Well, no. The number-crunching comes courtesy of Wolfram|Alpha, a sort of search engine for quantifiable facts. Begun in 2009 by Stephen Wolfram, a British scientist and entrepreneur, the online service serves up answers to queries by harnessing information from its own databases. It can compute things like the distance between the Earth and the Moon on your parents' first Valentine dinner, for example. Its latest feature lets people analyse their Facebook account for free. Enumerating and plotting the vagaries of one's online life is at times surprising. Your correspondent wouldn't have thought he was many times more active in 2011 than this year, in terms of status updates, sharing links, photos, etc (chart below).
2012年9月21日 星期五
Herbert Simon (Wolfram|Alpha)
Well, no. The number-crunching comes courtesy of Wolfram|Alpha, a sort of search engine for quantifiable facts. Begun in 2009 by Stephen Wolfram, a British scientist and entrepreneur, the online service serves up answers to queries by harnessing information from its own databases. It can compute things like the distance between the Earth and the Moon on your parents' first Valentine dinner, for example. Its latest feature lets people analyse their Facebook account for free. Enumerating and plotting the vagaries of one's online life is at times surprising. Your correspondent wouldn't have thought he was many times more active in 2011 than this year, in terms of status updates, sharing links, photos, etc (chart below).
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