Comments on: This is why the Internet was made http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/ a group of adventurers on an epic quest Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:28:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Julian http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/comment-page-1/#comment-31441 Julian Fri, 15 May 2009 16:46:21 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=3989#comment-31441 Shadow, see if you can access this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/wolfram-alpha-computes-answers-to-factual-questions-this-is-going-to-be-big/ Shadow, see if you can access this:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/08/wolfram-alpha-computes-answers-to-factual-questions-this-is-going-to-be-big/

]]> By: ShadowWAR http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/comment-page-1/#comment-31434 ShadowWAR Fri, 15 May 2009 15:23:22 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=3989#comment-31434 Anyone mind explaining a bit more on what it does exactly? At work and can't get to that site (yet oddly all blogs are wide open to me, I take what I can get). Anyone mind explaining a bit more on what it does exactly? At work and can’t get to that site (yet oddly all blogs are wide open to me, I take what I can get).

]]> By: Julian http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/comment-page-1/#comment-31431 Julian Fri, 15 May 2009 14:35:18 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=3989#comment-31431 An awesome application of this kind of tech (should they ever license it, and they should) would be game metrics. Once you start feeding it the numbers and you let it build its databases, the kind of queries and comparisons you could throw to this thing would simplify the process of getting important information from your metrics, and maybe let you do things with it you couldn't do before without a lot of time and effort. Silly query: "What's the most popular caster weapon for troll mages with green hair?" Not so silly query: "Average player afk time / location" Great query: "Most popular build per class per patch release" An awesome application of this kind of tech (should they ever license it, and they should) would be game metrics.

Once you start feeding it the numbers and you let it build its databases, the kind of queries and comparisons you could throw to this thing would simplify the process of getting important information from your metrics, and maybe let you do things with it you couldn’t do before without a lot of time and effort.

Silly query: “What’s the most popular caster weapon for troll mages with green hair?”

Not so silly query: “Average player afk time / location”

Great query: “Most popular build per class per patch release”

]]> By: Robert Schultz http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/comment-page-1/#comment-31428 Robert Schultz Fri, 15 May 2009 13:42:57 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=3989#comment-31428 I thought the internet was made for this: http://worldofsolitaire.com :) I thought the internet was made for this: http://worldofsolitaire.com :)

]]> By: Andrew http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/comment-page-1/#comment-31423 Andrew Fri, 15 May 2009 05:23:29 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=3989#comment-31423 @Rog: I guess the database(s) the site is pulling information from will grow over time. Wikipedia wasn't as broad as it is now when it first started. Hopefully this does live up to its own hype. It would be a very valuable resource for school kids. @Rog: I guess the database(s) the site is pulling information from will grow over time. Wikipedia wasn’t as broad as it is now when it first started.

Hopefully this does live up to its own hype. It would be a very valuable resource for school kids.

]]> By: Rog http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/comment-page-1/#comment-31422 Rog Fri, 15 May 2009 05:10:44 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=3989#comment-31422 It's nice as a demo, but will it work as presented when released? Word from the testers is that it's "incomplete", more impressive on selected searches. It's also assuming that the info you want is generally in numbers and graphs, which if you want those things it's quicker than perusing the Wikipedia articles (that are probably the largest source this parses). Meanwhile, you can already put computations into Google. I'm not saying it's the same / competing with Google, I'm just saying it's doing some things that are already done, just displaying and sorting in clear, concise ways (but again, will it be that clear on release?). I dunno, it's cool, but doesn't seem like a big revolutionary leap to me, just good progress. Heh, I think the wife comment is a bit telling, because this strikes me a bit as a male-geek thing. Excuse my generalizations, but the love of organized graphs is one of those few things that I think does have a gender "boys with their toys" thing. It’s nice as a demo, but will it work as presented when released? Word from the testers is that it’s “incomplete”, more impressive on selected searches.

It’s also assuming that the info you want is generally in numbers and graphs, which if you want those things it’s quicker than perusing the Wikipedia articles (that are probably the largest source this parses).

Meanwhile, you can already put computations into Google. I’m not saying it’s the same / competing with Google, I’m just saying it’s doing some things that are already done, just displaying and sorting in clear, concise ways (but again, will it be that clear on release?).

I dunno, it’s cool, but doesn’t seem like a big revolutionary leap to me, just good progress.

Heh, I think the wife comment is a bit telling, because this strikes me a bit as a male-geek thing. Excuse my generalizations, but the love of organized graphs is one of those few things that I think does have a gender “boys with their toys” thing.

]]> By: sagestl http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/comment-page-1/#comment-31421 sagestl Fri, 15 May 2009 04:33:13 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=3989#comment-31421 That's just fantastic. That’s just fantastic.

]]> By: Dblade http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/comment-page-1/#comment-31418 Dblade Thu, 14 May 2009 22:33:17 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=3989#comment-31418 too bad that link doesn't seem to work on my version of google chrome. I guess some of us will wait a little longer than others. too bad that link doesn’t seem to work on my version of google chrome. I guess some of us will wait a little longer than others.

]]> By: Sok http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/comment-page-1/#comment-31417 Sok Thu, 14 May 2009 21:56:02 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=3989#comment-31417 ADDENDUM:...although my wife was disappointed because it had nothing to do with <a href="http://www.cityofangel.com/characters/wolframHart.html" rel="nofollow">Wolfram & Hart.</a> It was her first observation, and this saddens me. ADDENDUM:…although my wife was disappointed because it had nothing to do with Wolfram & Hart. It was her first observation, and this saddens me.

]]> By: Sok http://www.killtenrats.com/2009/05/14/this-is-why-the-internet-was-made/comment-page-1/#comment-31416 Sok Thu, 14 May 2009 21:10:13 +0000 http://www.killtenrats.com/?p=3989#comment-31416 That is thirty-nine different flavors of awesome. That is thirty-nine different flavors of awesome.

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