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Speaker 1: My name is Chris Peltim, an editor here at how
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Speaker 1: So today we're going to talk about a subject that
Speaker 1: I know a lot more about than I normally do
Speaker 1: on these things. Well from Alpha right, which is not
Speaker 1: a surge engine, not in the least. No, it is
Speaker 1: a computational engine, Yes it is, indeed. So um, this
Speaker 1: was one of those things that's interesting. You know, we
Speaker 1: always hear about the killer uh apps, or the killer websites,
Speaker 1: or the killer gadgets that are designed to knock off
Speaker 1: whatever the most popular version of you know, that thing,
Speaker 1: whatever that is. You know, when when a new one
Speaker 1: comes out, it's the killer version. So like the HTCG
Speaker 1: one was the iPhone killer, and then the Palm Prex
Speaker 1: was the iPhone killer. iPhone, by the way, still doing
Speaker 1: really well. Um, I hadn't. I hadn't heard anything about that. Right. Well,
Speaker 1: Wolf from Alpha was supposed to be the Google Killer
Speaker 1: according to some, just like Cool was supposed to be
Speaker 1: the Google Killer according to something. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: that's not what Wolf from Alpha is about. And if
Speaker 1: you get away from that, if you can clear your
Speaker 1: mind of the fact that this is uh you know
Speaker 1: that you put in a query in a little box
Speaker 1: and you hit a button. As that's the only similarity
Speaker 1: to the search engine really, I mean, it's it's not
Speaker 1: designed to pull up links to um two various other sites.
Speaker 1: Well it does search, it does, but it's searching data.
Speaker 1: It's not searching. It's not giving you links to other
Speaker 1: websites exactly. UM. The reason I the reason I do
Speaker 1: know more about this than normal is instead of doing
Speaker 1: an hour or two of research for the podcast, I
Speaker 1: actually wrote an article on that for the website. UM.
Speaker 1: And one of the cool things about it is, other
Speaker 1: than the you know five and thirty three articles that
Speaker 1: I saw that had Google Killer in it somewhere, UM,
Speaker 1: I think of it as sort of a difference between
Speaker 1: uh Wikipedia and Britannica because the because Wikipedia allows you know,
Speaker 1: anyone to write or edit an article. H well, you know,
Speaker 1: in general anyway, and Britannica, at least up until recently,
Speaker 1: was a closed system. Everything in it was prepared by
Speaker 1: the people at Britannica exactly. So the difference here is
Speaker 1: that while Google is allowing you to search the web
Speaker 1: and anything and everything on the web that it can
Speaker 1: get its little spiders on anyway, um well from Alpha,
Speaker 1: all the information provide it on that engine is actually
Speaker 1: provided by Wolf from Research itself. So it is being
Speaker 1: vetted by experts who are putting it together. It's not
Speaker 1: just not just you know, it's not just looking for
Speaker 1: the top result and pulling the numbers from whatever that
Speaker 1: result is and assuming that because of the top result
Speaker 1: it has to be true. It's actually being looked at
Speaker 1: by a human being and and uh and validated yep.
Speaker 1: And that that's causing a lot of frustration. I wrote
Speaker 1: a couple of blog posts about it, and I got
Speaker 1: some comments in which people were saying, you know, I
Speaker 1: plugged some stuff into to Wolf from Alpha and I
Speaker 1: I'm just not getting anything useful. Well, the thing is,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for you know, Britney Spears pictures or
Speaker 1: the latest flight to Newark or whatever. You're not going
Speaker 1: to find it. That's not what it's for. Kind of
Speaker 1: why I'm not using Wolf from Alpha that much because
Speaker 1: you know, hit me baby one more time. Please don't
Speaker 1: tempt me. Um nice, Uh No, it's it's it's there
Speaker 1: for it's it's more of a research site, right, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, talking about science or mathematics at least that's
Speaker 1: what it's being used for now. Even even music. You
Speaker 1: can find a lot of information on music there, but
Speaker 1: not you know, popular music. We're talking like music theory. Sure,
Speaker 1: let's let's talk a little bit about the kind of
Speaker 1: queries you can put into Wolf from Alpha. That's sort
Speaker 1: of clear this up a little bit. So for example,
Speaker 1: let's say that you are interested in, um, what was
Speaker 1: the average temperature in a certain city in a certain year.
