Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram

This is simply stunning.

:eek:

Amazing! I love the fact the video is narrated by Hannibal Lecter as well

Shame that it doesn't seem to be up to much. Kind of like 'asking Jeeves' to look through the remnants of a fire-damaged library: great if the data's there; pointless if you want to know anything else...

El Reg journo is unimpressed

Wolfram Alpha - a new kind of Fail ? The Register

Some interesting questions:-

What is the meaning of life?

Why did the chicken cross the road?

And some more here.

Add-on for Firefox lets you view dual Google and Wolfram results on one page.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12006

Good find.

Shame WA is quite a bit slower then google.

I was gonna post about this last week actually, after hearing about it on the radio. Looks to be a great idea and have sound theory behind it, but definitely needs some work/evolving/polishing.

It can be quite slow, but then it is pulling together quite a lot of data at the same time.

I'll be watching with some interest as to where it goes from here. I certainly hope it won't just 'fail' at this stage

Steve

P.S. Also, not exactly a catchy name! Was telling someone at work about it, then couldn't remember the name! So have to keep referring to the bookmark for it....