The 'Net Is Getting Smarter

[dr_tectonic]

I just discovered that if you do a Google search for "8 choose 3", it tells you what the answer is!
(It's 56.)

Soon, the web will completely eliminate any need for me to ever actually remember anything.

We ♥ the Interwebs! Iä Iä Google(y-goo) fhtagn!

Comments

[vyrin.livejournal.com]

The thing that has me completely flumoxed is you can do conversions in the google search:

Google: 9.8 meters per second squared in parsecs per fortnight squared
Answer: 9.8 (meters per (second squared)) = 0.000464685062 Parsecs per (fortnight squared)

or...

Answer: 1 Newtons = 286 332 662 (stones times furlongs) per (week squared)

F**king awesome!

[kung-fu-monkey.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure suck up to the little one so you can be his favored human. Hmph.

[navrins]

Yet, you can't tell it "roll 6d6".

Well, you can, but it doesn't.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

Give it a month.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

An undergrad asked me how research was done before the Web. I didn't get to the part about hiring girls to search through paper indices while wearing headlamps.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

My department chair, quite recently, argued to me that having a physical library was unnecessary since all of our journals are on the web.

Of course, all knowledge older than 5 years is completely irrelevant, right?

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

Of course! And none of that knowledge will ever, ever be lost to a hard drive mishap! Dude, join the 21st Century!