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It's nice to see someone who shouldn't be seen as a programmer (Paul Romer is a Nobel-winning macroeconomist) teaching python as a matter of process in his clas
by VHRanger 2y ago
It's nice to see someone who shouldn't be seen as a programmer (Paul Romer is a Nobel-winning macroeconomist) teaching python as a matter of process in his classes.
For a long time economics was dragging behind using matlab or specialized statistics software (ugh). Even using R was considered novel among econometricians for a while.
- nlehuen 2y agoOTOH it's sad that a Nobel-winning macroeconomist has to write a blog article about fixing Anaconda's hostile takeover of student machines and setting up a basic Python environment.
- VHRanger 2y agoSure, but compared to matlab or STATA it's still great news. I mean, we dependency management in python is a complete mess. It's not something we can expect a mere Nobel winner to solve.