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For years I thought Jupyter Notebook was hardware, a specific laptop made for scientists. Am I alone thinking it's a confusing name?
by Kiro 7y ago
For years I thought Jupyter Notebook was hardware, a specific laptop made for scientists. Am I alone thinking it's a confusing name?
- aapjaap 7y agoYes
- purple-again 7y agoNo you are not alone. I have no crossover with the Python world aside from hearing about it on HN and Reddit. I too assumed it was like a Bloomberg terminal for data scientists and was surprised to discover it’s just a virtual environment wrapper you install. Poor name for the project if you are marketing it outside of your domain which I doubt they care much about.
- cheez 7y agoIt's not a virtual environment wrapper... It's closer to an environment for coding in the browser.
- randomvectors 7y agoYes, it's very rare to have the term notebook mixed up in this case. Unless you've only heard of the term "Jupyter Notebook" and have zero context. By the same logic Python can get confused with snakes.