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Yes, I use it regularly. Most common is for the kinds of things you might find in the CIA Factbook, or any number you'd expect to be buried in a Wikipedia page.
by dreeves 15y ago
Yes, I use it regularly. Most common is for the kinds of things you might find in the CIA Factbook, or any number you'd expect to be buried in a Wikipedia page.
The most recent thing I was impressed by was this:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+to+sunburn http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=time+to+sunburn
I also tried creating a widget with WolframAlpha that seemed potentially useful:
http://beeminder.com/agename.html http://beeminder.com/agename.html
(ie, getting a probability distribution on a person's age based on their first name)
- kilian 15y agoIt says my name is not a valid input, that's pretty harsh.
- wtn 15y agoSo did Renren, the China-based Facebook clone. Characters in the Latin alphabet do not count as names when one tries to sign up there :(
- T-R 15y agoThe sunburn one is a cool concept, but most of the data I put in tells me that sunburn is unlikely in Phoenix, AZ.