Wolfram Alpha
rlsinclair :lta, 19. toukokuuta 2009
Viestejä: 23
Kieli: English
Abii (Näytä profiilli) 19. toukokuuta 2009 22.51.58
typical translation length | 0.94 x English lengthEven though its probable it's wrong, the idea of measuring how much "longer" a language is is very interesting.
jan aleksan (Näytä profiilli) 20. toukokuuta 2009 13.01.20
Abii:It seems that it's something that native english speakers are interested of because english is considered as a concise language (and it is certainly true, when you translate english to french, it's generally longer).typical translation length | 0.94 x English lengthEven though its probable it's wrong, the idea of measuring how much "longer" a language is is very interesting.
But sometimes people rilates this to a kind of quality proof of a language, which is not necesarily true. It's more a confort feature.
So, to sum it up, if a french would have made this wolfram Alpha, I'm not sure this info would have appeared.
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ceigered (Näytä profiilli) 20. toukokuuta 2009 16.49.35
But I like the looks of this site after a bit of experimentation. I think the prob is that it is severly limited in quantity, quality and usability of information (for instance, I would love to be able to type "translate "hello" to finnish" but alas it doesn't work that way)
RiotNrrd (Näytä profiilli) 21. toukokuuta 2009 1.24.55
jan aleksan:So, to sum it up, if a french would have made this wolfram Alpha, I'm not sure this info would have appeared.Or they would have gotten more of their facts straight. Who would know better, after all? What with Esperanto coming from France (or so I've heard).
jan aleksan (Näytä profiilli) 21. toukokuuta 2009 8.48.22
RiotNrrd:Interpret "France" as :somewhere where "supposed-to-be-good" ideas never succeed :/jan aleksan:So, to sum it up, if a french would have made this wolfram Alpha, I'm not sure this info would have appeared.Or they would have gotten more of their facts straight. Who would know better, after all? What with Esperanto coming from France (or so I've heard).
ceigered (Näytä profiilli) 21. toukokuuta 2009 11.51.18
R2D2!:Try lookıng for “hi”ha ha ha! Hilarious!
Type in Goodbye and it responds with
"Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input"
Poor thing, it can't cope with saying goodbyes
I was pleasantly surprised to find that Australia has a higher life expectancy than France, Sweden and Norway, all of which I had viewed as having a higher life expectancy than us Aussies.
I also found that apparently the next most spoken language is Torres Strait Creole (0.15%), something I've never heard of. But this does ignore the fact that 1.9% of the population speak Italian at home. Ok, so maybe Wolfram thought that Italians were a non-native minority. But even then, after Australian, English, Irish and Scottish, Italian is like the next big "we came from this place!" group in Australia.... oh well...
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_Strait_Creole, actually quite interesting now that I've had a wee look at it).
Abii (Näytä profiilli) 21. toukokuuta 2009 12.10.25
jan aleksan (Näytä profiilli) 21. toukokuuta 2009 12.58.04
ceigered (Näytä profiilli) 21. toukokuuta 2009 13.15.59
What is your name?
How old are you?
What are you?
Who am I?
Can you speak French?
Who made you?
Can you dance?
Where do you come from?
Things like "What is my name?", asking it about its orientation, or asking "Do you love me?" or "Are you a robot?" ends up with answers like "Human Discourse: Additional functionality for this topic is under development...". It also thinks Love is a language.
It also knows what it itself is, but it doesn't know what that means
andogigi (Näytä profiilli) 23. toukokuuta 2009 13.42.41
