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  1. #WolframAlpha recognises "loonie" as a synonym for "Canadian dollar": wolframalpha.com/input?i=loonie

    Annyoingly, it does not recognise "dollaridoo" as a synonym fo r"Australian dollar": wolframalpha.com/input?i=dolla

  2. Holy mackerel, I had no idea #qalculate could do this kind of stuff!!!

    rld@Intrepid:~$ qalc
    > 2^24 seconds
    
      (2^24) seconds = 194 d + 4 h + 20 min + 16 s
    
    > 2^32 seconds
    
      (2^32) seconds = 49710 d + 6 h + 28 min + 16 s
    
    > 2^32 milliseconds
    
      (2^32) milliseconds = 49 d + 17 h + 2 min + 47.296 s
    
    > 80 fahrenheit to celsius
    
      80 fahrenheit ≈ 26.66666667 °C
    
    > 
    

    This could nearly replace #WolframAlpha for me!!!

  3. Holy mackerel, I had no idea #qalculate could do this kind of stuff!!!

    rld@Intrepid:~$ qalc
    > 2^24 seconds
    
      (2^24) seconds = 194 d + 4 h + 20 min + 16 s
    
    > 2^32 seconds
    
      (2^32) seconds = 49710 d + 6 h + 28 min + 16 s
    
    > 2^32 milliseconds
    
      (2^32) milliseconds = 49 d + 17 h + 2 min + 47.296 s
    
    > 80 fahrenheit to celsius
    
      80 fahrenheit ≈ 26.66666667 °C
    
    > 
    

    This could nearly replace #WolframAlpha for me!!!

  4. Wolfram Blog: Checkmate! Dominate the Competition by Learning Game Theory with Wolfram Language. “I am glad to announce the launch of Introduction to Game Theory, a free interactive course that aims to teach computational game theory to anyone. This course gives the computational basis for the many daily, social and human applications of this branch of mathematics.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/24/wolfram-blog-checkmate-dominate-the-competition-by-learning-game-theory-with-wolfram-language/
  5. Wolfram Blog: Checkmate! Dominate the Competition by Learning Game Theory with Wolfram Language. “I am glad to announce the launch of Introduction to Game Theory, a free interactive course that aims to teach computational game theory to anyone. This course gives the computational basis for the many daily, social and human applications of this branch of mathematics.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/24/wolfram-blog-checkmate-dominate-the-competition-by-learning-game-theory-with-wolfram-language/
  6. Wolfram Blog: Finally… a Wolfram U Course for Everyone on Partial Differential Equations!. “Today, I am happy to announce a free interactive course, Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, that will help students all over the world master this important subject. This course introduces partial differential equations (PDEs) from scratch and covers the most important types and their […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/03/wolfram-blog-finally-a-wolfram-u-course-for-everyone-on-partial-differential-equations/
  7. Wolfram Blog: Finally… a Wolfram U Course for Everyone on Partial Differential Equations!. “Today, I am happy to announce a free interactive course, Introduction to Partial Differential Equations, that will help students all over the world master this important subject. This course introduces partial differential equations (PDEs) from scratch and covers the most important types and their […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/03/wolfram-blog-finally-a-wolfram-u-course-for-everyone-on-partial-differential-equations/
  8. Wolfram Alpha. The one remaining search engine I trusted. Boasts about "AI technology". Please tell me it is not genAI 😩 #noAI #LLM #LLMs #AI #WolframAlpha #Wolfram

  9. Wolfram Alpha. The one remaining search engine I trusted. Boasts about "AI technology". Please tell me it is not genAI 😩 #noAI #LLM #LLMs #AI #WolframAlpha #Wolfram

  10. Why is #WolframAlpha so bad?

    as6461.frankfurt.megaport.com (62.69.146.139) 5.105 ms
    ae21.cr2.fra9.de.zip.zayo.com (64.125.19.170) 138.467 ms

    Routing across the Atlantic, for no apparent reason?

  11. Stephen Wolfram: New Features Everywhere: Launching Version 14.3 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica. “Version 14.2 launched on January 23 of this year. Now, today, just over six months later, we’re launching Version 14.3. And despite its modest .x designation, it’s a big release, with lots of important new and updated functionality, particularly in core areas of the system. I’m […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/06/new-features-everywhere-launching-version-14-3-of-wolfram-language-mathematica-stephen-wolfram/

  12. OK *sometimes* I like . It can be pretty useful at times, especially when refuses to allow you to do advanced maths.

  13. OK *sometimes* I like #MATLAB. It can be pretty useful at times, especially when #WolframAlpha refuses to allow you to do advanced maths.

  14. Wolfram Alpha Blog: Wolfram|Alpha, Now in Simplified Chinese and Korean!. “We are excited to announce that Wolfram|Alpha is now available in simplified Chinese and Korean! This adds to our growing list of languages, including Japanese, Spanish and English, allowing us to continue to support our long-term goal of making all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/27/wolfram-alpha-blog-wolframalpha-now-in-simplified-chinese-and-korean/

  15. Wolfram Alpha Blog: Wolfram|Alpha, Now in Simplified Chinese and Korean!. “We are excited to announce that Wolfram|Alpha is now available in simplified Chinese and Korean! This adds to our growing list of languages, including Japanese, Spanish and English, allowing us to continue to support our long-term goal of making all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/27/wolfram-alpha-blog-wolframalpha-now-in-simplified-chinese-and-korean/

  16. Has Wolfram Alpha gotten stupider over time?

    I remember using it years ago to do reasonably-complex unit analysis, and it would figure out and name the correct result unit if you put in a formula of units that reduced to it.

