Summa Minutiae: Wolfram Alpha

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Gray on Alpha

Wolfram Research co-founder Theo Gray (a.k.a. Popular Science's Mad Scientist) has a good article in PopSci about Wolfram Alpha.

Friday, May 15, 2009

7pm CST tonight

Wolfram Alpha goes live at 7pm CST tonight. The whole thing will be screencast live here, for better or worse, from the "launch center" here in Champaign. Here's a bit from BBC 4 about the launch, and a handy guide to British accents (of which there are four in that BBC piece).

Monday, May 4, 2009

Don't wet my pallet!

This guy unleashes a magnificent eggcorn - he wants to get my pallet all wet (see the end of the article). No, thank you. If I had pallets, I'd like to keep them dry and build a compost heap container with them. You may whet my palate, though, especially for things concerning Wolfram Alpha.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A first look at Wolfram Alpha

Here's a good writeup based on a demo tour given by Stephen Wolfram.

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