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Re: Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica

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  • Subject: [mg99863] Re: [mg99850] Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 18:24:49 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Alas, the tool may be of limited value right now, because Wolfram|Alpha 
is overloaded to the point of barely working.  That's on a Saturday 
morning about 10:20 a.m. EDT.

Even when I browsed directly to wolframalpha.com, it took several 
minutes for the home page to load.  Then, when I typed in a query (my 
birthdate), I got back a message:

   "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that...
    Wolfram|Alpha has temporarily exceeded its
    current maximum test load.
    See the live video feed of the Control Center>>"

Several minutes later, I tried again. I got a report back almost 
immediately giving the Input interpretation and showing a date format, 
but below that just 6 progress bars that kept running for several 
minutes until I gave up.

Next, I typed in one of the suggested math formulas: x^2 sin(x). I got 
back information about that -- graphs, an alternate form using complex 
exponentials, roots, series expansion, ..., almost immediately!  (But 
perhaps that one was already cached on the site?)


David Reiss wrote:
> With the release of Wolfram|Alpha I have created a small tool that
> allows you to send a query to Wolfram|Alpha directly from Mathematica.
> 
> The tool is a simple dialog with an input field where you can type a
> query to be sent to Wolfram|Alpha.
> 
> After entering your query in the input field simply click on the
> "Wolfram|Alpha Lookup" button and the query will be sent to Wolfram|
> Alpha via your default web browser.
> 
> You can download the tool from here:
> 
> http://www.scientificarts.com/mathematicatools/blog/
> 
> or here:
> 
> http://www.scientificarts.com/mathematicatools/blog/BE3451431867/BE3451431867.html
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> --David
> 

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