But i disagree. Shit looks so useful you don't understand. I can think of so many ways to use this right now I'm blowing up. gaaaaaaaaaaah
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Anonymous2009-05-15 0:20
If only they had a way to interface this with neurally, like a direct hookup into your brain. Then you can go about your day, looking things up instantly whilst you're walking or eating with friends.
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Anonymous2009-05-15 0:21
>>12
They have that already. It's called high school
>>18
Except that reddit doesn't make up it's own jokes only steals them, mind you, it could have been stolen from somewhere else first.
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Anonymous2009-05-16 10:23
2:50pm May 16th, 2009 jptollenboom says:
I am very happy to be able to witness this launch. This is more important than the first man on the moon. Congratulations to Stephen Wolfram and team.
2:52pm May 16th, 2009 orlebeke says:
I have graet admiration for this immense enterprise which I thought was impossible. Feel like Lalande - the French atronomer - confronted with the Montgolfiers-balloon flight in 1783 which he had prdedicted as totally impossible in 1782. Jacob Orlebeke
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Anonymous2009-05-16 12:49
Sorry, Wolfram Alpha is temporarily unavailable. Please try again.
Error: DataPacletFilter: Unable to get Connection Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Too many connections)
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Anonymous2009-05-16 14:45
5:24pm May 16th, 2009 finfin82 says:
congratulations, you have made a very good job so far. its unbelivable what you have done. you did what is the dream of human mandkind, you made it possible to access the combinated knowlegde of the internet thats pretty cool ;-)
6:35pm May 16th, 2009 abulufia says:
This surely marks the transformation from the Information Age to the Knowlege Age. Wolfram will in time be recognised as important as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and I am proud he is also a Brit, and from my home town of Oxford!
8:01pm May 16th, 2009 jacobt says:
I do think this marks the beginning of a new age of Computing. And, it's really quite neat to see the brain center of the operations.
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Anonymous2009-05-16 14:49
>>20,22
This may surprise you, but all those people are actually Stephen Wolfram.
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Anonymous2009-05-16 15:04
the author sounds a real tosspiece
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Anonymous2009-05-16 16:13
This may surprise you but I invented Wolfram|Alpha.
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Anonymous2009-05-16 18:31
Too much XmlHttpRequest wankery and unnecessary pictures of text. I still have no idea how to use it, except for toy problems such as ``GDP of Guatemala 20 years ago''
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Anonymous2009-05-16 18:41
>>26
Asking for the GDP of a country is now the new fibonacci.
Fact.
If you type in your date of birth, it will tell you all types of statistics about that date, such as what day it was, how long ago from the current date it is, etc.
I was born 21 years 5 months and 5 days ago, if anybody is interested.
This is the only real use I've found for this piece of machinery.
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Anonymous2009-05-16 18:59
How do you pronounce Wolfram|Alpha?
I) Wolfram Pipe Alpha
II) Wolfram Alpha (faggot)
III) Wolfram Vertical Bar Alpha
IV) Wolfram Gas Explosion
>>30
Your question makes the assumption that the reader has pronounced Wolfram | Alpha in real life. This is a faulty assumption. Indeed, whilst most people succumb to the temptation of "sub-vocal reading", ie. reading text with an "inner-voice," you wrongly assume everybody uses such techniques for reading.
As a speed reader for many years, I employ much faster methods which don't involve sub-vocalization. Additionally, I've never found the need to use these words in real life with other people. So therefore your question does not apply to me.
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Anonymous2009-05-16 19:28
>>31
Respondents in you're situation are encouraged to interpret such questions as ``How would you pronounce …, should the need arise?''.
>>31
Perchance in the future I shall phrase such questons ``How does one...'' It is a shame that the use of ``one'' as a pronoun has fallen into disuse as it has a quite useful and pleasing generality. I shall do my best to re-introduce it into on-line technical discourse. When I am not posting on /prog/ I am an influential ``blogger'' and technologist.
>>36
To resort to the pronominal ``one'' would be sure folly in these cases, as the query is chiefly concerned with the persuasion of the individual respondent, not the practices he believes are standard or appropriate among the general populace.
>>31
You know, while reading your post I realized that I've for some reason been sub-vocalizing while reading all day. I don't even know how long it's been since I started doing it, it may have been weeks. Anyway, thank you, I read much faster again now.
fuck wolfram alpha, it's just a project with media backup hoping to develop along as people come (and advertising revenue).
It's not coincidental there's a fucking feedback field in the front page; it shows they're hoping exactly for that.
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Anonymous2009-05-19 13:42
>SICP Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.
>Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.
>Sussman Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.
>Gerald Jay Sussman Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.