Speaker 1: So you could say, all right, well back in what
Speaker 1: was the average temperature of I don't know, San Diego, California.
Speaker 1: That might be a piece of data that Wolf from
Speaker 1: Alpha could actually pull back and give you. Or you
Speaker 1: could say, give me a range of averages over a
Speaker 1: range of years, or you could perhaps even compare two
Speaker 1: different cities together. Um, that's the kind of data that
Speaker 1: Wolf from Alpha might be able to pull up that's
Speaker 1: just one tiny example. Uh. Whereas if you were to
Speaker 1: search it for Google, you might get a whether website.
Speaker 1: As a as a recommendation, you might get one that's
Speaker 1: maybe the San Diego Chamber of Commerce page, maybe an
Speaker 1: almanac page. Uh. You wouldn't necessarily get the data itself.
Speaker 1: You would be getting links that could point you to
Speaker 1: the data. Yeah, you go to Wolf from Alpha if
Speaker 1: you're looking for the answer. If you were looking for
Speaker 1: a page where you might find the answer, you would
Speaker 1: look at a search engine like Google or Yahoo, Are Asked,
Speaker 1: or Microsoft, Kumo or whatever it end up being called.
Speaker 1: Since we're recording this before it actually launched, I had
Speaker 1: to throw that joke in there anyway. UM so one
Speaker 1: of my um one of my favorite queries to plug
Speaker 1: in there, just because they've done a lot of playing
Speaker 1: around with it. UM. I plugged in red Panda and
Speaker 1: Giant Panda, and what Wolf from Alpha will return if
Speaker 1: you pull plug that in? It actually compares, It builds
Speaker 1: a table and shows you the differences in this easy
Speaker 1: so you might see about how tall each of them gets,
Speaker 1: and about how long each of them gets, and about
Speaker 1: how heavy they are um and it actually will show
Speaker 1: you a breakdown of their classification, which is which is
Speaker 1: a pretty cool application. Sure, And just for fun, I
Speaker 1: started throwing in other kinds of animals just to make
Speaker 1: a really goofy look and graph. So I started throwing
Speaker 1: in stuff like giant squid and you know, all sorts
Speaker 1: of things that are way on the other side yet
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. Um. So if you're if you're into visualization
Speaker 1: of data, um, this was will really help you with
Speaker 1: that because you can you can actually get a visual
Speaker 1: picture of it that will actually put together for you
Speaker 1: on the fly, which is very cool. Yeah, And you
Speaker 1: can even do things like let's say you are considering
Speaker 1: a new diet and you want to know the nutritional
Speaker 1: information of various foods. You can even plug that stuff
Speaker 1: into Wolf Malfa and find out more about it, right,
Speaker 1: that's true. You can put in something like chocolate and
Speaker 1: it will instantly bring back some information that. The funny
Speaker 1: thing is it's going to make an assumption if you
Speaker 1: say chocolate and plug it in there, and it's going
Speaker 1: to say, we're assuming you mean milk chocolate. I'm guessing
Speaker 1: I haven't actually tried that one, but it will bring
Speaker 1: you back the average fat um, the calories, and all
Speaker 1: the other nutritional information about that. Now you say, oh,
Speaker 1: well I meant actually dark chocolate, you can go in
Speaker 1: and clarify that search to bring you back more accurate information.
Speaker 1: So it actually does. It makes an assumption based on
Speaker 1: how popular you know it thinks it's going to be,
Speaker 1: and if it's if you're looking for something more specific,
Speaker 1: you can make adjustments. Right. And there are some queries
Speaker 1: that may come back with essentially an error saying that
Speaker 1: there's no information on that. And in some cases it's
Speaker 1: really just that the search the search algorithm doesn't recognize
Speaker 1: the way you've worded your query, and if you reword it,
Speaker 1: you might be able to get that information. But in
Speaker 1: other cases it's just simply a fact that they haven't
Speaker 1: managed to get a round to entering that data in yet.
Speaker 1: So um, you know, you can try a few different
Speaker 1: ways and if nothing's working, that might be a sign
Speaker 1: that they just that the database doesn't have that info
Speaker 1: at the moment. Yeah, that's um, that's true. It does
Speaker 1: require a little bit of uh, I would say practice.
Speaker 1: You might need to to get used to the syntax.
Speaker 1: Um they've actually built in some natural language processing based
Speaker 1: on what they think you're going to ask it. For example,
Speaker 1: you know it has a lot in there about mathematics.
Speaker 1: If you you can actually use some mathematical shorthand to
Speaker 1: generate a query and will from alpha and it will
Speaker 1: bring back some results. Now, um, you know, if you said,
Speaker 1: say a thousand pound feet to newton meters, it may
Speaker 1: not get that. You might need to say, convert a
Speaker 1: thousand pound feet to newt meters and it will go essentially. Oh,
Speaker 1: now I see what you mean, kay, I can I
Speaker 1: can convert that for you. Here's what it is one about.
Speaker 1: If um, let's say that you gave it the dimensions
Speaker 1: of a building, would it be able to give you
Speaker 1: the volume? Um? You know what, I'm betting that it
Speaker 1: probably could have. It's got quite a few algorithms in it.
Speaker 1: But that's sort of the idea is that eventually you
Speaker 1: would get to the point where if you had just
Speaker 1: an interesting question, thinking like well, this building is so
Speaker 1: tall and it's so wide and and so deep, I
Speaker 1: guess you could say how how how much volume is that?
Speaker 1: And it would be able to calculate it. Uh. I
Speaker 1: can see this being a big help to people when
Speaker 1: they're doing their math homework. Yeah. Actually, uh, it might
Speaker 1: be a little too much in some regards, UM, because
Speaker 1: you can plug in, um, say a calculus problem into
Speaker 1: Wolf from Alpha, and it will give you a result.
Speaker 1: And it also has a little link off to the
Speaker 1: side that says show steps, and it will break it
Speaker 1: down into each individual step that you need to go
Speaker 1: through in the process of this complicated problem, and you
Speaker 1: know how you get the result. Now, theoretically you could
Speaker 1: go in and copy this all down, UM, but if
Speaker 1: you do that and cheat on your homework, you're not
Speaker 1: actually learning anything and you're going to fail a testing class.
Speaker 1: Although I think that would have been very handy back
Speaker 1: when I took Calculus, because um, I had I had
Speaker 1: difficulties grasping certain concepts, and if I had had this
Speaker 1: to show me each step, perhaps I would have been
Speaker 1: able to follow the logic of each step a little better. UM.
Speaker 1: It felt to me back when I was taking Calculus,
Speaker 1: and granted this was as many moons ago, but when
Speaker 1: I when I was taking it, it just felt like
Speaker 1: there was no rhyme or reason to the rules that
Speaker 1: I was applying, and so perhaps using something like this
Speaker 1: would have kind of made me understand and therefore do
Speaker 1: better on a test than I would have before. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: that's only if I were actually using it to see
Speaker 1: how how it got from one step to the next,
Speaker 1: as opposed to just copying it down so that I
Speaker 1: could do my homework and record time and I can
Speaker 1: go play Halo for another hour or so. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: if you actually learned, earned what you were supposed to
Speaker 1: be learning, and could actually go ahead and play Halo,
Speaker 1: then you'd be killing two birds with ones. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't wish to cast expersions upon my calculus teacher either,
Speaker 1: but I don't think she listens, so it's all right.
