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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: sully! on May 15, 2009, 12:25:19 PM

Title: Wolfram Alpha launches TONIGHT!
Post by: sully! on May 15, 2009, 12:25:19 PM
You've got questions, Wolfram Alpha has the answers, tonight at 8PM EDT!

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html (http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html)

Countdown to the Wolfram|Alpha Launch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_Tmd8ziLQ#ws-lq-lq2-hq)

List of questions I'm going to ask first:

Title: Re: Wolfram Alpha launches TONIGHT!
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on May 15, 2009, 01:15:58 PM
I was thinking of asking:

What is your favorite color?
 
     -and-

What is the airspeed velocity of a fully laden swallow?
Title: Re: Wolfram Alpha launches TONIGHT!
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on May 15, 2009, 01:23:19 PM
Quote from: Rathe on May 15, 2009, 01:15:58 PM
What is the airspeed velocity of a fully laden swallow?

African or European?
Title: Re: Wolfram Alpha launches TONIGHT!
Post by: The Shoctor on May 15, 2009, 01:35:21 PM
How about deploying sheep's bladders for protecting against earthquakes?
Title: Re: Wolfram Alpha launches TONIGHT!
Post by: sully! on May 15, 2009, 10:52:51 PM
Booo...hisss!

I didn't get to try it out until just now and it was only live for about 10 minutes before they took it offline. I guess tonight was just a trial run.

I did get to answer my above questions, though.

1. Why is the sky blue? Basically the way light is scattered as it moves through the atmosphere (which I already knew)

2. What is the meaning of life? 42 (did you expect anything different?)

3. How is babby formed? WA didn't understand this one. As the above videos said, this is just the beginning so maybe one day WA will be able to answer this one ;)
Title: Re: Wolfram Alpha launches TONIGHT!
Post by: Agent4054 on May 16, 2009, 01:14:15 AM
Quote from: sully on May 15, 2009, 10:52:51 PM
3. How is babby formed?

What's babby? Some kind of meat sauce? ;)
Title: Re: Wolfram Alpha launches TONIGHT!
Post by: sully! on May 17, 2009, 03:33:38 PM
I thought you were up on all of the latest memes. Originally a Yahoo Answers post then SA got a hold of it....

http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf (http://www.somethingawful.com/flash/shmorky/babby.swf)