Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live

Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by Radix on Friday May 08, 2009 @06:14PM (#600333)

What does "Orson Welles' filmography" return?

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Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by anigbrowl on Friday May 08, 2009 @06:38PM (#600373)

Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.

Like I say, I'm still finding out how to parse queries effectively, particularly for comparison data...in between working (cough).

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Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by rms on Friday May 08, 2009 @06:53PM (#600400)

How about "What is the complete list of films made by Orson Welles"?

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Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by sutro on Friday May 08, 2009 @06:57PM (#600410)

How about "What are Google's search results for 'Orson Welles filmography'?"

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Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by anigbrowl on Friday May 08, 2009 @07:10PM (#600434)

C'mon, you think I didn't try all those :-)

Until I get home (and can fire up Mathematica) I'm not sure how to do such symbolic queries. It's not Deep Thought - I feel like getting the most benefit from it would require some kind of Regex. Might be me. They haven't put the FAQs or tutorials up yet.

I do feel a lean towards computable rather than retrievable data, if that makes sense. I just started with that example as something I knew about that seemed to typify the popular imagination of how it might be used.

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Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by jlefo7p6 on Friday May 08, 2009 @07:02PM (#600417)

I guess Alpha could come with tech support to gently rearrange your questions, but it seems like cheating ;)

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