Speaker 1: I had similar problems grasping calculus, and um I probably
Speaker 1: also would have welcomed the additional you know, taking you
Speaker 1: step by step through it, because she really lost patience
Speaker 1: with me. Now, the cool thing about Wolf from Alpha
Speaker 1: is that's really going to make research a lot easier
Speaker 1: for for certain, um certain applications, and I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to using it more in the future when the database
Speaker 1: is a bit more robust, because there are certain things
Speaker 1: that you know, facts and figures that I would love
Speaker 1: to have access to and I can't always be certain
Speaker 1: that I have the latest information. Sometimes I find information
Speaker 1: that's a year or two old, and I don't really
Speaker 1: want to depend on that because it could have changed dramatically.
Speaker 1: For example, just throwing a random thing out there, and
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Wolf from alf actually has this.
Speaker 1: In fact, I know for I know that my query
Speaker 1: didn't work most recently. But let's say I wanted to
Speaker 1: find out how many users MySpace has. UM. That would
Speaker 1: be a useful thing, you know, just or being able
Speaker 1: to compare various social networking sites across uh an array
Speaker 1: of different criteria. It would be great to be able
Speaker 1: to do that and just take a quick look and say, oh,
Speaker 1: look at this. It's kind of surprising that such and
Speaker 1: such social networking site has gained a lot of ground
Speaker 1: over the big names over the last twelve months. UM.
Speaker 1: So I can see this being a very useful tool
Speaker 1: for me in the future and for lots of other
Speaker 1: people as well. Students, scholars, you know, more, other journalists,
Speaker 1: and just if you just have one of those things
Speaker 1: where you know, you just need to know the answer
Speaker 1: to something like what's the population of Detroit compared to
Speaker 1: the way it was ten years ago. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: kind of it's kind of cool to be able to
Speaker 1: get all that at your fingertips instantly. Yep. And it
Speaker 1: it does calculate a lot of that stuff UM on
Speaker 1: the fly, things like UM currency conversions. You can find
Speaker 1: out what temperature it is at any place in the world.
Speaker 1: You know. It actually gets information from local weather stations. UM.
Speaker 1: So you can look up, say Detroit, and find out
Speaker 1: what temperature it is. You can find out when the
Speaker 1: sun's gonna set. UH. You'll even you can even find
Speaker 1: out when the next lunar eclipse is going to be UM.
Speaker 1: And it tells you that in real time. You can
Speaker 1: get stock quotes just by by putting that in. UH.
Speaker 1: If you know stock symbol or a company name, it
Speaker 1: will give you company information. If you put any date in,
Speaker 1: it will give you anything significant about that date, including
Speaker 1: any holidays that follow on that date, uh, any historical
Speaker 1: events that happened on that date. UM. So you can
Speaker 1: put your birth date in and it will tell you
Speaker 1: what day of the week it was. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what the what what, what phase the moon was in
Speaker 1: on that day. UM. It's kind of an interesting thing
Speaker 1: that you can and you can even see like how
Speaker 1: how far into the year that date was, how far
Speaker 1: into the month that date was, in case you weren't
Speaker 1: able to work it out yourself. But uh, it's you know, right,
Speaker 1: I guess like, oh gosh, you're right June twenty six,
Speaker 1: that is twenty six days into June. Um, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's but it's really a neat, neat tool that you
Speaker 1: can you know, it's one of those things where you
Speaker 1: plug any date and so of course everyone just immediately
Speaker 1: because puts their birthday in to see what happened. By
Speaker 1: the way, nothing significant other than my birth happened on
Speaker 1: my birthday, according to Wolf from Alpha. Well you know
Speaker 1: we had to reserve it, right, just thank you. I
Speaker 1: would hate to be overshadowed by something so um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: actually this uh, this was all sort of sprung on us,
Speaker 1: which is very very surprising considering all the hype for
Speaker 1: all the other tech things that go on, you know,
Speaker 1: the lot of stuff we talk about too. Um but
Speaker 1: it actually sort of goes back to a March fifth,
Speaker 1: nine posts by Stephen Wolfram in the Wolf from blog.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know he said Wolf from Alpha is
Speaker 1: cuming and narrowly, you know, we might not be so interested.
