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I'll give you the Eye of Sauron example. I admit I haven't read the books, and I've seen the films once or maybe twice. For the other examples you mention: As
by zwegner 7y ago
I'll give you the Eye of Sauron example. I admit I haven't read the books, and I've seen the films once or maybe twice.
For the other examples you mention:
As ximeng mentioned, "ocean depth" here should refer to sea level. "Sea level" would probably have been a better wording.
Christ the Redeemer is a statue in Rio de Janeiro[1]. W|A can give answers for "length of blue whale", "number of blue whales", and "height of Christ the Redeemer" (but not arm span, which Wikipedia gives as 92 ft.). It's not much of a stretch to combine those to get an estimate of the answer.
The contents of every NYT issue should be available on the internet, and some of the other figures can be found on the internet without too much trouble: the font is 8.7pt Imperial[2], and there are on average 150k words per issue[3]. Of course, these are fairly obscure pieces of data, but W|A prides itself on pulling together lots of disparate data sources. And if you don't consider having a particular obscure piece of data to be intelligence, you could easily shift the question to be, "how might an AI pull this information from the internet using natural language processing?"
For the time zone example, I took it to mean time zone changes from traveling, not just from DST (hence "per day"), and the total duration refers to the amount the watch is changed, not how long it takes to change it. Though whether the question means "sum of absolute values of differences" or just "sum of differences" is unclear.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_(statue) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_(statue)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Print_newspaper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Print_newsp...
[3] https://www.quora.com/How-many-words-are-in-an-average-print-edition-of-the-New-York-Times https://www.quora.com/How-many-words-are-in-an-average-print...