Top Ten (10) “Tweets” Since Wolfy Launched

alpha1I’ve been experimenting with http://www.wolframalpha.com/ the so-called computational search engine released over the weekend. I’ve been networking with others about ‘Wolfy’, as I call it, using Twitter. Here is an online tutorial.

Here are some fun posts since Saturday. ~Dean

1. Isn’t WolframAlpha a thing of beauty? Derivative of x^x http://tr.im/lG0o

2. @allergynotes “Anemia with Hemoglobin 4.2 mg/dL. What is the Cause?” A perfect example of not being able to “WolframAlpha” an answer

3. What’s the verb to search on WolframAlpha? Wolfing? lol

4. “All countries”, that’s cool on Wolfy http://bit.ly/1aggEA

5. Google vs. WolframAlpha – *difficult* to compare; tried bunch of queries; not sure how to word them; is WA the ‘savant of search engines’?

6. WolframAlpha ‘estimate of Twitter users’ http://bit.ly/7krzq

7. An early irreverant ‘review’… “Wolfram Alpha – a new kind of Fail” http://tinyurl.com/pbp96s

8. WolframAlpha first step in long-term plan to make systematic knowledge computable by anyone http://bit.ly/DRNJm

9. Playing with WolframAlpha http://www51.wolframalpha.com/ Watch the screencast for a demo: http://tinyurl.com/qnc83x

10. My favourite search on Wolfy? Where am I? http://www46.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%22Where+am+I%22


About Dean Giustini

I am the UBC Biomedical Branch librarian at Vancouver hospital. I teach at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, and the School of Population and Public Health.
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