It seems W|A is something like a computational almanac, and because of that,
there's a lot of stuff it doesn't know. It doesn't feel like a search
engine to me, and it's not encyclopedic.
It had no idea what to do when I asked it about nuclear pebble bed reactors
(my favorite test query) but I wa
Sharon Foster writes:
> I wanted to find out how much my house would be worth today in a
> "normal" situation (if there is such a thing in the housing market).
> WolframAlpha helped me to formulate the query
>
> $96900 (1985 dollars)
>
> and then gave me the answer, adjusted for an average
I wanted to find out how much my house would be worth today in a
"normal" situation (if there is such a thing in the housing market).
WolframAlpha helped me to formulate the query
$96900 (1985 dollars)
and then gave me the answer, adjusted for an average inflation of
about 2.8% per year.
Google
thanks so much for your post Alex, i hadn't had a chance to
consider Wolfram|Alpha (WA) seriously until you posted the link
to the talk (and i had the time to actually watch it).
On 5/3/09 6:13 PM, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIOH80Qg7Q
> Organisations and people
