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A Look At the Wolfram Alpha "Search Engine"
An anonymous reader points out a ReadWriteWeb piece on an hour-long demo of Wolfram|Alpha (which we discussed at its announcement). Stephen Wolfram does not like to call it a "search engine," preferring instead the term "computational knowledge engine." It will open to the public in May. "The hype around Wolfram|Alpha, the next 'Google killer' from the makers of Mathematica, has been building over the last few weeks. Today, we were lucky enough to attend a one-hour web demo with Stephen Wolfram, and from what we've seen, it definitely looks like it can live up to the hype — though, because it is so different from traditional search engines, it will definitely not be a 'Google killer.' According to Stephen Wolfram, the goal of Alpha is to give everyone access to expert knowledge and the data that a specialist would be able to compute from this information."
What role will cellular automata play in this, and will this also define the basic nature of universal mechanics?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Don't laugh, but this is one of the questions that Wolfram|Alpha will be able to answer easily. May 2009.
... until it's in beta.
The thing is called "Wolfram Alpha", probably as in "Alpha and Omega".
Enough said.
Reminds of this Super Genius.
Just announced: Corey Hart has joined on as the lead promoter of the new "computational knowledge engine." In related news they have now renamed the engine to signify the merging of their separate talents.
"I believe that Wolfram Hart has the ability to become the Alpha and the Omega of internet informatics" said Hart in a midnight press conference.
Not everyone is celebrating this new turn of events, however. A man only identifying himself as Angel has come out in opposition to a company who openly support those that wear their sunglasses only at night.
CoKE?
I knew I should have looked this up before clicking submit: this makes Wolfram Alpha 1.25 million times more complicated than the entire universe, which Wolfram expects to be expressible in 4 lines of Mathematica.
[b.belong('us') for b in bases if b.owner() == 'you']
So it'll be exactly like his book?
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Quick, somebody ask it what "the first number not nameable in under ten words" is!
If Google does no evil and someone kills them, doesn't that then make the killer evil?
I don't know if I like where this is going.
Helluva drug^Wengine
Disconnect and self-destruct, one bullet at a time.
Hey! I have never been to a McD's *and* don't own a TV!
So there you go
Do I have to remind everyone how annoying it is to search for technical documentation for something vaguely Linux-related, only to find the first 30 hits are various forums with more or less clueless newbies discussing installation difficulties and the syntax of apt-get?
Gods yes. And not to mention that 80% of them are from 2006 or earlier.
Gods yes. And not to mention that 80% of them are from 2006 or earlier.
Uuuugh, so true. Worse still, about 60% or more of those newbie questions remain unanswered years after they were asked!