If you haven’t checked out Wolfram|Alpha yet, it’s worth 15 minutes. The website describes it as such:
Today’s Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer
As anyone would do when checking out a new search engine, I conducted a vanity search only to realize it can’t “compute” my name, but it can compute my first name, which is what is pictured above. Apparently my name was more popular pre-1960 and supposedly there are ~99k people alive with the name Tom.
I’m not sure how that helps me, but it’s interesting to know. And that’s my take on Wolfram|Alpha: it’s interesting, but I’m not sure how it helps me as of yet. It’s like the Rain Man search engine.
