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Test Driving the Wolfram Alpha

Posted by kdawson on from the know-what-i-know-if-you-know-what-i-mean dept.

SilverMind writes in to note a blog entry at Byte Size Biology describing in detail a few hours spent with Wolfram Alpha (which we have discussed before). "After playing around with Wolfram Alpha for a few hours, I can safely say the following: it's different, it's incomplete, it's idiosyncratic, and it's funky cool. And no, it will not dethrone Google, nor does it aim to do so."

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  1. Needs a better name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How the hell am I supposed to "Wolfram Alpha" something? No one will ever say that.

    1. Re:Needs a better name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      A suitable portmanteau may emerge. Wolfa? Walpha? Wralph?

  2. Which Wolfram Alpha by russotto · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it Wolfram Alpha V, or Wolfram Alpha VI? That's vitally important!

    1. Re:Which Wolfram Alpha by h4rdc0d3 · · Score: 5, Funny

      It is a reference to a pair of planets named in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Seti Alpha V and Seti Alpha VI.

      I won't explain any more in case you have not seen the movie, though if you haven't, what are you doing in here? How did you get past security? ;)

  3. Re:Not A Search Engine by Hurricane78 · · Score: 4, Funny

    For those of you who aren't gonna RTFA, I would like to...

    tl;dr. ;)

    --
    Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
  4. Alpha? by Znooptree · · Score: 5, Funny

    When Google get their hands on this, it will be Wolfram Beta forever.

  5. Ruby does this already... by jonaskoelker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ruby can do this already:

    $ echo 'printf("%d\n", (6*9).to_s(13));' | ruby