FreezeWarp
05-26-2009, 08:16 PM
A few weeks back an educational site called "Wolfram|Alpha" was released to the world. It had been talks about more than two months prior, and now at its release shows power unlike Google, unlike Wikipedia, and unlike (for those of you familiar) the T1-86. In fact, I simply find this to be the Internet creation of 2009.
The site, URLed at www.wolframalpha.com (http://www.wolframalpha.com/), is referred to as a "Computational Knowledge Engine". And, amazingly, it really is that and so much more. With it you will find a vast database of information. For example, if you want to know the weather of your city, you can enter "weather Boston, MA November, 1st, 1974" and you will have the enter weather for that day. You could also enter "distance sun from earth in inches" to have it compute the exact result.
It really is a very powerful tool, and I'm curious what everybody else thinks of it. It is completely free for personal use, and I really can't stop loving the data it provides.
The site, URLed at www.wolframalpha.com (http://www.wolframalpha.com/), is referred to as a "Computational Knowledge Engine". And, amazingly, it really is that and so much more. With it you will find a vast database of information. For example, if you want to know the weather of your city, you can enter "weather Boston, MA November, 1st, 1974" and you will have the enter weather for that day. You could also enter "distance sun from earth in inches" to have it compute the exact result.
It really is a very powerful tool, and I'm curious what everybody else thinks of it. It is completely free for personal use, and I really can't stop loving the data it provides.