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Monday, 9 March 2009

Wolfram|Alpha

http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Lots of noise about Wolfram's next big idea...
{Link about embargoed till Mat '}


http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/08/2155216&from=rss

http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2009/03/stephen-wolfram-and-the-techno-dianetics-of-google-ology.ars

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/09/search-engine-google
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090308/1512564036.shtml
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2231
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/08/wolfram-alpha-its-like-plugging-into-an-electronic-brain/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10191304-80.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=14115
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25 comments:

  1. Tom Kimber9 March 2009 at 12:13

    I read (waded through the treacle of) Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" and found it to be a massively hyped rehash of chaos/emergence/cellular automata - all of which is very interesting stuff, and relatively new - but it wasn't as Wolfram seemed to try to remind me on every other page, ALL HIS IDEA.

    Hopefully, if he has come up with something new (and all the hot air is very possibly his - he is, if nothing else, very good at blowing his own trumpet) it wont inherit his self-aggrandising personality.

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  2. Tom Kimber10 March 2009 at 14:53

    So Lloyd, what are you trying to say:
    i) it's all too beautiful
    ii) Stephen Wolfram has a small face
    iii) the idea of an ai that answers your questions makes you all itchy(coo)?

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  3. Lloyd .10 March 2009 at 15:08

    I just thought that the lyrics were quite fitting.

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  4. Tom Kimber10 March 2009 at 15:17

    Sorry, but you lost me - there's a bit about ducks on a pond, getting high, missing school and going down to the park, and it all being very nice - none of which seems to have any relevance to a big fat computer that answers questions.

    No biggie - just confused, that's all.

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  5. Lloyd .10 March 2009 at 15:22

    You got it.

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  6. Peter S11 March 2009 at 05:37

    "Why go to learn the words of fools?" ?

    Won't that be cool?

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  7. Lloyd .11 March 2009 at 16:14

    Only joking.

    Good song though.

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  8. Andrew C6 April 2009 at 19:57

    http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/wolframalpha-searching-truth

    Impressive podcast here (r/t=1hr ish - sounds *very* neat)
    http://hplusmagazine.com/media/sw_alphapodcast.mp3.

    These ref those
    http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/04/rudy_rucker_talks_to_stephen_wolfra.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
    http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/06/stephen-wolfram-talk.html

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  9. Andrew C28 April 2009 at 19:44

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/28/after-being-upstaged-by-google-wolfram-alpha-fires-back-with-a-leaked-screenshot/
    http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10229202-76.html
    http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17129

    IBM's Watson
    http://www.metafilter.com/81193/More-than-just-Google-on-Steroids

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17038

    http://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/ibm-supercomput.php

    Google "Me too"
    http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-04-28-n24.html

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  10. Andrew C30 April 2009 at 10:53

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8026331.stm

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  11. Andrew C9 May 2009 at 20:29

    http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22585/page1/

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  12. Andrew C11 May 2009 at 07:54

    http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/10/2154258&from=rss

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  13. Andrew C12 May 2009 at 18:18

    Hmm, Google scared?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8047076.stm

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  14. Andrew C15 May 2009 at 20:49

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10242353-76.html

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  15. Andrew C15 May 2009 at 20:54

    That said... It is up now... Typing star chart gave me a map from where I am (in my sittingroom)

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  16. Tom Kimber16 May 2009 at 03:21

    I tried a couple of things like "population, dorset" but it didn't know that I didn't mean Dorset in Vermont. Then I tried "population in Europe since 1000000 bc" but that was too difficult too.

    I did get directed to this 'live' feed that shows the Wolfram control room though
    http://www.justin.tv/clip/2dd6b9f07e7f8a4e

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  17. Andrew C16 May 2009 at 08:19

    Cool! I'll take a look

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  18. Andrew C16 May 2009 at 09:22

    http://www.physorg.com/news161629414.html
    http://www.metafilter.com/81703/Question-the-Answers-Answer-the-questions

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  19. Andrew C16 May 2009 at 10:16

    LOL
    My favorite question, so far

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  20. Andrew C16 May 2009 at 11:19

    On the top line, to the right is a "More?" link - that sometimes suggests other places

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  21. Andrew C16 May 2009 at 11:25

    Dave Wolfram.jpg

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  22. Andrew C18 May 2009 at 08:05

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/may/18/wolfram-alpha-semantic-web-competitor-google

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  23. Paul M2 June 2009 at 11:03

    http://www60.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=are+you+skynet%3F

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  24. Andrew C2 June 2009 at 11:16

    >)

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  25. Dub2 March 2014 at 15:39

    http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2014/02/starting-to-demo-the-wolfram-language/

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