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Wolfram Alpha Architecture
- ulf 17y agoMisleading title again, no really interesting details...
- sdfgfdgfd 17y agoI dont get what walpha has to do with ankos. Is it just for the hype? I doubt walpha uses cellular automata to create the answers.
- sachmanb 17y agoim amused that the highscalability.com domain being linked to is not responding to my web request. timed out too many times. i'll heed ulf's comment and move on. if it's that good, i'm sure it'll come up 20 more times....
- huhtenberg 17y agoThe interesting part of their article is a trivial rehash of this one: http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/12/the-computers-powering-computable-knowledge/ http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/12/the-computers-poweri...
- mojuba 17y agoHis other web site he mentions here: http://tones.wolfram.com/ http://tones.wolfram.com/ is just pathetic. I wrote a jazz improvization machine 18 years ago which played more sensible music some jazz fans even kind of liked, but it was as useless as this "new kind of" crap. Music is an abstract language we, humans, speak to express ourselves. You can't touch hearts and souls by generating random sequences within a given scale. I hope Alpha turns out to be more useful, but good Lord, this man's narcissism case should be included in psychology textbooks.
- endtime 17y ago>Music is an abstract language we, humans, speak to express ourselves. You can't touch hearts and souls by generating random sequences within a given scale. What if you randomly generated something that was identical to a famous piece of music? Is there a reason why that couldn't happen? And, if not, recognize that it doesn't actually depend on the prior human creation of the piece...so I don't see why, in theory, you couldn't randomly generate (or grow via GA or whatever) a good piece of music.
- mojuba 17y agoMusic is not just notes. With the exception of some of the modern genres (dance/electronica mostly) music is performed by people and truly good music has nuances not seen in the scores. There are performances of Bach that I'd turn off after 20 seconds, and there are those I keep in my music collection for years, if not decades. Performaces differ dramatically. Or take Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here - was it the scores, or rather Gilmour's unique articulation on the guitar that made us listen to this album? How about John Coltrane's emotional outbursts on the sax? Nina Simone's cosmic-deep vocals? Music is a far more subtle art, not yet understood from the point of view of Cognitive Science. What random notes are you talking about?
- crescendo 17y agoIf you keep generating random series of tones, eventually you will end up with Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here or any other piece ever recorded.
- jaydub 17y agoFor co-located servers who pays the energy bill?
- wmf 17y agoUsually the data center charges a certain rate for each circuit and the customer can consume as much or as little as they want (short of blowing the breaker).