Re: [vox] very cool web site

[Jonathan Stickel <jjsticMAPSkel@vcn.com>]

This is very cool!  I am surprised I hadn't heard about it before.  It 
is not a "search engine".  The company (Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, 
a very good computer algebra software) calls it a "computational 
knowledge engine".  Based on the user input, apparently it searches for 
information (perhaps already in the company's database) and then 
performs computations on that information.

If you don't need to compute anything about what you are looking for, 
yes, use Google.

Jonathan


On 7/29/10 21:45 , evesautomotive wrote:
> This is exactly why the video should be watched.  maybe I
> shouldn't have compared it to Google.
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:21:16 -0700
>    Norm Matloff<matloff@cs.ucdavis.edu>  wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:32:30AM -0700, jimbo wrote:
>>
>>> This is truly amazing and worth the time to see the
>>> intro all the way thru.
>>
>>> http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
>>
>> I didn't watch the video, but I did try the search
>> engine, with useless
>> but certainly humorous results.
>>
>> I plugged in my name, "Norm Matloff," and got, "Assuming
>> 'Norm" is a
>> probability distribution," which it expanded to "normal
>> distribution."
>>
>> I then plugged in "Matloff," and got back "Interpreting
>> 'Matloff'
>> as 'meatloaf.'"
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> I'm sticking with Google. :-)
>>
>> Norm
>>
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