Re: Re: Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg99868] Re: [mg99863] Re: [mg99850] Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 02:29:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Later this morning (Saturday) and at various times in the afternoon, the response was quite reasonable. From time to time I'd still encounter a "I'm sorry Dave" message, but typically if I waited a few seconds and re-submitted the query, the normal response followed. What I did not know until I watched the pre-launch video at justin.tv was that this weekend is NOT supposed to be a normal up-time, but rather a public test run. Murray Eisenberg wrote: > 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 >> > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
- From: David Reiss <dbreiss@gmail.com>
- Re: Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
- Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica