Wolfram /Alpha

Cosimo · 17 May 2009 at 12:19

Begbie said:
seems tobe working now

Yup, slow to load, it's working fine here at the moment, lots of areas to play with:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Antelopethy · 17 May 2009 at 12:24

It's been very impressive so far, telling me the wind speed where I live, the phase of the moon when I was born, and differentiating equations and drawing their graphs.
I should probably get back to doing work though

jak731 · 17 May 2009 at 12:25

Try saying things like hello and how are you

Cosimo · 17 May 2009 at 12:31

jak731 said:
Try saying things like hello and how are you

It recognises “I love you” as human discourse and says it's under development.

deuse · 17 May 2009 at 12:36

Q, How are you today

A, I am doing well, thank you

sid · 17 May 2009 at 12:39

phenomenal coding effort

although the info is only useful for school homework level stuff. Very handy though for sure

sid

Solari · 17 May 2009 at 13:14

It can calculate the distance from Earth to Mars on my day of birth... cool

kenshinu · 17 May 2009 at 13:25

That is really cool. Works for what I need it for anyway =]

NickK · 17 May 2009 at 13:31

Jotun said:
I was going to start a thread about this, I'm really impressed by it, aside from giving answers to random question, it can also integrate functions and plot any functions you throw at it. Looks like this may replace google for my random calculations when I can't be bothered to open calc.exe!

"divide by zero" doesn't work... also tray 0.99999999 = 1

Fusion · 17 May 2009 at 14:01

Wow. Absolutely remarkable. I could have hours of fun with it

kibblerok · 17 May 2009 at 14:09

NickK said:
also tray 0.99999999 = 1

its broken

nydryl · 17 May 2009 at 14:16

sid said:
phenomenal coding effort

although the info is only useful for school homework level stuff. Very handy though for sure

sid

It is very useful for University level maths as well by the looks of it.

georges · 17 May 2009 at 14:21

http://www00.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+(lnx)^(e^x^2)

this can do loads. ODEs etc.

NickK · 17 May 2009 at 14:29

kibblerok said:
its broken

all a matter of accuracy - that includes my typing!

Phog · 17 May 2009 at 15:16

Yeah, seems there's some way to go for some of calculations I tried from my university labs. But maybe I haven't figured out the correct input yet!

Greebo · 18 May 2009 at 08:38

Live today!

blix · 18 May 2009 at 09:09

It's getting a lot of media attention. Article in The Times today:

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6307744.ece

Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ue-search-engine-Wolfram-Alpha-goes-live.html

Also was featured on Radio 4 earlier.

gillywibble · 18 May 2009 at 13:45

Cool stuff.

Pinkeyes · 18 May 2009 at 13:52

Easter Eggs

Pinkeyes · 18 May 2009 at 14:09

I just put "where am I" and it told me the name of the college I am in. I know it's not very hard to do from my IP Address, but it is quite impressive (and a little scary) when it tells you in under a second !