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    Wake Us When Wolfram Alpha Can Solve an Actual Problem

    The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    05/19/09

    In reply to Wake Us When Wolfram Alpha Can Solve an Actual Problem
    My preferred method of retrieving data using natural language queries is by using virginal priestesses that live in mountain temples. Their services do indeed cost me a goat, require me to participate in ritual cleansing, fasting, abstention from all sexual activity and avoiding touching unclean women for up to two weeks, but there is the added advantage of my being able to receive my data in dactylic hexameter with complex rhyme schemes.
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    Image of Figaro Figaro
    05/18/09

    In reply to Wake Us When Wolfram Alpha Can Solve an Actual Problem
    WOlframAlpha is near complete crap. I've tried around 40 queries so far and none of them have been great. Maybe 10 were OK, rest just plain awful.


    So far, this service is a giant fail.

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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    05/18/09

    In reply to Wake Us When Wolfram Alpha Can Solve an Actual Problem
    I love it. It's like a really smart calculator. Unfortunately, it's not robust enough to answer the questions that I need answered with any great frequency. Give it some time and some input from the humanities community and it will get there.
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    05/18/09

    @i'm a bottle: The weather data is golden as is the demographics stuff. I love how they spit out the charts automatically for you.
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    Image of celery celery
    05/18/09

    In reply to Wake Us When Wolfram Alpha Can Solve an Actual Problem
    To be honest, the only hype I read about this was a gushing piece by one Owen Thomas. Not surprised it ended this way.
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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    03/10/09

    In reply to The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
    They better have a kickass logo to go with that name
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    03/09/09

    In reply to The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
    Ask Wolfram.
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    Image of skippywasserman skippywasserman
    03/09/09

    In reply to The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
    Back when I was a kid we had two places in town to go get answers. There was the library, with its books and facts and encyclopedias, and metal detectors. And there was Rupert K. McCormack. Ol' Rupe could answer just about anything, and in half the time. He was right just about as often, and was often so much more helpful than those tired old books. Often, he was also much more forthcoming about certain subjects, such as drugs, videotape, and certain legal matters, than those dusty old women and the books they kept pretty down there at the main branch's special collections room.


    Yep. Back when I was a kid...

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    Image of 1Melanie 1Melanie
    03/09/09

    @skippywasserman:


    Awww...it's ok honey. You must have just had a birthday. The library was a special place back in those days wasn't it...


    before quaint town libraries turned to big community centers with neglected children hogging the computers.


    Yes, remember the oak card holders of the Dewey Decimal System.

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    Image of Juancho Juancho
    03/09/09

    @1Melanie: so, so true (says the librarian at the town library turned community center with neglgected children and adults hogging the pcs).
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    03/09/09

    In reply to The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
    I thought Wolfram was working on revising the scientific method by deconstructing the process of induction or something. I don't know, even this seems like a comedown.
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    03/09/09

    In reply to The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
    Nothing is true?


    Yes.

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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    03/09/09

    In reply to The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
    If I only had a brain.
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    Image of RocktheDebit RocktheDebit
    03/09/09

    In reply to The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
    But are monads involved?
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    03/09/09

    @RocktheDebit: It depends on which possible world we happen to be in.
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    03/09/09

    In reply to The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
    While the potential ramifications of this 'next great leap' are exciting,
    I'm still going for the anagrams.


    Wolfram Alpha:
    Flap, Wham, Oral!
    Harm, A Flop Law.
    A Prof All...Wham!

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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    03/09/09

    In reply to The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
    This is the mechanical turk. See if Jeff Bezos or D.E. Shaw is involved.
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    03/09/09

    In reply to The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine
    "Compute" answers to questions? Like...42?
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    03/09/09

    @Claire Buoyant: The answer to 42 is always milk with pi. You're welcome.
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    03/09/09

    @Claire Buoyant: Thanks to you and LardBeuys I am up to (nerd) speed on all things 42.
    Here I was thinking you were just being really random & capricious.
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