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Turtle slowly walks in spiral in search for Zen of programming. Over the weekend, I am again searching and exploring Jupyter Notebook in a heuristic fashion. I indeed found some interesting modules along the way that worth nothing, and as well discovering a few more *hickups*. Basically, I have a need to find enough "visual" modules, probably under 10 modules, that give me starting tools so that I could create some interesting Image Output, in the way that Wolfram Language can. Wolfram Lab Cloud indeed is powerful visually. I don't know how to explain, but being able to query Planets images (or all kind of stuff), and then seeing the list as image picture of some sort, then filtering the list or further scrambling the images... are brilliant. So, I do have come to some realization that a lot of codes are to be required and studied in order to be able to make some of the "cool stuffs" that Wolfram can do much easier. Yet, still, there is a good feel...

It's me, MARIO! - Made using ipythonblocks inside Jupyter So far, my programming experience using Python inside Jupyter Notebook has been really exciting for the last few days. Well, it's totally unlike my previous exploration where I need to start from writing on text and trying to run the program from Terminal / Command Prompt. To reach the state where I am , there are quite some "hickups" along the way, here are my personal Python history: I use Windows mainly on my main computer. I do have MacBookPro laptop and familiar with OS X. When I decided to start learning Python, I was shocked that Windows 7 do not have Python installed by default.  So, for Windows, we are very likely need to install our own Python, from the official Python website, we can easily download and install Python. However, you will find there are Python 2.7 and Python 3.5. Be aware of those two. Apple OS X has Python pre-installed and the working environment is Linux like. Mac OS X...

For the last few days, I have been dwelling myself into Wolfram Language inside Wolfram Cloud Lab , which is really quite a brilliant and I got a taste of a BIG KNOWLEDGE and ALGORITHMS. I grow to like Wolfram Language really quickly. It sure has lots of potential. I have few issues with Wolfram Language, knowing these 3 things: I cannot work offline with Wolfram Lab free basic (need the cloud access and Internet for non Desktop version). I wish that FREE mode gives me the Desktop version. With FREE Wolfram, I am pretty much limited. I am willing to pay when I got serious with my research, but that is for later. Wolfram Knowledge Base, aka Wolfram brain is very big, with all the objects and symbols, however, it does not mean it knows everything or have the data that I wanted to work on (obviously!). I do not want to be limited by Wolfram cloud data allowance or memory limit. I guess the path of self-taught artist wanting to learn bigger idea of programming can be a bit bumpy :...

My personal interest in Wolfram from the start is because of Wolfram's BIG KNOWLEDGE BASE. And also the way Wolfram could "filter" and "re-present" those data back to users in an interactive and rich kind of way. I supposed it would be a really good personal case study and research for DATA VISUALIZATION . If you are interested in Data Science, you should also check thing like R Programming. Or maybe look up some ways Python can process data. SomethingData[] Now, we know that Wolfram knows A LOT. However to access those knowledge, we need some kind of understanding about the way Wolfram store the data. We can tell Wolfram to QUERY data using Wolfram Language SYMBOL, which I believe it will give you ENTITY, and further more the PROPERTIES of ENTITY. For example: 1) Supposed we want to know more about our PLANET: Earth . Wolfram recognize this "Earth" as a String. What if we want to actually find out more about ENTITY called EARTH? 2) We cou...

GOOGLE EVERYTHING, THEN WOLFRAM EVERYTHING? By today, we all sure already got used to idea of SEARCHING all kind of knowledge and information using GOOGLE SEARCH (or other search engine, such as DuckDuckGo) and expecting results from websites that we later we can filter and sort ourselves. Searching and browsing IMAGES, VIDEOS, and all kind of useful INFORMATION, such as a more organized WIKIPEDIA or the messy webs becomes our second nature. We are pretty fast at it too. We are in the era of too much informations. I do not mind this "dumb lazy but fast way to search for information", but I suddenly recall myself when I was a kid and browsing pages of thick Encyclopedia books. Then later come Encycplopedia CDs, with audio and sound .... and then the INTERNET. The Internet and Google have surely changed a lot in our way to access information and knowledge. People can learn a lot from the Internet (well, minus some junks information and hoaxes, etc.). However, I think,...

I've explored Wolfram Language (cloud) in a heuristic fashion for about a week now. Although still in infancy mode, and I was only doing trivial commands, things get interesting and fun really quickly. If you are also interested to look into Wolfram, then "An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language" book by Stephen Wolfram and Wolfram Programming Lab EXPLORE should give you some stuffs to try and think about. You will get used to seeing single liner syntax like below: Commands[ Commands [ {List of Entity}, Argument, Argument] ]  The powerful thing about Wolfram Language is that of the DATA KNOWLEDGE and the way it displays INFORMATION and CAN present it back to user in visual, audio, and interactive rich almost instantly. SEE ALSO: Mathematica Language => this Mathematica also uses Wolfram Language (or more correctly, Wolfram Language is originated from Mathematica. And if you like to do calculations and algorithm, I think Mathematica is great. Wolf...