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Wolfram Alpha
#31
Posted 17 May 2009 - 06:01 AM
Another example... you just want to know the RDA of vitamin D... so put "RDA of vitamin D" into google and Wolfram... which can you find 400 UI quicker with?
#32
Posted 17 May 2009 - 03:33 PM
I have seen other questioner's come up with some interesting answers and I think it will be helpful in some ways, but I think it really needs to be opened up to more experts/users so the database can be more complete.
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#33
Posted 17 May 2009 - 05:31 PM
Argh... I meant IU not UI...which can you find 400 UI quicker with?
In that example, it should give you a 'related input' to try... which has the answer. But yes it still needs some work.I also asked "how many carbon atoms are in a mole?" No answer.
Edited by frankbuzin, 17 May 2009 - 05:40 PM.
#34
Posted 18 May 2009 - 06:54 PM
"are you an alien?"
response
"no I'm not"
But seriously, does need some work! I have spent a little while trying to get used to it, it can take a bit of time but it might be useful for a few things. I'm sure I'll be using it but no replacement for google or anything.
Edited by Matt, 18 May 2009 - 06:59 PM.
#35
Posted 19 May 2009 - 04:15 AM
BTW, it was actually of real help to me today: it calculated an integral for me that I had trouble with.
#36
Posted 19 May 2009 - 11:28 PM
BTW, it was actually of real help to me today: it calculated an integral for me that I had trouble with.
Yes, I was a bit too quick to judge (although I still feel this gadget will be of no use to me for a long time). It's good with calculus.
So now math student will also have the answers to the even problems.
#37
Posted 20 May 2009 - 02:32 AM
So now math student will also have the answers to the even problems.
The ones who haven't been packing a TI-89 for the last decade.
#38
Posted 20 May 2009 - 02:52 AM
#39
Posted 20 May 2009 - 04:43 AM
So now math student will also have the answers to the even problems.
The ones who haven't been packing a TI-89 for the last decade.
Hah, yeah you're right. Graphing calculators... that was one of the stupidest posts I've made in a while. (If you couldn't tell, math is not my passion)
#40
Posted 20 May 2009 - 06:43 AM
If he hasn't, and if I'm not completely crazy (which I most likely am), I think I can describe in 1 page what took him 1000...
I've been working these past couple nights, so I can only really absorb his ideas through audio... I was working yesterday morning, listening to a lecture he gave on his book, and a professor from UVa's commerce school took interest, generating a really interesting conversation. Thanks Wolfram!
#41
Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:31 PM
I was able to do a useful calculation with it that I could not have otherwise done without talking to a human being or spending hours practicing from a book
I can tell there are opportunities on learning new ways to think I had to try a couple things to list elements with density above 1 yet I can get it to make lists of unicode characters Its kind of artistic if you like chemistry: http://www61.wolfram...lements density
Sodium floats thus a chunk of sodium with a blob of something heavy with a detergent coating would make a hyper extreme sodium water demonstration
Magnesium hydride would float if you could make it just like carbon hydrides (polymers)
also using wolframalpha caused this idea http://www.halfbaker...20single_20atom
AFM tip more sensitive than a single atom
as amorphous elemental materials Cr as well as Zn may "have" the same density Thus just one Zn atom at the tip of a Cr AFM tip has higher resolution as e- perturbations are particular to that atoms quantum states
Rhodium as well as Thorium have wide nuclei with prim distances to highest occupied molecular orbital From a nanotechnological point of view with an amorphous mass density is reminiscent of which atoms have an average similar radius Thus if you ignore structure yttrium is about the same radius as titanium That means at an edge a Ti Yt linkage would be stronger Zn as well as Cr have the same density thus if you put Zn or Cr at a crystal of the other metal any effects are purely from absolute electronegativity rather than electronegativity as a function of atomic radius
You can isolate a nucleus effect from a crystal lattice effect thus you could create a new type of hypersensitive AFM tip based on something even more sensitive than the electrical charge on a crystal of pure element
Also there are some crazy density holes where the series skips wide possible densities; that could be used with separations
wolfram alpha may be an online communications evironment or companion that makes people think cleverer thoughts
#42
Posted 07 June 2009 - 02:16 AM
Edited by Ben - Aus, 07 June 2009 - 02:18 AM.
#43
Posted 07 June 2009 - 06:55 AM
1: volume of a sphere .7 microns in diameter
2: volume of a sphere .004 microns in diameter
3: 1.437x10^-15 / 2.681x10^-22
Result: 5,359,940
Any time I tried to combine this into a single question it couldn't get it.
#44
Posted 23 June 2009 - 05:46 PM
It still doesn't know "how many carbon atoms are in a mole?"
#45
Posted 29 June 2009 - 11:29 PM
#46
Posted 17 July 2009 - 05:11 PM
Consider finding out the distance between the capital of Finland and the capital of Sweden. In traditional Google search, you would first query the capital of Finland (that is Helsinki) and the capital of Sweden (that is Stockholm), and finally check the distance with Google Maps (it is about 200 miles).
In Wolfram Alpha you could simply query "distance from capital of finland to capital of sweden" and get the answer—all the "sub-queries" would be worked out automatically by Wolfram Alpha.
Or consider the query "earliest record by Beatles". Wolfram Alpha's natural language processor could transform this to the least ambiguous mathematical query first(sort(find-all(record,beatles), date)).
Such natural language processors have been researched for decades, but it is only now—thanks to the Internet—that they can have all the data available to them.
Edited by miklu, 17 July 2009 - 05:11 PM.
#47
Posted 19 July 2009 - 11:19 AM
#48
Posted 12 August 2009 - 07:23 PM
And apparently the number of atoms in males and female both estimated at 7x10^27 :D
I liked the ability for it to show a lot of chemical information,
I typed a name of a blood pressure medicine called Spironolactone and it gave me a lot of information, pictures, even 3D molecule image!
Human hormones like insulin, Prolactin didn't have an image.
Testosterone, Estrogen, Progesterones, did!
The average female and male height seems completely wrong O_o female showed 157 and males 168.
Might be including childs?
There is a graph showing where most seem to be and I think it shows females at about 165 or more and men around 175-177 which is so much more likely!
I could get the answer that females have 2 breasts usually! but noticing it said females I tried specifically males it said females anyways :D
Trying men and women both failed!
I actually tried to get the average bra size but nothing seems to work :D
Then again! the average penis size returns results! :D
the average length of an erect human penis (age > 17) is 15.1 cm! :D
In the bottom it says:
Corresponding quantity:
Light travels time t in vacuum from t = c/x:
504ps (picoseconds)
So I am guessing that means light only takes 504ps to travel through a men's penis.. that's short! :D
My first attempts using wolf-something were actually saying hello and how are you ! which he she it responds :D
Are you alive also yields answers :D
Are you stupid also works :D
Are you a cat? returns no I am not :(
j kinda like wolfie! trying to tell him/her/it that resulted in topic still under development :X guess I have to stick to my boyfriend and wait for AIs to get smarter! :D
#49
Posted 11 October 2009 - 01:25 PM
On a positive note, it can now handle more than 2 ingredients for computing nutrition labels.
#50
Posted 11 October 2009 - 04:39 PM
Edited by forever freedom, 11 October 2009 - 04:45 PM.
#51
Posted 11 January 2010 - 09:34 PM
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#52
Posted 10 February 2010 - 06:41 AM
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