Wolfram Alpha
从 rlsinclair, 2009年5月19日
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语言: English
jan aleksan (显示个人资料) 2009年5月20日下午1:01:20
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 (显示个人资料) 2009年5月20日下午4:49:35
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 (显示个人资料) 2009年5月21日上午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 (显示个人资料) 2009年5月21日上午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 (显示个人资料) 2009年5月21日上午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).
ceigered (显示个人资料) 2009年5月21日下午1:15:59
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
