Unladen Swallow
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Oh good, a thread to highjack. :-D For the last few evenings, the wife and I have seen a swallow-like bird swooping and catching insects, but we don't see a bird like it in our book on birds of the western U.S. It's primarily black (or dark anyway) with pointy wings. I forgot to get a good look at the tail, but I don't recall it being notched. The most unique feature is that each wing has a white circle, kinda like a fighter plane (makes me think of "Long Dark Teatime of the Soul"). Anyone know of such a bird?
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Oh good, a thread to highjack. :-D For the last few evenings, the wife and I have seen a swallow-like bird swooping and catching insects, but we don't see a bird like it in our book on birds of the western U.S. It's primarily black (or dark anyway) with pointy wings. I forgot to get a good look at the tail, but I don't recall it being notched. The most unique feature is that each wing has a white circle, kinda like a fighter plane (makes me think of "Long Dark Teatime of the Soul"). Anyone know of such a bird?
Those are kamikaze bats. We have them here, too, but ours are so dumb they chase helicopters instead of flies. They rarely win. The most common bird here is the pigeon, but my pellet gun and I are working to change the ratios a bit. The second most common is what I've tentatively identified as a grackle. They're dark colored, active at all hours, and are not attracted to seed feeders. That leads me to believe that they are insect eaters, exclusively. They make a wide range of sounds, too - quite interesting, actually. Check this[^] for identification, though I have to admit that the critter I see here all the time isn't nearly as attractive as those shown on this site. I made my initial identification using an Audobon Society book, along with some interpolation based on known ranges of habitat.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Those are kamikaze bats. We have them here, too, but ours are so dumb they chase helicopters instead of flies. They rarely win. The most common bird here is the pigeon, but my pellet gun and I are working to change the ratios a bit. The second most common is what I've tentatively identified as a grackle. They're dark colored, active at all hours, and are not attracted to seed feeders. That leads me to believe that they are insect eaters, exclusively. They make a wide range of sounds, too - quite interesting, actually. Check this[^] for identification, though I have to admit that the critter I see here all the time isn't nearly as attractive as those shown on this site. I made my initial identification using an Audobon Society book, along with some interpolation based on known ranges of habitat.
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
It doesn't quite look or move like a bat. We have seen it near a bat.
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It knows its speed http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+air+velocity+of+an+unladen+swallow&asynchronous=false&equal=Submit[^] You can actually submit these queries before it's officially open :laugh:
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It knows its speed http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+air+velocity+of+an+unladen+swallow&asynchronous=false&equal=Submit[^] You can actually submit these queries before it's officially open :laugh:
Nah. They only discuss African unladen swallows. What with the European ones? :)
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It's not that impressive[^]. I put two queries to it. Neither of them were right, and it took absolutely ages. I'll stick to Google
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It knows its speed http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+air+velocity+of+an+unladen+swallow&asynchronous=false&equal=Submit[^] You can actually submit these queries before it's officially open :laugh:
I don't trust it. You really have to double-check and understand how to interpret the result you get. It's interpreter will break the question down into multiple, unrelated, questions if you're not careful.
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I'll stick to Google
They're not trying to be another Google. This is about information analysis, not a simple search engine.
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In my opinion, they should still be able to search properly. The analysis of zero results is nothing, and they appear to lack the base infrastructure to build their 'speciality' upon. I gave it the equation 4x^2+3x-45=0 about four minutes ago. As I type, it hasn't been solved (x=3 and x=-3.75, FWIW). Since it's about information analysis, then surely the creator of Mathematica could make one of his projects notice the standard quadratic form and solve the equation? Praise where it's due though; I searched for Wikipedia and got the WHOIS information and web statistics fairly quickly. Now if they could just make it quicker everywhere else, I'd happily use it for the more abstract queries which Google can't find as easily
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It knows its speed http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+air+velocity+of+an+unladen+swallow&asynchronous=false&equal=Submit[^] You can actually submit these queries before it's officially open :laugh:
When you ask what its favorite color is, what does it reply?
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When you ask what its favorite color is, what does it reply?
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
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Nah. They only discuss African unladen swallows. What with the European ones? :)
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In my opinion, they should still be able to search properly. The analysis of zero results is nothing, and they appear to lack the base infrastructure to build their 'speciality' upon. I gave it the equation 4x^2+3x-45=0 about four minutes ago. As I type, it hasn't been solved (x=3 and x=-3.75, FWIW). Since it's about information analysis, then surely the creator of Mathematica could make one of his projects notice the standard quadratic form and solve the equation? Praise where it's due though; I searched for Wikipedia and got the WHOIS information and web statistics fairly quickly. Now if they could just make it quicker everywhere else, I'd happily use it for the more abstract queries which Google can't find as easily
I typed the same equation in to Alpha, and it came back with the answer within a couple of seconds, with a graph, actual results. Pretty impressive from where I'm sitting. Sounds like a load issue to me, rather than an implementation one. Every man and his dog would have been trying it out in the first few days, and when trying to manage that kind of load - it would be more than a little challenging. And it got the C# query exactly right if you ask me.
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It knows its speed http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+air+velocity+of+an+unladen+swallow&asynchronous=false&equal=Submit[^] You can actually submit these queries before it's officially open :laugh: