[vox] very cool web site

[jimbo]

Maybe comapring it to Google wasn't the right thing.

It is very hard to describe for me how cool this was.  Thats why watching 
the video helps explain my enthusiasm.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Norm Matloff" <matloff at cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [vox] very cool web site


>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:32:30AM -0700, jimbo wrote:
>
>> This is truly amazing and worth the time to see the intro all the way 
>> thru.
>
>> http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
>
> I didn't watch the video, but I did try the search engine, with useless
> but certainly humorous results.
>
> I plugged in my name, "Norm Matloff," and got, "Assuming 'Norm" is a
> probability distribution," which it expanded to "normal distribution."
>
> I then plugged in "Matloff," and got back "Interpreting 'Matloff'
> as 'meatloaf.'"
>
> :-)
>
> I'm sticking with Google. :-)
>
> Norm
>
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