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> "You seem to be using notbooky to mean sloppy and disorganized" Not exactly. I'm using "notebooky" to mean whatever the prominent, advertised, praised and re
by mlthoughts2018 8y ago
> "You seem to be using notbooky to mean sloppy and disorganized"
Not exactly. I'm using "notebooky" to mean whatever the prominent, advertised, praised and recommended usage patterns and workflows are for a large body of notebooks and from prominent presentations using the notebook as the lingua franca, especially in circles where the notebook is claimed to be central to "reproducible science" or where the notebook is described like a software equivalent of a "lab notebook."
The way that the notebook community, from academics and prominent leaders, to people who give talks this way, on down to data science practitioners, recommends using notebooks seems to inherently result in what you call "sloppy and disorganized" code. That code is the intended type of workflow, which is why I am trying to distill out principles for why it's arguably not a good idea. (Meaning why the intended way to use notebooks is self-defeating.)