Sunday, August 8, 2010

Apples and Oranges

An apple and an orange.Image via Wikipedia
I am happy to be writing a post here at last- this is not much, but at least it is a beginner.

Please look at the left sidebar. What do you see? Something called Apples and Oranges, right?

I am proud to say that I turned developer and built that widget, right from scratch, thanks to Wolfram Alpha. It helps you compare two objects of the same class: apples and oranges, nile and amazon, london and paris, sampras and nadal and so on.

But Soulberry and Balajhi, I am sorry to say you can't compare Tendulkar and Dravid with this widget: it is perhaps a silent acknowledgement from Wolfram Alpha that the two belong to a different class.

Wolfram Alpha, gentlemen, seems to be deaf and blind to what you'd expect the ordinary American is deaf and blind to.

Rather unfortunate, you'd accept, when  you consider that China and India together would generate many more queries that what United States of America does now or in some future time.

Let's hope they go global.

In the meantime, enjoy - I compared Angeline Jolie and Brad Pitt and came up with some pretty meagre results: a couple of photos would have enriched it, I think.
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6 comments:

  1. adade....adade...adade...

    super.... widget guru ki namoshkaar ki dhanyawad

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  2. ha ha...

    may i know who all you compared?

    some measurement comparison features must be enabled: such as compare trisha's lips with nayan's and so on...

    but it seems we have to develop a special software to do that. These american people don't know what all the most important questions are.

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  3. Interesting widget. Let me think of comparables and try it ;)

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  4. this is brilliant- not difficult to do: you just do a query and then after two or three clicks, you have a gadget.

    if only we could do something similar with google search....

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  5. I must ry the widget.

    Does the widget comprehend cricket?

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  6. not the least clue.

    I compared cricket with chess and it came up with something real fun.

    PS- thanks SB, for your comment.

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