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Wolfrum Alpha - The newest golf blog research tool!

Monday May 18, 2009 | 08:04:06 am 285 words, 13205 views  

Long-time followers of this blog are well aware that I, William K. Wolfrum, have a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of all things golf. For years, I have taken this incredible knowledge for granted, but now I have decided to do something about it, by creating “Wolfrum Alpha” the newest and most important golf blog research tool in the history of humankind.

Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term, slightly insane project to make all systematic golf knowledge immediately computable by anyone. All you need to do is input a golf question into the comment field below, and my built-in algorithms will compute the answer.

For example:

Q: Who won the 1938 Masters?

A: I don’t know.

You see, all you have to do is ask! Sure, most of the time I won’t have the correct answer, or will just make something up full cloth, or just ignore the question entirely, but that’s part of the fun. Let’s try another example:

Q: What is Tiger Woods true first name?

A: Eldrick.

See, I knew that one, and was able to give the correct answer. That is the beauty of Wolfrum Alpha - sometimes it will be correct! One more example:

Q: What is Jack Fleck best known for?

A: Jack Fleck was a U.S. general in the Revolutionary War. His brave men helped win the battle of San Francisco.

Ok, I wasn’t sure of the answer to that, so I just made something up. Can’t you see the value of that? I sure can.

So folks, enjoy Wolfrum Alpha. It promises to be the most important tool ever for golf bloggers and golf fans. Of course, it’s no “Wolfram Alpha,” but we’re getting there.

–WKW

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Comment from: Wendy (UK) [Visitor]
Pending my golf question to you and anxious to establish a benchmark, I asked Wolfram Alpha about you. It says you are a hybrid between William The Conqueror, dead these last 921 years and Stephen Wolfram, an English scientist, still breathing.

Why didn't it just say "I don't know"?
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Comment from: ronmon [Visitor] · http://mon.mon
Q: What did she say?

A:
PermalinkPermalink 05/23/09 @ 20:03
Comment from: William K. Wolfrum [Visitor] · http://www.williamkwolfrum.com
Q: What did she say?

A: What didn't she say?
PermalinkPermalink 05/23/09 @ 20:15
Comment from: Rita Miguel [Visitor]
I love your website. Remember me from 2005 about hitting golf balls into houses (which I didn't). Read up on on my jail experience from that incident.
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Comment from: CoolButt [Visitor] · http://www.coolbutt.com
This amazing new product will keep you COOL on the golf course. It also can be customized with your LOGO to present your company in a COOL way! www.coolbutt.com
PermalinkPermalink 08/21/09 @ 20:02
Comment from: Adirec Torytski [Visitor] · http://www.abso-bloody-lutely.com/
So hows it working out for ya? Does this get an answer?? Very amusing to give credit where it is due.
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Comment from: Michiel VanKets [Visitor] · http://www.articlesdirectories.com/
This is a bold statement "systematic golf knowledge immediately computable by anyone" but I hope you get there...
PermalinkPermalink 08/23/09 @ 08:37
Comment from: jenifer [Visitor] · http://homeboxer.com
this actually looks pretty funny lol.
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