Anyone tried this on any sort of numeric computation? Numpy, Julia, Pandas, R, whatever? I definitely see the utility in the linked screencast. But I am left t

Anyone tried this on any sort of numeric computation? Numpy, Julia, Pandas, R, whatever? I definitely see the utility in the linked screencast. But I am left to wonder whether this effectiveness is really a symptom of the extreme propensity for boilerplate code that seems to come with anything web-related.