Lurve the reference to HAL in Wolfram|Alpha. “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that…” Classic! Btw, do you guys know what HAL means, where it came from and why the letters H, A and L? The last bit about the letters is probably the most interesting. ^^.
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That’s cool!
can’t remember what H. A. L stands for…. google it with Wolfram|Alpha :p
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k Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Did you know HAL is one above IBM? ^^
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ProtocolSnow Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Wow. My mind is blown =O
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david Reply:
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:38 am
HAL is for Heuristic ALgorithmic
Yeah, saw it while playing around with it before the launch, quite witty, I like
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k Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 10:12 am
If it was “I’m sorry Ken….” I would be REALLY impressed!
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HAL – “Heuristic ALgorithmic”. It was joked that that was to be one step ahead of IBM, but Arthur C. Clarke remarked that, had he noticed it, he would have changed it.
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John Gray Reply:
May 21st, 2009 at 12:14 am
“Is it true that you named it HAL to stay one step ahead of IBM?”
“Not that old canard;it’s stands for Heuristic ALgorithm!”
A snippet from Clarke’s sequel to 2001(the book,not the movie).
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Wolfram Alpha’s great.
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