Wolfram Alpha

written by Tomas M. 1 year ago

Few days ago i stumbled upon a website called Wolfram|Alpha. What an incredible piece of work! At the first sight it seems like just another search engine. Not at all! Wolfram Alpha identifies itself as a computational knowledge engine, and it is exactly that.

What can you compute?

- Drugs
- Chemistry
- Mathematics
- Stocks
- Currencies
- Musical notes
- Genealogic
- and much more...

Check it out!

Tomas M.

User comments

[1] TheOneThatWonTGoAway wrote 1 year ago:

Tomas,

It is pretty cool! Thanks for the link. Look what it says for:

http://www21.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=God&asynchronous=false&equal=Submit

It give definitions, nouns, etc. Take a look if you want.

[2] TheOneThatWonTGoAway wrote 1 year ago:

@Tomas,

This search/computational engine is very powerful. It resembles the pages by Eric Weissteins/Math Wolfram pages where mathematica and other software was used. Thank you for sharing that with us. I am sorry for posting that. I just was checking what it would say since it says that it does not post opinions.

Goals
Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
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[3] Alexio wrote 1 year ago:

Google released its new search tool called Google Squared:

http://www.google.com/squared/

The new search tool is an interesting piece that allows you to pull out information about a specific topic from around the web into a spreadsheet.

[4] dimitrij wrote 1 year ago:

I got lucky to get one of the early testing accounts, and was so impressed, I had to order his book the next day ("NKS - A new kind of science", a 1200 page masterpiece). It just came in a few days ago, so I'm still at the point of mind_switching, since he is pushing simple boolean logic way beyond simple, to create complex and chaotic systems out of trivial rules. Later he shows how this cellular_automata like logic can help to solve problems which can not be easily expressed in normal mathematical notation. Wolfram alpha makes heavy use of NKS style algorithms with Mathematica computing power to deliver results. It's still a long read for me, but slowly seeing the picture I realy like it more and more. OK, no more adds until it solves some of my problems :), but its probably a good read for anyone interested in programming, maths, ...

Back to topic, I hope they can raise enough $$ to polish out W|A, it will kick some a*, but it takes more then an algorithm to be the next google.

Tomas let me thank you for SLAX, it really was a life saver for me in university days. Using it from early 2.x days it was ever since the one and only perfect fit for all my needs. Looking back, I think this is my firs post. I know, shame on me, but let me report know slax never lost any files or had any other major problems running on at least a 100 PCs I booted. Thanks again & keep up the good work, I really like your ideas and designs.

[5] failure wrote 1 year ago:

I told it "improve slax".

It replied "Computation timed out."

[6] Jack wrote 1 year ago:

Powerful tool for stock/investment look ups.
Thanks for the link!

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