Wolfram Alpha, the infamous answer in search of a question. Today I actually got a useful answer out of Wolfram Alpha! I was working on a project to correct altitude information from my GPS watch, and I needed a sanity check. Looking at exported data from Ascent, I wasn’t sure whether Ascent had exported altitudes in feet or meters. Wolfram Alpha reassured me that I was indeed working with feet. Whoopee-doo!
Unfortunately, for a service that was hyped to revolutionize the way that computers “think,” this seems like a hopeless waste of engineering effort.
