I've started following this little start-up called Wolfram Alpha a while back, let it fall off my radar screen for a bit and now have recently started poking around again after they've resurfaced (they've also made it into mainstream press with an article in The Economist).
And I've been quite impressed with what I found. For those of you who haven't heard of them yet, think Google for all things numbers.
Founded by the creator of Mathmatica, these guys are building an engine that allows you (in a single search box) to input formulas, find statistics, track financials and all sort of other searches based on numbers. In their own words, it's a "computational knowledge engine."
And in the spirit of understanding everything in quantitative terms - Antoine (my brother) sent me this little comparison with my name vs. his name.
Comes complete with age distribution, number of births per year and the expected total number of people in the US today with our names. Talk about the epitome of putting everything into numbers - exactly what the founders hoped for, I believe.
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