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2009-12-28 来源:Moneyshow 编辑: 浏览量:

I’ve found the perfect way to celebrate the new year and new decade. I’ve fallen for Wolfram Alpha. And I’d like to introduce you, get your opinion, your thoughts.

I guarantee it will be the perfect way to start the new year. So, set aside a few quiet moments after reading this lumn and head to www.WolframAlpha.m.

This Web was created by Stephen Wolfram—a true “genius”—and acknowledged as such by the McArthur Foundation, which in 1981 made him the youngest recipient of its famed fellowship.

The British-born, Oxford-cated physicist and mathematician got his PhD from Cal Tech at 20. He was an early leader in scientific mputing, and working with the mplexities and inter-relationships in natural systems. By the late 1980s, he had published Mathematica—a treatise that forms the basis of much of today’s digital mputations.

Now, Stephen Wolfram has taken it a step further. His latest project is to make all of human knowledge not only searchable, but immediately “mputable” (to use his term) by anyone. Even me.

Here’s an analogy. For many years, rporations have been filing their reports online with the Securities and Exchange mission (SEC).You uld find them at the SEC’s searchable Web , Edgar. You uld look up a mpany and find out anything in its filings—sales, earnings, profit margins, depreciation, executive mpensation. But you uldn’t do much with that knowledge, except manually input the numbers into your spreadsheet.

Only in the past few years has the SEC changed the game, by requiring rporations to file using a new searchable, interactive format known as XBRL. Now, analysts who use a special XBRL reader tool can instantly mpare and search all the data in all those reports. With a click, you uld find all mpanies that have revenues over $1 billion, with pre-tax profit margins over 9%—and then mpare the mpensation they pay to executives!

The use of this kind of interactive data has opened entirely new doors to the information about public mpanies and has put powerful institutional-level screening tools in the hands of individuals. But it’s a drop in the bucket mpared to what WolframAlpha.m does for the entire body of human knowledge!

WolframAlpha.m is a “long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately mputable by anyone.” That’s the ambitious mission of this growing project—and it has already made great steps towards that goal. 

I see Wolfram Alpha as a sort of new dimension of human thought and knowledge, beyond the third dimension and well into the fourth. It’s as if I’ve gained instant aess into the knowledge of every smarter person who has ever existed—and I’ve -opted them into expanding the knowledge that exists in my brain, as well as helping me figure out what I don’t know that I don’t know!

I know this may sound a little vague, so let’s make it easy.

Wolfram offers several practical examples of how you can use his program to make all kinds of nnections you didn’t know existed and how it can be employed to do practical business and investment research as well.

So, try it out and then me back and post your mments. Happy New Year everyone, and happy new dimension!

 

 
 
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