Am 13.09.2011 13:39, schrieb Invisible:
> Tangentially related, but: Do *not* read failblog while eating. >_<

Epic eating fail? :-P

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> I asked Wolfram Alpha about "KCN". You know, the chemical formula for
> potassium cyanide?
>
> It thinks I mean the gene family. Which is kind of the problem with a
> system that knows about everything and has no context to disambiguate
> what you actually meant.
>
> So I asked about "chemical KCN".
>
> "Using the closest input interpretation: moon water."
>
> "Is there water on the moon? Yes."
>
> ...WTF?

Is Wolfram Alpha case sencitive?
If yes, try KCn instead.
Alternatively, you ask using the full name: "potassium cyanide". Don't 
forget the quotes.

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> I wanted to look up the LaTeX command for the "hearts" card suit.
>
> Pro tip: Do *not* Google for "latex hearts"! o_O

What's the problem?

I get lots of hits for heart shaped latex baloons, some Valentine themed 
sites, and also some hits about a "Latex Hearts" song by the 
Menstruating Orchid band... And it's with "SafeSearch" unactive.

I get some nipple patches around page 17

But nothing LaTeX related.

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> I wanted to look up the LaTeX command for the "hearts" card suit.
>
> Pro tip: Do *not* Google for "latex hearts"! o_O

Googling body parts and/or medical terms is always risky.

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Invisible escreveu:
> I asked Wolfram Alpha about "KCN". You know, the chemical formula for 
> potassium cyanide?

no

> It thinks I mean the gene family. Which is kind of the problem with a 
> system that knows about everything and has no context to disambiguate 
> what you actually meant.
> 
> So I asked about "chemical KCN".
> 
> "Using the closest input interpretation: moon water."
> 
> "Is there water on the moon? Yes."
> 
> ...WTF?

clearly we're still a long way from HAL, Wintermute or Agent Smith...

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> Is Wolfram Alpha case sencitive?

Yes.

> If yes, try KCn instead.

That's not the correct formula though. The corrent formula is KCN. (K 
for potassium, C for carbon, N for nitrogen.) Cn is the symbol for 
copernicium (a rare radioactive element).

> Alternatively, you ask using the full name: "potassium cyanide". Don't
> forget the quotes.

Yeah, potassium cyanide works. It's just a lot more typing...

Weirdly, HCN for hydrogen cyanide works perfectly OK.

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Alain <aze### [at] qwertyorg> wrote:
> Menstruating Orchid

  That name is somehow... quite dissonant.

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On 13/09/2011 08:00 PM, Warp wrote:
> Alain<aze### [at] qwertyorg>  wrote:
>> Menstruating Orchid
>
>    That name is somehow... quite dissonant.

Especially to somebody who's online username is Orchid...

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On 9/13/2011 12:00, Warp wrote:
> Alain<aze### [at] qwertyorg>  wrote:
>> Menstruating Orchid
>
>    That name is somehow... quite dissonant.

I prefer "Iron Orchid" myself.

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On 13/09/2011 07:23 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:

>> I wanted to look up the LaTeX command for the "hearts" card suit.
>>
>> Pro tip: Do *not* Google for "latex hearts"! o_O
>
> Googling body parts and/or medical terms is always risky.

Curse you, Lamport! Why LaTeX?! >_<

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