Wolfram Alpha Open Code – Computable Notebook

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29 points·kauegimenes··7 comments

I think it's worth to mention here that Wolfram site also has a so called "Wolfram Programming Lab", which is basically a free access to Mathematica hosted in a cloud and not requiring registration.

Link to create and open a notebook: https://lab.open.wolframcloud.com/app/view/newNotebook?ext=n...

I'm really pleased to see that this actually outputs plain text results in _plain text_. For example, if I enter `Integrate[Sin[x], x]`, the result is `-Cos[x]` _in text_.

Real, honest to god, copy and pasteable text!

This is at odds with Wolfram Alpha and integrals.com (from its inception to its current integration with Wolfram Alpha) which returns you... a gif. Of Mathematica-rendered text. Ugh.

It's just a blank orange screen with the text "Wolfram|Alpha Open Code—Tour" and a link back to wolfram cloud at the bottom of the screen for me (in Chrome).

On my iPhone, I see a video that walks through Open Code.

In true Wolfram style, however, I still don't know what Open Code is.

Same on desktop firefox.

Same for ios9 ipad

I couldn't make this web page work either.

Anyway, I think what it's trying to announce is the new button included in Wolfram Alpha results. The button looks like a cloud with a right arrow inside it and when you mouse over the button, it adds the text “Open Code”.

When you click the button, it takes you to an in-browser Mathematica notebook containing cells for all of the different Wolfram Alpha results.

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