I don’t often review other things, except when they’re really cool. Two days ago I talked about how the Internet is quickly going to become a God-type entity, if it doesn’t quality already. Five days ago, although I didn’t know it at the time, the internet got a lot smarter.

Enter Wolfram|Alpha.

So what do they have to say for themselves?:

Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that we intend will deliver increasing capabilities over the years and decades to come. With a world-class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, our goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement.

And what do they want to do?

Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

And there are a ton of things you can do with it.

• It can solve algebraic equations, which alone makes it a great addition to the internet.
• It automatically outdoes itself by also solving complex systems, making it probably the best calculator ever.
• It doesn’t even require use of algebra with x as a variable.
• It graphs anything. Even really complex things.
• It finds derivatives and antiderivatives.

And that’s just math!

You can explore many other facets of Wolfram|Alpha, such as:

• Find out how old you are down to the day, among other things, by tying in your birthday.
• Distances between places, including flight paths.
• Location of Mars in the night sky.
• Fill in blanks for your crossword puzzle.
• Find the dew point in your local city.
• Find information on your favourite domain names.
• Find out who wrote your favourite book.
• Analyze select music tones.
• Compare select geometric figures
• Find out our GDP.
• And many more!

 

However, Wolfram|Alpha is not without imperfections. Here are a few things it can’t find the answer to.

Followed up by: Wolfram|Alpha is Listening




Coolest… thing… ever…

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