad (or should I say good) for finding certain types of information. It is a complement to google search, competitor to google calculator, and competes with wikipedia for a good number of things.

And it adds something completely new because it generates information on the fly, google generates data on the fly.
Do you really want chat rooms?
samachking
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Bahrain4949 Posts
May 16 2009 07:19 GMT
#19
On May 16 2009 15:17 fight_or_flight wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 16 2009 14:51 samachking wrote:
On May 16 2009 14:43 fight_or_flight wrote:
is this not the most fucking awesome thing you've ever seen?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Plot[Sin[x]*Exp[-x/5], {x, 0, 6*Pi}]

[image loading]


Yeah its pretty good with graphs and equations and anything involving math, but its really bad at finding information, thats where you go for google/wiki

Not necessarily. It is only bad (or should I say good) for finding certain types of information. It is a complement to google search, competitor to google calculator, and competes with wikipedia for a good number of things.

And it adds something completely new because it generates information on the fly, google generates data on the fly.


Yeah but it will take quite a while to find a proper algorithm and code to do that, this project isnt anywhere near finished or refined except for math and equations. Its a great concept but quite lacking and requires some time to pull off using the internet as a Knowledge base to build your information isn't really easy to do, a project involving wiki in combination with this would be pretty awesome.
"And then Earthlings discovered tools. Suddenly agreeing with friends could be a form of suicide or worse. But agreements went on, not for the sake of common sense, or decency, or self preservation, but for friendliness."
Steelflight-Rx
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1389 Posts
May 16 2009 08:36 GMT
#20
Wow, I must say, just looking at the chemistry section alone, this thing is IMPRESSIVE! this is really cool!
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