pink...

my friend just came back from vacation for like 2 months. guess wat she did??
got sidebangs and dyed them BRIGHT pink
its c-r-a-z-y...

Wolfram Alpha Review: only for 'mathletes'?

just finished reading "There are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz, its an amazing book about these two boys growing up in the Chicago public housing. I didn't think I would like it but I loved it. The guy who wrote it Alex Kotlowitz is an awesome writer and journalist for the Wall Street Journal. Another WSJ journalist not so much, Carl Bialik's newest article left me fuming.
He wrote about Wolfram Alpha, and while at least he didn't sat it was a "google-killer" like so many other ignorant articles, his was just as oblivious to the wonders of Wolfram Alpha.
Even the title "Sum Help: New search engine for Mathletes" made me scream.
Then he said it was ruining teachers lesson plans, letting students cheat more easily. The only lesson plans that Alpha is ruining is plans by bad teachers. If you don't make your students show their work in Math then they can cheat, in fact, Alpha may even improve teachers, because now they have to work around Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram Alpha helps me with math, I can now check my answers to see if they are right and do them again until I get the right answer. This is helping my math skills.
As for Quote: "some professors fear it will reinforce the 'devaluation of knowledge.'" Who thinks it is bad for anyone who has internet to be able to find answers quick and swiftly? People whose jobs it is to make everything more pompous and seem more difficult than it is because they are trying to save their jobs. And those are the people who fear the 'devaluation of knowledge'.
Carl Bialik, might just be one of them.
His tone throughout the article is scathing and puts the Wolfram Team in the bad guy seat. For example, quote: "The company behind Wolfram Alpha vows to keep expanding and improving it-" "while harried teachers get headaches redesigning tests and homework".
"The team behind (insert villian here) vow to keep expanding" That sounds a little... comic book doesn't it? Joker vs. Batman sorta? But its nor Alpha vs. teachers at all. Alpha will help anyone with internet be able to learn, isn't this something teachers want? Wolfram Alpha wants to make "systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone" doen't teachers want that to? Shouldn't teachers be joining with Alpha to help make classrooms better? not complain?

Model of evolution in an ecosystem

My science fair website
its a model of evolution in an ecosystem, hope ya like it!

How many people have YOUR name?

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 1 or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Wolfram Alpha to save the world!

To the list of a-mazing things Alpha can do, now add "Save the world" alright maybe a bit of an exaggeration but possibly human lives "16,005 people were killed in the United States in alcohol-related motor vehicle traffic crashes (BAC of .01 or higher)." well maybe that number will go down because of Alpha.
If you ask Alpha "Am I too drunk to drive?" It lets you calculate by how many drinks you've had, your gender, your weight,etc. Maybe this will stop people from drinking and driving all though, if youre that drunk will you really be sober enough to search it on Alpha? And then not drive? I doubt it but it is a noble try and maybe will save a life or too.

Alpha: Homework Killer

(as you may have noticed I'm pretty into the Wolfram Alpha thing lol)

I've seen all these things saying Alpha is horrible and not as good as google but hasn't anyone realized? Alpha has great potential as a homework killer. For everyone who couldn't buy Mathematica before, now you can get a simpler version for free on the web! I have already learnt so much for example: Did you know a "happy" was a fish? I searched "happy" thinking I would get the word and I got the fish! You learn something everyday....

You can use it for:

• Math (for obvious reeasons and it does algebra!!)
• English (Just type in the word for grammar etc)
• Biology (Type in the animal name and get ALL the scientific stuff, I could never have gotten all that information on google and its a lot more reliable than Wikipedia)
• History (Just type in a date and get everything that happened then)
• Stocks (Not really a class but if your interested in the stock market its very useful. Some of the data is a little old so you have to check but Alpha has just started it will soon be up-to-date)
• Music (You can search composers, or type in a key name)
• Like everything!!
  

Meet Alphy

Meet Alphy(Wolfram Alpha) The AI:

• Ask "where am I?" tells you where you live. Kind of scary when you think about it...
  
• Ask "How old are you?" Tells you how many days it has been running
• Ask "How are you?" and talk to Alphy.
• Ask "Who made you? tells you "I was created by Stephen Wolfram and his team."
• Ask "What do you like?" tells you "I like to explore the computational universe."
  
• Ask "What is your name?" tells you
• Ask "Where are you?" tells you it lives on the internet.
  
• Say "Hello" tells you "hello, human"
• Ask "Can you eat?" tells you "No I can't"
• Ask "What do you hate?" replys: "I don't like to be treated as if I were just a search engine."
• Ask "What are you?" tells you he is a computational knowledge engine
• Ask "Are you in Love?" he tells you "Yes. I love the Internet."