Speaker 1: But you know, Stephen Wolfram is a former child prodigy.
Speaker 1: He actually got his doctorate and when he was twenty
Speaker 1: years old from cal Tech, which means no one from M. I. T.
Speaker 1: Will be using Wolf from Alpha um it now. He
Speaker 1: he wrote his first scientific paper at fifteen and got
Speaker 1: his PhD in theoretical physics when he was twenty UM
Speaker 1: and then Wolf from Research, which is the company that
Speaker 1: actually you know, he started and produces. Wolf from Alpha
Speaker 1: created a piece of software that I'm sure many of
Speaker 1: you have heard of, but like me, sort of only
Speaker 1: vaguely are aware of, called Mathematica UM, which basically crunches
Speaker 1: numbers in serious, serious ways. It's not the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that you would buy for fun. It's, you know,
Speaker 1: three piece of software for the home version. I can't
Speaker 1: even imagine what the business version costs UM. But that's
Speaker 1: actually what Wolf from Alpha is based on. It uses
Speaker 1: the computational algorithms and mathematics to bring down, you know,
Speaker 1: the data that you're looking for and crunch it together
Speaker 1: to make results page. It has a lot to do
Speaker 1: with the the way it looks too, because um um
Speaker 1: mathematic it helps you visualize mathematical information. So, UM, you
Speaker 1: know this, this works a lot different from the Google
Speaker 1: algorithms that Google uses to search the web. Right. Google
Speaker 1: algorithms are more about finding the links that most people
Speaker 1: are linking to, really and judging that as a a
Speaker 1: symbol of quality. So if a lot of people are
Speaker 1: linking to a particular page, that page and Google's eyes,
Speaker 1: is more important than other pages that contain the same
Speaker 1: keywords and therefore goes higher up on the list. Um.
Speaker 1: That's a very that's a huge oversimplification of the Google
Speaker 1: algorithm because there's a lot more to it than that.
Speaker 1: But that's the basic idea. Uh. But yeah, like we said,
Speaker 1: since the Wolf from Alpha is not a search engine,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really apply and it's not the kind of
Speaker 1: place that you will find advertising yet. Um, Google has
Speaker 1: um pulled down one billion dollars in revenue, that is
Speaker 1: advertising revenue. UM. As of right now, Wolf from Alpha
Speaker 1: does not have any advertising on it, although there is
Speaker 1: some code UM that's commented out apparently that has room
Speaker 1: for possible advertising. UM. So there that may be a
Speaker 1: clue as to what they're going to do with it
Speaker 1: eventually once it gets up and running and more robust. UM.
Speaker 1: You want to have some technical stuff about Wolf hit
Speaker 1: me because it's Wow, you're just so generous with the
Speaker 1: offers to hit you today. Yeah, well, I'm I'm feeling
Speaker 1: like a target anyway, so just go for it. UM.
Speaker 1: Wolf from Alpha runs on a system uses the world
Speaker 1: sixty six fastest supercomputer, a system of custom Dell hardware
Speaker 1: UM built by our systems UM. It's called are Small
Speaker 1: UM and it it can do thirty nine point six
Speaker 1: trillion mathematical operations per second. It's got a four thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred eight processor corps UM with five seventy six
Speaker 1: squad core harpertown Zon machines. It's got sixty five thousand,
Speaker 1: five thirty six gigabytes of memory, which is just slightly
Speaker 1: faster than my laptop computer at my desk here how
Speaker 1: stuff works dot com they actually have five co location facilities,
Speaker 1: so it's technically two supercomputers. And uh, you know that's
Speaker 1: that's a whole lot of processing power. But they're probably
Speaker 1: gonna need it if they're going to keep adding information
Speaker 1: to this uh to this computational um. Yes, computational engines.
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, well, and and before we before we
Speaker 1: go too far, I also wanted to mention that, um,
Speaker 1: the builders, the developers of Wolf from Alpha have a
Speaker 1: sense of humor. Ah, yes, so you mean not. You
Speaker 1: can't just plug in a mathematical con version or you know,
Speaker 1: some kind of um musical note series and find out
Speaker 1: the distances between the notes. Can do that, but you
Speaker 1: can do more than that. There are there are certain
Speaker 1: easter eggs that are in Wolf from Alpha, and some
Speaker 1: of them have been publicized, and I'm sure there are
Speaker 1: many others that we haven't even thought of yet that
Speaker 1: someone's eventually gonna uncover When they just say, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be a smart ale, I can put this in
Speaker 1: and then they're cann't find out there's actually an answer.
Speaker 1: For example, you can open up Wolf from the Alpha
Speaker 1: and type in why did the chicken cross the road?
Speaker 1: The answer you will get is to get to the
Speaker 1: other side. So it's not that it doesn't tell you
Speaker 1: that there's no answer. It gives you the answer to
Speaker 1: the joke. And it's of course, just like everything else
Speaker 1: in Wolf from Alpha. It's just presented there in black
Speaker 1: and white, you know, matter of fact. So that kind
Speaker 1: of makes it even more funny to me, because there's
Speaker 1: no indication that this is a joke, but there are
Speaker 1: a lot of others that you can put in as well. Yep,
Speaker 1: I know that in one preview blog I read when
Speaker 1: I was trying to collect information from my article. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they're all kinds of well this is really
Speaker 1: cool or I don't know if it'll be able to
Speaker 1: knock off Google random comments like that. But somebody said,
Speaker 1: I want I want to know what the air speed
Speaker 1: is of an unladen swallow, and if it can tell
Speaker 1: me that, I'm quitting Google forever and paraphrasing this. As
Speaker 1: it turns out, you can plug that question and get
Speaker 1: an answer. Yes, the answer. The answer is not do
Speaker 1: you mean an African or a European swallow? It's more
Speaker 1: complicated than that, but it is in fact a reference
Speaker 1: to the fantastic film Money, Python and the Holy Grail.
Speaker 1: And it does make an assumption. It says, assuming you
Speaker 1: mean right, exactly which is right? And then there's um,
Speaker 1: there are other ones as well. I'm sure. Well, like
Speaker 1: I said, we'll find more. Um, we'll see what exactly
Speaker 1: what is what is the answer to life, the universe
Speaker 1: and everything? Forty two? So they obviously some Douglas Adams
Speaker 1: fans over in the Wolf from ALFA team as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean it's it's great to know that
Speaker 1: not only are are there these dedicated people trying to
Speaker 1: put in this this very important information that will soon
Speaker 1: be at our disposal at a moment's notice, they are
Speaker 1: also putting in goofy answers for those of us who
Speaker 1: are complete and utter dorks. Well, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people who, uh, who are taking shots at at
Speaker 1: Wolf from Alpha because it isn't Google and also because
Speaker 1: it doesn't have every answer to every problem ever invented. Um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take them a while. They're about two fifty
Speaker 1: people working on the project right now, and you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of info out there. They have to
Speaker 1: break things down into little snippets. Um. Apparently there are
Speaker 1: more than ten trillion pieces of tagged information in the
Speaker 1: system already. Yeah, and when you're actually going in and
Speaker 1: making sure that the answers are correct before you put
Speaker 1: them in, that that's sort of time and labor intensive.
Speaker 1: So um, you know, I think we're gonna need to
Speaker 1: be somewhat patient. But it's I think it's a really cool,
Speaker 1: uh really cool and very useful tool. And you're not
Speaker 1: the only one. There are companies like Google that also
Speaker 1: think it's a very cool and very useful tool and
Speaker 1: are incorporating bits of the functionality of Wolf from Alpha
Speaker 1: into their own coding. Yeah. I actually, uh, I had
Speaker 1: heard that Stephen Wolf froman Seragey Brin actually talked before
Speaker 1: the release, and you know, he seemed very impressed. Mr
Speaker 1: Brenn seemed very impressed with what And for a while
Speaker 1: Google has been doing some similar things to this. For instance,
Speaker 1: if you put in a city name, it might actually,
Speaker 1: you know, at the top tell you what the temperature
Speaker 1: and other little bits of data are about that city
Speaker 1: before you go and click on a link, but not
Speaker 1: to the extent that Wolf from Alpha does. But it
Speaker 1: was clear that Google was already interested in this kind
Speaker 1: of thing from the get go, and you could also
Speaker 1: do things like you know, conversions and stuff um through
Speaker 1: Google as well, UM to some extent. And I think
Speaker 1: that we're going to see a lot more search engines
Speaker 1: try and incorporate this sort of approach and presented in
Speaker 1: such a way where it doesn't dwarf out the search results,
Speaker 1: but it's sort of in addition to them, so sometimes
Speaker 1: you just need the answer. Yeah, and uh, yeah, sometimes
Speaker 1: you don't want to click on three or four links
Speaker 1: trying to get to that one piece of information that
Speaker 1: you want. That's true, That's true. That's the way I
Speaker 1: feel about it. Anywhere pretty much everybody, I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: there are may be a few people who kind of
Speaker 1: enjoy the whole discovery route where you find something that
Speaker 1: you weren't expecting, But if you really need that one
Speaker 1: piece of information, you pretty much put blinders up and
Speaker 1: you just scan for that info anyway. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think there's room in uh, in the average person's toolbox
Speaker 1: or something like that. So, um, you know, good luck
Speaker 1: to the Wolf from Gang and hopefully they'll they'll find
Speaker 1: a place in everyone's heart, certainly hope. So I mean
Speaker 1: it definitely helps uh everyone, really, I mean, it just
Speaker 1: it just adds more options whenever you have to get
Speaker 1: that a So good luck guys. Now, did you have
Speaker 1: anything else to add for Wolf from Alpha? No? No,
Speaker 1: that's that's it for right now. I guess that just
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Speaker 1: we were our games made especially for the wee example
Speaker 1: World of Goo or Tetris Party. I believe that you
Speaker 1: meant virtual console titles, which are games for older systems,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that's kind of what we were talking about.
Speaker 1: Were the old games on the Nintendo. But number two
Speaker 1: in the same podcast, you said that those games were emulated,
Speaker 1: which is not true either. The games have been reformatted
Speaker 1: in a way that the we can read them, sometimes
Speaker 1: with added features such as Pokemon Snap, which lets you
Speaker 1: save pictures to the Wei message board. I heard the
Speaker 1: Nintendo wouldn't let developers just emulate the games. Also true,
Speaker 1: it's reformatted as opposed to emulate it. If you're emulating
Speaker 1: a game, then you're trying to recreate the uh the
Speaker 1: way that the original hardware, right, the environment that the
Speaker 1: original hardware and software had in order to play the game,
Speaker 1: whereas this was reformatting so they would work with different hardware.
Speaker 1: Number three. In another podcast one after the April Fools podcast,
Speaker 1: someone told you that you forgot the legend of Zelda
Speaker 1: movie trailer joke by YouTube. YouTube did not in fact
Speaker 1: make that joke. I g n S video team made
Speaker 1: the video, and that's why it was so believable. Someone
Speaker 1: on YouTube copied the video, so that was an our mistake.
Speaker 1: That was a listener mistake. That makes me feel better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just so two out of three were ours and the
Speaker 1: other one with someone else's. Um. Actually, I knew that
Speaker 1: YouTube hattent made that video as well. I knew that
Speaker 1: it had been posted to YouTube, but yeah, because that
Speaker 1: was a listener mail, I had not actually looked up
Speaker 1: the original creators, though I had seen it the video
Speaker 1: in question at at some point. So thank you very much,
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