I’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
My favourite searches:
Who are you?
http://www44.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=who+are+you%3F
Where are you?
http://www44.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=where+are+you%3F
How old are you?
http://www44.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+old+are+you%3F
cheers,
FF