You could get a situation with the bank where only the balance and history can be checked online. And do you know what it's like waking up in the middle of the night with your dog breathing on you while they kick and whimper at a rabbit they are dreaming about.
Wolfram|Alpha is more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, including science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music...
Arun Murthy, Release-Manager für Apache Hadoop 2.0, hat eine erste Alphaversion der kommenden Hadoop-Generation veröffentlicht, die unter anderem Hochverfügbarkeit für HDFS bietet und den
Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library, a graphing calculator, and a search engine. But does Wolfram Research's "computational knowledge engine," set to debut publicly later this month, live up to its hype as a Web site that Google needs to be afraid of? Wolfram Alpha creator Stephen Wolfram on Tuesday gave a demo of the service to a crowd of online reporters. Few have access to the private test version of the service itself, but we got access Monday night. We found it compelling, if limited. We're eager to see this site develop. It does things with online information that Google does not. Here are our impressions of the current version of Wolfram Alpha.
The GeoEye-1 satellite whizzes in low-Earth orbit, but when will it be taking photos over you? Alpha will show you on a map, in this case a 3D view of the globe that shows the satellite above Antarctica. It'll also tell you the satellite's 16,812-mph average velocity, its 428.4-mile altitude, and 98-minute orbital period. Photo by Stephen Shankland/CNET Caption by Stephen Shankland
S. Adams, P. Martini, K. Croxall, R. Overzier, and J. Silverman. (2014)cite arxiv:1407.2609Comment: Submitted to MNRAS (11 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables). For a brief video explaining this paper, see http://youtu.be/rRgsIV1q674.
M. Dijkstra. (2014)cite arxiv:1406.7292Comment: 27 pages, 19 figures. Invited review to be submitted to PASA following revision based on referee report.