Comments on: A Simple Question http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-simple-question thoughts, lessons, observations, and experiences from a life's journey Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: legacy daily http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/#comment-4935 legacy daily Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:04 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=287#comment-4935 Jeff: Working many hours lately with little time to do anything else but that's not a good excuse not to indulge in writing a few words here and there. I have been reading whenever I find a few minutes. Thank you for visiting and reminding about the need to do something other than work. Jeff: Working many hours lately with little time to do anything else but that’s not a good excuse not to indulge in writing a few words here and there. I have been reading whenever I find a few minutes. Thank you for visiting and reminding about the need to do something other than work.

]]> By: Jeff Watson http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/#comment-4934 Jeff Watson Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:29:53 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=287#comment-4934 LD, When are you going to post again....Inquiring minds want to know:) Jeff LD, When are you going to post again….Inquiring minds want to know:)

Jeff

]]> By: Jeff Watson http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/#comment-4924 Jeff Watson Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:39:27 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=287#comment-4924 LD, Great post and you can have fun asking sophistic questions. But as always, Rocky asks the best questions as he has an inquiring mind. Jeff LD,

Great post and you can have fun asking sophistic questions. But as always, Rocky asks the best questions as he has an inquiring mind.

Jeff

]]> By: Rocky Humbert http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/#comment-4923 Rocky Humbert Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:44:56 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=287#comment-4923 LD: Thanks. That's bizarre but interesting. On my first click it said AAPL & INTC were going to lose 80% of their value by 2011. I clicked "New Random Walk" and the results changed dramatically (to a profit from a loss.) Looks to me like this curious service is provided as a courtesy by your local "full-service" (and full commission) broker! LD: Thanks. That’s bizarre but interesting. On my first click it said AAPL & INTC were going to lose 80% of their value by 2011. I clicked “New Random Walk” and the results changed dramatically (to a profit from a loss.)

Looks to me like this curious service is provided as a courtesy by your local “full-service” (and full commission) broker!

]]> By: legacy daily http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/#comment-4922 legacy daily Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:50:22 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=287#comment-4922 Hi Rocky: <a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple+intel" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Here's an example</a>. Scroll down until you find a section called "Projections:" and click on the "New random walk" a few times to see different pictures of the future. You can even tell it to look 6 months, 1 or 2 years into the future. Hi Rocky: Here’s an example. Scroll down until you find a section called “Projections:” and click on the “New random walk” a few times to see different pictures of the future. You can even tell it to look 6 months, 1 or 2 years into the future.

]]> By: Rocky Humbert http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/#comment-4921 Rocky Humbert Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:35:46 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=287#comment-4921 LD: How did you ask it about the future price of a stock? I tried various queries and only received gibberish for an answer... thanks LD: How did you ask it about the future price of a stock? I tried various queries and only received gibberish for an answer… thanks

]]> By: legacy daily http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/#comment-4919 legacy daily Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:59:21 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=287#comment-4919 Rocky: They must be getting some strange questions. Yours are the more straightforward ones. It's interesting how the machine does random walk projection of a stock's price even for multiple stocks. Clicking on it a few times and seeing completely different depictions of the future I found very educational. Looks like it even takes into consideration the correlations. The machine that predicts the future changes it. Rocky: They must be getting some strange questions. Yours are the more straightforward ones. It’s interesting how the machine does random walk projection of a stock’s price even for multiple stocks. Clicking on it a few times and seeing completely different depictions of the future I found very educational. Looks like it even takes into consideration the correlations. The machine that predicts the future changes it.

]]> By: Rocky Humbert http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/#comment-4917 Rocky Humbert Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:20:23 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=287#comment-4917 I enter: "do aliens exist?" Wolfram answers: "Extraterrestrial Life: Development of this topic is under investigation." I enter: "Does god exist?" Wolfram answer: "I'm sorry, but a poor computational knowledge engine, no matter how powerful, is not capable of providing a simple answer to that question." I enter: "Where can I buy Superbowl tickets?" Wolfram answers: "Wolfram isn't sure how to compute an answer from your input." My conclusion: the shareholders of Google and the residents of The Vatican will get at least one more night of restful sleep. I enter: “do aliens exist?”
Wolfram answers: “Extraterrestrial Life: Development of this topic is under investigation.”

I enter: “Does god exist?”
Wolfram answer: “I’m sorry, but a poor computational knowledge engine, no matter how powerful, is not capable of providing a simple answer to that question.”

I enter: “Where can I buy Superbowl tickets?”
Wolfram answers: “Wolfram isn’t sure how to compute an answer from your input.”

My conclusion: the shareholders of Google and the residents of The Vatican will get at least one more night of restful sleep.

]]> By: legacy daily http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/#comment-4912 legacy daily Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:34:11 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=287#comment-4912 Don: I'm also very much impressed. It recognized my input in Armenian and told me in Armenian that it wasn't able to support my language yet. The question I asked is hard to translate. "Inch" means "What", "ka" means "there is" or "is there", and "chka" means "there isn't" or "isn't there". Maybe equivalent to "What's up?" or "What's new?" or "What's going on in the [or your] world?" :) PS. Thanks for the music posts. Don: I’m also very much impressed. It recognized my input in Armenian and told me in Armenian that it wasn’t able to support my language yet. The question I asked is hard to translate. “Inch” means “What”, “ka” means “there is” or “is there”, and “chka” means “there isn’t” or “isn’t there”. Maybe equivalent to “What’s up?” or “What’s new?” or “What’s going on in the [or your] world?” :)

PS. Thanks for the music posts.

]]> By: Don Chu http://legacydaily.com/2009/10/a-simple-question/#comment-4910 Don Chu Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:22:34 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=287#comment-4910 legacy, Mathematica was one of the symbolic packages we used back in school, and most of the professors swear by it (and we swore at it). Seriously, amongst the symbolic-numerical software we were using, Mathematica probably had the most complete library of functions. So, I was intrigued when Wolfram launched Wolfram/Alpha earlier this year, and when I read their statement like the one you posted above, my first reaction was: babel-databases all over again...and the sheer audacity of the claim! But after playing around some on their 'knowledge engine', I have to say I was rather impressed with their ability to receive free-form input and return arguably useable results thus far. [The crux of obtaining a reasonable response to any query, of course lies in how the query is structured and even more important, the 'suitability' of the person/database/system to whom/which the query is posed] While Stephen Wolfram is no Hari Seldon, if Wolfram/Alpha somehow manages to eclipse Google, we may have a new nominee for the anti-C. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Seldon Don [May I know what was the age-old question asked?] legacy,

Mathematica was one of the symbolic packages we used back in school, and most of the professors swear by it (and we swore at it).
Seriously, amongst the symbolic-numerical software we were using, Mathematica probably had the most complete library of functions.
So, I was intrigued when Wolfram launched Wolfram/Alpha earlier this year, and when I read their statement like the one you posted above, my first reaction was: babel-databases all over again…and the sheer audacity of the claim!

But after playing around some on their ‘knowledge engine’, I have to say I was rather impressed with their ability to receive free-form input and return arguably useable results thus far.
[The crux of obtaining a reasonable response to any query, of course lies in how the query is structured and even more important, the 'suitability' of the person/database/system to whom/which the query is posed]

While Stephen Wolfram is no Hari Seldon, if Wolfram/Alpha somehow manages to eclipse Google, we may have a new nominee for the anti-C.
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Seldon

Don

[May I know what was the age-old question asked?]

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