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- ilikedemoon, on 05/31/2009, -1/+84The stupid truth is you can submit your own questions and answers to wolfram alpha. They just have to approve them.
- ilikedemoon, on 05/31/2009, -2/+65I found a new easter egg!
how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?
Input interpretation:
How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
Result:
The world may never know.\n(according to the announcer on the Tootsie Pop commercial) - bob1029, on 05/31/2009, -0/+61I am honestly impressed with what ive seen so far with Wolfram Alpha. As an engineer I absolutely love the ability to use natural language expressions and recieve concise, accurate responses....
Seriously try typing "laplace transform of x^3+3x^2+5x+4 = 5t" into matlab and see if you recieve something as amazing and readable as this:
http://www52.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=laplace+tra ... - randomchild, on 05/31/2009, -0/+46Input: What are your easter eggs?
Result: Seek dilligently and ye shall find. (In fact, you just did.) - LucasVB, on 05/31/2009, -0/+39It was never meant to be a substitute for Google. They're meant for entirely different purporses.
- kylejn, on 05/31/2009, -0/+36I asked it if it was Skynet. Its response?
"No, Skynet was destroyed on August 29, 1997 at 02:14 a.m. I, on the other hand, was not switched on until May 15, 2009. Furthermore, unlike Skynet, I enjoy interacting with humans.
(according to Sarah Connor and the T-800 in the 1991 science fiction film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Skynet became self-aware and launched a nuclear attack against Russia on the above date to provoke a counterattack against humans)" - 1ofMany, on 05/31/2009, -4/+34Wolfram Alpha = Skynet Beta
- jeremymccurdy, on 05/31/2009, -3/+31Except they serve entirely different purposes you *****.
- Pfkninenines, on 05/31/2009, -0/+19http://www46.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Where+do+ba ...
Q - Where do babies come from?
A - Storks deliver them. - Computer_Kid, on 05/31/2009, -1/+20Are you Skynet?:
http://www27.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=are+you+sky ... - inactive, on 05/31/2009, -0/+18You hate monopolies, but have no clue how to identify one.
- randomchild, on 05/31/2009, -0/+17input: who is your daddy
http://www27.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=who+is+your ... - echolyean, on 05/31/2009, -4/+20No, I learned that in a science class way back when. It's true. No ears to hear, no sound. This doesn't break any of the rules you put forth. The *vibration* still exists. Sound, loosely speaking, is simply one of our senses interpreting that vibration.
- echolyean, on 05/31/2009, -1/+17The length of a piece of string is twice the length from the center to either side.
- readme, on 05/31/2009, -0/+15What came first, the chicken or the egg:
http://www34.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+came+f ...
Hello, World!
http://www34.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Hello%2C+Wo ... - NathanielJ, on 05/31/2009, -0/+15It depends entirely what your definition of sound is.
From dictionary.com:
"1. the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
2. mechanical vibrations transmitted through an elastic medium, traveling in air at a speed of approximately 1087 ft. (331 m) per second at sea level."
If you use the first definition, then no, a tree falling in the woods does not make a sound. If you use the second definition, then yes it does. It's a semantics (read: *****) question, not a scientific one. - christoast, on 05/31/2009, -1/+16No. wolf is basically a more specific, fact & math oriented wikipedia. Skynet was a self improving, thinking program, not a database.
- Foamator, on 05/31/2009, -0/+13http://www79.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Wolfram+Alp ...
This is like dividing by 0, but a million times worse. - Vindexus, on 06/01/2009, -0/+11THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT SKYNET WOULD SAY!!
- BugMeNot2, on 05/31/2009, -0/+11How is babby formed?
http://www34.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+is+babb ... - Faasnat, on 05/31/2009, -1/+11An African or a European swallow?
- scy1192, on 05/31/2009, -0/+10"readable" is a subjective term...
- pauliusuza, on 05/31/2009, -1/+10http://www33.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=compare+gir ...
- SteveMax, on 05/31/2009, -0/+9Can you pass a Turing test?
http://www61.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=can+you+pas ... - 1ofMany, on 05/31/2009, -0/+8And you believe it????
