http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/index.php/2009/05/does-wolfram-alpha-live-up-to-the-hype/ A blog of recreational math and coding Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:05:34 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/index.php/2009/05/does-wolfram-alpha-live-up-to-the-hype/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Nathaniel Mon, 18 May 2009 21:15:48 +0000 http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/?p=298#comment-158 Yeah, I was just surprised that it doesn't have *any* information about Conway's Game of Life, considering Wolfram is himself a cellular automaton guru. Entering things like "Rule 90" or "Rule 110" displays information about those cellular automata, but the most well-known automaton of all somehow didn't make the cut. Yeah, I was just surprised that it doesn’t have *any* information about Conway’s Game of Life, considering Wolfram is himself a cellular automaton guru. Entering things like “Rule 90″ or “Rule 110″ displays information about those cellular automata, but the most well-known automaton of all somehow didn’t make the cut.

]]> http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/index.php/2009/05/does-wolfram-alpha-live-up-to-the-hype/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Elithrion Mon, 18 May 2009 20:59:45 +0000 http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/?p=298#comment-157 To be fair, it's still in early development and your query wasn't in the right format. You should have been asking something like "smallest spaceship in conway's game of life"... not that that returns results, but at least it has a numerical/factual answer which this should be able to fetch eventually. If you search for "chess", it returns information on a plant too, you know. To be fair, it’s still in early development and your query wasn’t in the right format. You should have been asking something like “smallest spaceship in conway’s game of life”… not that that returns results, but at least it has a numerical/factual answer which this should be able to fetch eventually. If you search for “chess”, it returns information on a plant too, you know.

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