Making the world's knowledge computable

May 22, 2009 23:29

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.  You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.

Possibly an early version of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?

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suzie_lightning May 23 2009, 05:57:29 UTC
I first read that as "wolfman" and thought you'd named your beard.

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duckspeaker May 25 2009, 14:50:04 UTC
That is pretty cool...

I always wonder how to store sites like that for later reference.
Any thoughts?

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