Comment Re:New Kind of Science? (Score 1) 369
You may have also noticed he operates a business by that name. Crazy, I know!
You may have also noticed he operates a business by that name. Crazy, I know!
Not even close. I asked it for the population of a nearby county and the answer was something like "Hopefully this page can answer your question:" with a link to the Wikipedia page about that county. Click on the link explaining how Start works and you'll see that even they don't pretend that it's really the same thing. The emphasis with Start is on parsing Natural Language Queries, period.
The scientists' main approach on this new analysis was simple; to look at solar output and cosmic ray intensity over the last 30-40 years, and compare those trends with the graph for global average surface temperature, which has risen by about 0.4C over the period.
Fast, cheap, good: pick two.