julie's first blog http://juliehochman.posterous.com (hold your judgment) posterous.com Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:02:00 -0800 Where is my inner-genius hiding? And when will it come out to brag? http://juliehochman.posterous.com/where-is-my-inner-genius-hiding-and-when-will http://juliehochman.posterous.com/where-is-my-inner-genius-hiding-and-when-will

I'm the first to admit how behind on the internet I am (hence my "hold your judgment" caveat), but I refuse to believe that I am one of the last to discover WolframAlpha. I am absolutely fascinated by what I just stumbled upon here and feel the need to share it with everyone (aka the one current subscriber to my blog).

NOTE: this is not your typical search engine. This is the answer to all things we non-Harvard grads cannot compute on our own let alone even know what input should go in the search bar on google.com when attempting to compute on our own. When you're afraid to ask what percent 49 is of 241, that's child's play for WolframAlpha. Let's think ivy style. If you're curious as to what the GDP of Italy is compared to France, a search for "GDP France/Italy" tells you all. And let's say you don't even know what GDP actually means - that's cool because there's a definition included on the side bar. AND because we're all obviously losing sleep over the fact that we don't know the revenue to employees ratio at Honda (in yen), that spicy little fact comes up simply by searching "Honda" on the site.

I encourage you to explore for yourself :) http://www.wolframalpha.com/

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