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Re: Are you wolfing tonight?

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• Subject: [mg100008] Re: Are you wolfing tonight?
• From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 00:17:16 -0400 (EDT)
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I have the feeling you don't understand what Alpha is about. It's not
a search engine.

On May 20, 10:58 am, J=E1nos L=F6bb <janos.l... at yale.edu> wrote:
> On May 19, 2009, at 7:01 AM, magma wrote:
>
> > Are you wolfing tonight?
> > Not yet the title of a new pop song, but wolfing (or walphing) is the
> > new thing to do on the net. Not necessarily lonesome.
>
> > Wolfram|Alpha went live in test mode at 8:48pm CST on Friday 15th May.
> > While its fictional "city" cousin HAL comes from Urbana, W/A is
> > perhaps more "rural" coming from Champaign :-)
> > It can't yet play chess and hasn't killed anybody yet, but it's
> > nevertheless a killer app.
>
> Yes, it is a killer app.  It kills itself !!
>
>   Just type into it "Ampere's law" and watch what do you get.
>
> Or, if You do not want to bother yourself with such bagatelle, type
> in: "Map of lung cancer in Connecticut"  and see what is unfolding.
>
> J=E1nos
>
> P.S.  Of course if I type the same in Google, I am getting something.

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    • From: magma <maderri2@gmail.com>