    E.g. querying something like "length / time" would spit out "velocity" somewhere in the answer. Or "voltage * current" would get 'power' or 'electric apparent power' if it was feeling pendantic.

    And now it just… doesn't do that anymore? What the fuck? Is this some dumb AI bullshit again? Because that was actually a useful tool at one point, goddamnit.

    #WolframAlpha #Enshittification #WTF

  17. Wolfram Blog: A Whole New Ball Game: Game Theory in Wolfram Language 14.2. “Do you want to make optimal decisions against competition? Do you want to analyze competitive contexts and predict outcomes of competitive events? Do you need to elaborate strategies and plans against adversity and test the effectiveness of those strategies? Or are you simply an undergraduate student struggling to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/26/a-whole-new-ball-game-game-theory-in-wolfram-language-14-2-wolfram-blog/

  18. Wolfram Alpha should really update their interpreter with a LLM layer that improves the command #wolframalpha

  19. Wolfram Alpha should really update their interpreter with a LLM layer that improves the command #wolframalpha

  20. Yes, #WolframAlpha, when I asked for "length great wall of china / circumference of earth", I was definitely looking for an answer in seconds per kilometer. 🙄🌎

  21. Yes, #WolframAlpha, when I asked for "length great wall of china / circumference of earth", I was definitely looking for an answer in seconds per kilometer. 🙄🌎

  22. Ireland population data from Wolfram Alpha. It’ll be 2050 before the population get back to near what it was in 1850. #Ireland #WolframAlpha wolframalpha.com/input?i=irela

  23. Ireland population data from Wolfram Alpha. It’ll be 2050 before the population get back to near what it was in 1850. #Ireland #WolframAlpha wolframalpha.com/input?i=irela

  24. #wolframalpha m'apprend que j'ai vécu bientôt 2 milliards de secondes.

    Et y'en a des qui z'en ont des centaines en dollars, c'est vertigineux !

  25. Stephen Wolfram keeps busy and loves the web at 65.

    TIL that the co-founder of WolframAlpha is 1) eponymous 2) alive and 3) an active blogger!

    writings.stephenwolfram.com/20

  26. Stephen Wolfram keeps busy and loves the web at 65.

    TIL that the co-founder of WolframAlpha is 1) eponymous 2) alive and 3) an active blogger!

    writings.stephenwolfram.com/20

    #WolframAlpha #TIL

  27. #WolframAlpha war früher mal richtig nützlich, wird aber gefühlt auch nur immer dümmer?

    Jetzt stellt das schon nicht mal mehr triviale Einheiten um?

  28. #WolframAlpha war früher mal richtig nützlich, wird aber gefühlt auch nur immer dümmer?

    Jetzt stellt das schon nicht mal mehr triviale Einheiten um?

  29. Hui, die Suchmaschine #kagi integriert #WolframAlpha und holt sich Stephen Wolfram als advisor : blog.kagi.com/kagi-wolfram

    Was alles möglich ist, wenn man keine Werbung verkaufen muss...

  30. #Google muss ab dem 6. März 2024 auf Android-Geräten beim Setup auch andere Suchmaschinen als die hauseigene zur Auswahl stellen. Grund genug, die anderen mal auszuprobieren, sofern man sich damit bislang noch nicht beschäftigt hat. Der "Standard" hat eine Übersicht parat. Behandelt werden dort neben #Bing und #Yahoo auch #Duckduckgo, #Startpage, #Qwant, #Swisscows, #Yandex, #Ecosia und #WolframAlpha.
    derstandard.at/story/300000020

  31. @landley also most those "#LLM"s do is being a shitty version of #CleverBot with some #InstantAnswers from #DuckDuckGo and a way worse interface and options than #WolframAlpha.

    I don't see how anyone thinks that's revolutionary, cuz actual #AI's like @Hoppel do exist but take years to train in realtime, since they learn not dissimilar from children...

  32. #wolframalpha is really good. Can render graphs of mathematical functions, provide good one liner answers to questions like bmi calculation formula, etc,etc. Can also do integration differentiation, and other mathematical operations.

    Works really good

  33. Does somebody here have Wolfram Alpha Pro? It solved an equation for me which I find impossible, and I'd be very curious to see the solution. I'd also pay a bit for it, but don't want to spend 7,50 for a month. #WolframAlpha #mathematics

  34. to be clear,
    a second relates to a #attosecond the same way as your siblings foldable-pool-monstrocity they were so happy to use for two days relates to our #moon.

    fun fact; depending on weather conditions your siblings "goodway - family jumbo xxl" might be visible from the (our) moon just as well.

    so now you know*, just how short that light pulse that got the #nobelprize #physics was!

    #agostini #krausz #lhuillier

    next:
    det.social/@mastomememakers/11

    *assuming #wolframalpha did its thing well

  35. @simsus alles außer kollektive Verweigerung und #Verbot wäre ein #Downgrade der Forschungsqualität und damit #Enshittification!

    Weil dann kann man gleich #4chan-#Shitposts umformulieren...

    Eigentlich ist das sogar ne Beleidigung gegenüber #Shitposter|n wie @lowqualityfacts weil #ChatGPT ist weder kreaktiv noch sonstwas und anders als #WolframAlpha taugt es nichtmals als wissenschaftlicher Taschenrechner mit Grafikausgabe...

    reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/