I've just sat in front of Wolfram - the new computational knowledge engine. It took twenty minutes to find a reasonable use for me. I'm a Scrabble nut - it's got a good anagram finder for a possible seven letter word from the tiles you're holding - Byron Newman Beware!
For the techie it can get information about an IP address or a URL, find a port assignment, compute a data transfer time, look up a Unicode character, compute display characteristics from pixel count as well as a host of other useful stuff from Demographic stats to Astrophysics.
It's answer to the tongue twister "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?" was a reasonable "A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood."
And to "How many strings to my bow"?
| b | m | o | w | y | bebo | my | ow | y | bo | bow | my | y b | bow | my b | y do | my do | y bow | my bow
Comments (1)
I like your style! And, indeed, Wolfram's. Reminds me of the pre-programmed responses to clever-clogs questions in old Infocom games... Not sure how it got 'bebo' or 'do' as strings from 'my bow' though...
Posted by Rebecca Froley | May 28, 2009 3:54 PM
Posted on May 28, 2009 15:54