Re: Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg99916] Re: Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
- From: dbreiss at gmail.com
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 06:45:26 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200905160920.FAA26822@smc.vnet.net> <200905162224.SAA16389@smc.vnet.net>
Give it time.... On May 18, 2:29 am, Murray Eisenberg <mur... at math.umass.edu> wrote: > 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/BE34..=
- References:
- 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