The Wolfram|Alpha Thread!

HMTKSteve

I've been seeing too many of these "Google-killer" articles. Why does everything have to be a xxxxx-killer these days?

I did ask it the one question I expect most of you would ask: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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Why does everything have to be a xxxxx-killer these days?

Sells more, even when, such as in this case, the product is unrelated to whatever it'll supposedly kill.

Anastius

I did ask it the one question I expect most of you would ask:What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

And it has an answer.

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I did ask it the one question I expect most of you would ask:What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

Andit has an answer.

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flux

I'd love this if it could take inputs like this.
EDIT: It actually does overflow at some point.

Anastius

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I did get it, but still.

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but still, I felt like I had to point out that clicking the first link on the page to tell Wolfram to use the data for a European swallow instead of the data for an African swallow would give a different, more 'usable', answer.

You're a genius, my apologies, lord. But could you hurry up with inventing time machines? You're behind on schedule, and I want to move on within two more years of this shit. Thanks.

Neito

I'd love this if it could take inputslike this.

In that vein, Something Awful messed around with it for a while.

Churba

Apparently, W|A is now extending into the philosophical.