Wolphram Alpha

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  1. #1
    Is anyone using Wolphram Alpha? If so, how in the world does one really use it?
     
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  2. Luke Beale

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    URL to it?

    Never heard of it.
     
    Luke Beale, Aug 2, 2009 IP
  3. dynashox

    dynashox Premium Member Staff

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  4. Phynder

    Phynder Well-Known Member

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    It is pretty specialized - more for calculating than searching. For instance, finding out your BMI or what a mortgage will cost you.

    http://www.wolframalpha.com/
     
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    cronik Well-Known Member

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    Wolfram Apha is genius...

    I hope it takes off and becomes very successful, I seen it on the news and they said it was suppose to be the next big thing.
     
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    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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  7. Philllip

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    I love wolfram, its a concept that has fascinated me throughout its development.

    The ability to ask a search engine direct questions its great and the uses are endless! I love typing my data of birth in, I was 8000 days old the other week ;)
     
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    i also love wolfram.... it has nice devoplment ideas...
     
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    kslokesh Well-Known Member

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    #9
    Its an Information Finder rather than a web search engine..

    You can get good information regarding places, scientific terms etc..
     
    kslokesh, Aug 14, 2009 IP
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    Its more like a calculator, I guess. I thought it worked like brainboost. I input 'what is the name of the russian prime minister' and it said, it isnt sure what to do with the input. Heck.
     
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    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    It is good only when you are looking an answer for some question
     
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    Wolfram Alpha is in the works to become something great.. Right now it isent more useful than a wikipedia lookup though.

    It does not understand the majority of questions you ask it, so it should really be wolfram Beta..
     
    promo, Aug 15, 2009 IP
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    It is not a search enging like google , it is Information and stats Finder like alexa and compete ..

    it is great in some fonctions ..
     
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    I use Wolphram Alpha almost everyday -_-
    It's the future, my mate.
     
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    Alpha is appropriate - software is in alpha before it goes beta.
     
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    #16
    Wolphram Alpha is great, can't wait to show my kids this site. Excellent source for mathematical and statistics for just about everything.
     
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    Mike650i Greenhorn

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    I think it's pretty overrated. Toyed with it once, but back to Google for me.
     
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    It is fun to play with, but so far I have seen no actual uses for it for me.
     
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    Yea i havent seen a important use other then time waster
     
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    Wolphram is more like a meta-tag search engine, has nothing to do with real data in real world. I kept going back to do some semantic search but most of the time I got 'not found', 'did not understand' results.
     
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