T-5 days to Towel Day Edition – Wolfram Alpha style

By Kevin A. Thompson | May 20th, 2009

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T-5 days to Towel Day Edition – Wolfram Alpha style

20thMay. × ’09
By Kevin A. Thompson

We’re now 5 days away from the Towel Day edition of Blawg Review. I still need your pictures with your towels for inclusion in the Review with a link back. Please send the pictures to kthompson@cyberlawcentral.com, G or PG rated only please!

Have you seen the new Wolfram Alpha computational engine? You can type in a query like “Compare the GDP of the US to France” and it will give you that answer. Pretty cool stuff. For you Hitchhikers fans, you can type in “What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?” and get the following result:
wolfram-42

That’s right – 42!!!

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  1. By Cyberlaw Central » Blawg Review #213 on May 25, 2009 at 2:41 am

    [...] a reliable, albeit less intelligent, substitute for Marvin or that other paranoid entity, Google. Here’s my post about Wolfram Alpha and what happens when you ask it for “the Answer to Life, the Universe, and [...]

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