So over the weekend Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica fame launched his new venture that of a knowledge database named Wolfram|Alpha. It is supposed to be a something that gathers and looks at data in interesting ways in response to queries. Here is an excerpt from their About page that summarizes the general goal of Wolfram Alpha:
Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.
It isn’t really like any search engine or anything, but it does provide some interesting info if you give it the right query. Here are some interesting things I have learned:
Clark is 25th most common surname in the United States
The University of Michigan’s motto is Artes, Scientia Veritas (Art, Science, Truth)
The meaning of life is 42.
Beavercreek is at an altitude of ~873 ft above sea level.
I am 8672 days old
But what I think it is particularly useful for is for more science relate things…I did a few searches on chemicals today gives some good info:
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