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[Tech News] Interesting technology

Henrik
18-May-2009
[4038]
it's basically a really fancy calculator.
Graham
18-May-2009
[4039]
I'll wait for the wolframbeta
Maxim
18-May-2009
[4040x3]
for example "what is e"  give a lot of info... it even returns the 
codepoint for 2 encodings, and suggests that e is also part of math 
(with a hot link to it)
henrik it does scour the web... it integrated data within itself, 
using complex algorythms to find patterns and stuff.
that is what I read the first time I looked into it anyways
yeksoon
18-May-2009
[4043]
ok...here's something I tried...

A comparison between RIMM, AAPL and PALM
http://www17.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=RIMM%2C+AAPL%2C+PALM


But, doubt it will be useful...since history shows that we can't 
rely on modelling alone when it comes to the stock market (or any 
market)
Henrik
18-May-2009
[4044]
From the FAQ:

Is Wolfram|Alpha a search engine?

No. It's a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by 
doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead 
of searching the web and returning links.

Does Wolfram|Alpha get its data from the web?

No. It comes from Wolfram|Alpha's internal knowledge base. Some of 
the data in that knowledge base is derived from official public or 
private websites, but most of it is from more systematic primary 
sources.

Where does Wolfram|Alpha's data come from?

Many different sources, combined and curated by the Wolfram|Alpha 
team. At the bottom of each relevant results page there's a "Source 
information" button, which provides background sources and references.
Maxim
18-May-2009
[4045]
by using it a bit I realise that its not using very fancy NLP for 
the questions.
Henrik
18-May-2009
[4046]
yes, some questions fail, even if they should make logical sense.
Maxim
18-May-2009
[4047]
sometimes changing what, where or who gives the same replies, when 
they should be different.. so its probably using basic statistical 
based analysis, which doesn't understand the concepts.... where as 
current nlp systems really do understand the differences between 
places people and things.
Sunanda
18-May-2009
[4048]
It needs to loosen up a bit too:
   largest prime  ===> good answer
   smallest prime ===> confused wolfram
Graham
18-May-2009
[4049x2]
perhaps the people who coded it assumed that the persons asking the 
questions have the ability to understand the answers?
So, try and deal with the hard questions first and leave the easy 
stuff to google
Henrik
18-May-2009
[4051x2]
I guess you should compare Wolfram Alpha to Spock in the beginning 
of the fourth Star Trek movie, where he's being tested by a computer. 
"How do you feel?" :-)
They should in fact just call it "Ask Mr. Spock".
Graham
18-May-2009
[4053]
You're not going to ruin the movie for us are you???
Henrik
18-May-2009
[4054]
Not the new one. :-)
Graham
18-May-2009
[4055]
Gene Roddenbury or his estate executors might object ...
Henrik
18-May-2009
[4056]
I can see why Carl says it's his favourite Star Trek movie. The computers 
that Spock uses are in fact Amiga 1000s. :-)
Graham
18-May-2009
[4057]
aw geez .. spoilers :(
Henrik
18-May-2009
[4058]
The computer that Scotty uses to show transparent aluminum was originally 
going to be an Amiga, but Commodore would only provide a computer 
if they bought it. Apple was willing to loan them the Mac.
 <--- Commodore marketing in action.
Graham
18-May-2009
[4059]
someone lent them an Atari portfolio for Terminator
Geomol
18-May-2009
[4060x3]
Reminds me of the START project at MIT.
http://start.csail.mit.edu/


Remember the strange hokus-pokus REBOL script, I wrote some years 
ago?

>> do http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebol/hokus-pokus.r
>> hokus-pokus "What is the highest point in Canada?"

Canada
highest point: Mount Logan 5,959 m

>> hokus-pokus "What is the volume of the Earth?"

The volume of Earth is 108.321  (1010 km3).

etc...
Other strange use:

>> hokus-pokus/quote "Hitchhiker"

Ford: [watching the Magrathean recording of Deep Thought] Is that 
it?
Zaphod: No, there's more. They go back.
Arthur: What, seven and a half million years later?
Zaphod: Yeah, they do.

>> hokus-pokus #00113f
== 0.17.63
>> hokus-pokus/translate "Yeah, they do." "en2de"

Ja, sie tun.

:-) I use this too little.
Maxim
18-May-2009
[4063]
start is probably where wolfram got his idea from.
Sunanda
24-May-2009
[4064]
Surprising conclusion on Gregory Higley's blog?:

<....I’ve come to the realization that JavaScript is the language 
in common use that’s most akin to REBOL.>
http://blog.revolucent.net/2009/05/javascript-rebol.html
BrianH
24-May-2009
[4065x3]
JavaScript is a strict subset of the R3 semantics, though there's 
hidden stuff that isn't hidden in REBOL, and particular implementations 
can include standard objects that have no analog in REBOL. There's 
no corresponding concept for JavaScript's objects in R2, but the 
R3 map! type is close enough.
The "hidden stuff" is the prototype message delegation, which can 
be done in REBOL explicitly.
On an implementtation level, JavaScript being compiled means that 
code really is code, rather than data for an interpreter. So JS is 
more like a subset of what R3 pretends to be, rather than what it 
is :)
Chris
24-May-2009
[4068]
Hmm, DOM (ok, not really what he means, but still vaguely similar):

	http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=xml-dom.r
	http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qxml.html(slightly newer)
Paul
25-May-2009
[4069]
Very cool project managment site.  http://www.attask.com/
Robert
25-May-2009
[4070]
Looks pretty good.
Janko
25-May-2009
[4071]
they have "View demo" button that leads to some not so small form 
to fill, on that page there is try @task that leads to even slightly 
bigger form
Chris
25-May-2009
[4072]
Shame there's no product tour (without, I presume, signing up)
Reichart
25-May-2009
[4073x2]
You also need to have a minimum number of people to use it.  In other 
words, you have to sort of buy in all hog from what I understand...
But they do have some cool features...
Paul
25-May-2009
[4075]
You can get more of a feel for it here.  http://www.attask.com/overview/product-tour/project-management
Henrik
28-May-2009
[4076]
Future spacecraft can use pulsars as an interstellar GPS with a precision 
of one meter:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23576/
Reichart
28-May-2009
[4077]
Great, the aliens "will" find us....
Graham
31-May-2009
[4078x3]
Google's new collaboration tool http://wave.google.com/
Kind of underwhelming.
The spelling corrector spelly looks interesting.
Pekr
31-May-2009
[4081]
I already pointed to in in Links group. Looks interesting. I thing 
that we might have here some chance with R3. Maybe, as a "killer 
app", we could think of alternative client frond-end for services, 
which have public APIs. That way such clients might be downloaded 
by millions, making REBOL a bit more popular :-)
Henrik
2-Jun-2009
[4082]
Project Natal for XBox 360 looks very interesting:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/
Pekr
2-Jun-2009
[4083]
utopia ....
Henrik
2-Jun-2009
[4084]
http://kotaku.com/5274554/molyneuxs-milo-brings-a-virtual-child-to-the-xbox-360?autoplay=true

How it's used.
Pekr
2-Jun-2009
[4085]
I like this one - http://www.camspace.com/- allows you to take any 
object for navigation ...
Henrik
16-Jun-2009
[4086]
A new type of harddisk designed to compete with SSD. Very interesting:

http://www.dataslide.com/
Gabriele
16-Jun-2009
[4087]
that looks very cool!