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Wolfram - what is the speed of an unladen swallow?

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Re: Wolfram - what is the speed of an unladen swallow?

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Post by tokenadult »

vlad wrote: post #4

Try typing in the name of a college (the abbreviation is fine, too.) It's also interesting that it can not only perform integration, but also tell you the steps it took to get to the answer.

Try typing in the name of a college (the abbreviation is fine, too.)

My alma mater doesn't show up as "U of MN," which gets me a calculus problem, but "University of Minnesota" disambiguates nicely among the different campuses. But the information about the flagship campus hits some good information, but misses some too. Try your favorite university for the terms

[name of university] cost of attendance

or

[name of university] admission rate

or

[name of university] SAT range

or other things that people actually look up about colleges.

Re: Wolfram - what is the speed of an unladen swallow?

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Post by astrec »

DarkShikari wrote: post #7

... Q: mass of five hydrogen atoms A: Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input. Q: distance traveled by space shuttle in one day A: Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input. Q: explosive energy of five sticks of dynamite A: Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input. Q: number of keys on a US keyboard A: Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input. Q: world war 2 deaths A: Wolfr…

mass of 5 hydrogen atoms offers results for the mass of hydrogen 5, not a bad guess i suppose.

Re: Wolfram - what is the speed of an unladen swallow?

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Post by cubicle67 »

western australia

hmm.. thinks I want the flight time between Western, New York and Australia (19 hours 5 minutes if anyone's interested)

Every geographical location I've tried keeps giving me a us equivalent one :(

But, it's early days yet and this is a long term project. Can't wait to see what this is capable of in a year

Re: Wolfram - what is the speed of an unladen swallow?

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Post by kwamenum86 »

I've seen a few comments write Wolfram Alpha off. WA is going to be 10 times better than Google for a specific set of queries and when it gets etter at recognizing questions (or when I get better at asking them since Wolfram is infallible ) I can see myself using this thing IN ADDITION to Google.

Re: Wolfram - what is the speed of an unladen swallow?

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Post by nop »

vlad wrote: post #4

Try typing in the name of a college (the abbreviation is fine, too.) It's also interesting that it can not only perform integration, but also tell you the steps it took to get to the answer.

Despite all the misses I'm pretty impressed it knew about my university http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=University+of+Skövde at all, considering it's tiny even by Swedens standards.

Re: Wolfram - what is the speed of an unladen swallow?

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Post by nop »

cubicle67 wrote: post #13

western australia hmm.. thinks I want the flight time between Western, New York and Australia (19 hours 5 minutes if anyone's interested) Every geographical location I've tried keeps giving me a us equivalent one :( But, it's early days yet and this is a long term project. Can't wait to see what this is capable of in a year

In constrast "Is God Real" Says it only takes 2 hours and 35 minutes betwee God, hungrary and Real, portugal. :) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Is+God+real%3F
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