Posted on 05/16/2009 11:36:08 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Listening to an audio but it is choppy.
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About Wolfram|Alpha
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.
Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.
Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that we intend will deliver increasing capabilities over the years and decades to come. With a world-class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, our goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement.
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Bookmarked. Consider yourself *HIGHLY* commended, sir!
Cheers!
Cheers!
Tried 3 different searches on historical economic data, housing prices, unemployment rate and money supply. All three failed. I’d say this has a ways to go.
Sounds like another attempt to create the Semantic Web.
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Wolfram|Alpha just went live for the very first time, running all clusters. This first run at testing Wolfram|Alpha in the real world is off to an auspicious start, although not surprisingly, we’re still working on some kinks, especially around logging. While we’re still in the early stages of this long-term project, it is really gratifying to finally have the opportunity to invite you to participate in this project with us. We are very grateful for the outpouring of support that we have received over the past two months. And for the enthusiastic interest that was shown this evening, especially in the last few minutes. We got off to a late start, but so far, so good. We’ll stay up for as along as it makes sense to test the system with external access and gather the data we need. Then we’ll take Wolfram|Alpha offline for a while. We’ll continue testing through the weekend, opening access on occasion. For those of you trying out the system for the first time, welcome! To anyone waiting in line due to capacity limits, thanks for your patience. We really appreciate it. You can continue to watch us in action over on justin.tv.
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LOL!
Not sure if I am watching live or a clip from last night...says currently under tornado watch in central Illinois...(believe that was what I heard.)
Now getting a tour of the raised floor and power supply units....audio weak....
Talking about power problems and router connection problems...
man,....bringing back memories of the excitement and fear of setting up and starting computing centers....seems like yesterday...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
by Matt Hartley
Normally the idea of yet another search engine is something most people might find exciting at first, only to be let down later once they realize that it is not going to be the next Google. This said, the demo of the Wolfram Alpha is a completely different animal indeed.
Despite a fairly significant snafu with the video during the presentation itself, the benevolent media overlords managed to put together enough video footage whereas the masses were able to get an idea of what this search demo is all about.
Designed to provide the ultimate research tool for scientists and researchers, the Wolfram Alpha search engine proved to be very useful for things like searching for LDL 180 down to then displaying a graph to show how this affects the general population. Again, as a research tool, Wolfram’s search engine is amazing.
Input: W 8X21 steel beam span 14 feet
Result: Wolfram|Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input.
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