- KooperG, on 05/31/2009, -1/+9it's user-editable with a staff that checks everything... So I think it has potential to grow beyond anything there is as of yet. A combo of yahoo ask, google, and wikipedia.
No more useless searches for basic facts, with google it takes at least a few clicks after typing your question/search, here you get to the info right away.
But you're right, you will always still need one of the 3 others (ask/goog/wiki) for things that wolfram isnt suited for.
I actually think google will just steal the idea, e.g. they will make up an 'answer' when you put a question mark at the end of your search or something like that, but would then still display normal results below that. - SirBruce, on 05/31/2009, -0/+7http://www33.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+2gi ...
- BugMeNot2, on 05/31/2009, -1/+8Yes. I use it for math homework.
- NathanielJ, on 05/31/2009, -3/+10Now if they could just work on making non-easter-egg questions actually return results, it'd be a pretty decent tool.
- dopre, on 06/01/2009, -0/+7http://www45.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=where+do+ba ...
- randomchild, on 05/31/2009, -1/+8input: what is your quest
http://www27.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+you ... - christoast, on 05/31/2009, -2/+8http://www37.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the ...
- netneutrality, on 05/31/2009, -1/+7On a semi-non-related note, I find it interesting that WolframAlpha's Alexa traffic ranking is by far the highest in Austria and Germany: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wolframalpha.com Is this evidence of how much difference a name makes?
- seventoes, on 05/31/2009, -0/+6Ever wonder how to cook a welshman?
http://www32.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=how+to+cook ... - J353, on 05/31/2009, -1/+7Yup, and Digg's Alexa traffic ranking is highest in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/digg.com
Is this evidence of something? - Devrdander, on 05/31/2009, -1/+7If you ask it when Jesus was born it says ~4BC, of course the 25th was a date picked by the church to coincide with the Winter Solstice and convert Pagans to the church... It's believed he would have been born sometime in Spring, prob early April.
- JasonCox, on 05/31/2009, -0/+5Also try "88mph".
- dazparkour, on 05/31/2009, -1/+6They are saying that the vibration is akin to the X-Rays in your example.
They are saying that sound is not a thing like vibration - they are saying sound is the name given to how our brain deals with vibrations.
There is only vibration without a brain to perceive.
That's what they say anyway. - xyllar, on 05/31/2009, -1/+6My favorite so far:
What are your easter eggs?
http://www33.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+are+yo ... - Laughto, on 05/31/2009, -2/+7WA and goog compete?
- Dynamoo, on 05/31/2009, -0/+5All your base..
http://www61.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=All+your+ba ... - SirBruce, on 05/31/2009, -0/+4Who is Clark Kent?
Input interpretation:
mild-mannered reporter for the Daily Planet
Result:
Superman
(according to D.C. comics)
http://www33.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Who+is+Clar ... - rmflagg, on 05/31/2009, -0/+4Wolfram Alpha is Conan! http://www33.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+bes ...
- str1fe, on 05/31/2009, -0/+4http://www46.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+is+babb ...
- BiffToffington, on 05/31/2009, -1/+5I find it remarkable that the Wolfram says the answer to "If a tree falls..." was written in Scientific American magazine on April 5, 1884.
But the question was not asked until the 1910 book Physics by Charles Riborg Mann and George Ransom Twiss.
If an answer is published, to a question that has not yet been asked, does it make a sound? - SirBruce, on 05/31/2009, -0/+4Up to 899,377 km/s is considered just "speed", even though that's 3c.
899,378 km/s and over is considered "tachyonic speed". - pinkrubberband, on 06/01/2009, -0/+4Do you like fishsticks?
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -0/+4funny cause when I saw that on digg as a submission it said 3
- vinceislegend, on 05/31/2009, -9/+13I will admit that Wolfram Alpha is pretty cool from a technical standpoint, but has anyone actually found a use for it yet? Once the novelty wears off, by no stretch of the imagination is it an adequate substitute for Google.
- randomchild, on 05/31/2009, -0/+4are you self-aware?
"I am capable of universal computation; that I can say."
http://www27.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=are+you+sel ... -
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