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by pwang 13y ago
I believe it's possible. Today's hardware chips are optimized based on a weird mix of legacy and business concerns. If you actually take modern fabrication technology and throw it at intelligently designed, single-purpose parall
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by pwang 13y ago
How do they share long and deep writing with Twitter? Do they smear it out over a dozen tweets that you then have to navigate with the terribly conversation view interface?
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by pwang 13y ago
What about it? It's 20 years old this year, and the language it was meant to clone, S, is almost 40 years old. What's new to keep an eye on?
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by pwang 13y ago
Can you be more specific?
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by pwang 13y ago
Nice post, Chris, and it's definitely a problem that many people are confused about (as the comments in this thread show). People who think the GIL is a problem either have no idea what they're talking about, or they really know
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by pwang 13y ago
> Their choice to not release the GIL during their operations is not necessairly a limitation of Python. Um, what? They do not hold on to the GIL when doing compute intensive operations.
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by pwang 13y ago
"OSX install has become a challenge. With the Enthought transition to Canopy we cannot figure out clean install directions for 3rd party packages and therefore can no longer recommend using EPD for SpacePy." Um... use Anaconda?
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by pwang 13y ago
Hmm, our goal is not to restrict what users can do. Can you email support@continuum.io with the specific clauses that are troubling you?
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by pwang 13y ago
Here's a justification for Snapchat's valuation: Pets.com and Webvan aren't around anymore, looking to do post-mortem rounds from the grave. If they were, that's where the pattern-matching money would go.
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by pwang 13y ago
As someone once commented, git is a great library for building a VCS system. Great design. The tooling around it? Not so much. http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
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by pwang 13y ago
I don't think it's quite accurate to frame the current state of innovation in High-Performance Python as being one in which the principal actors are fundamentally opposed to each other. Nothing that we do at Continuum detracts from the CPy
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by pwang 13y ago
Great stuff from Bret, as always. It's interesting to me (and I imagine that it's frustrating for him) that he has been trying to hammer home the same core concepts and principles for years now, but many people fixate on certain small aspec
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by pwang 13y ago
Thanks for letting us know! We are actively working on Bokeh, and the version that's there is still pretty early-stage. This will definitely improve in the coming months.
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by pwang 13y ago
The schema.md they link to currently leads to a 404...
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by pwang 13y ago
IPython is not like RStudio, at all. The closest Python thing to RStudio is Spyder (spyderlib.googlecode.com). IPython Notebook can serve similar purposes of data exploration as RStudio, however.
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by pwang 13y ago
What about Wakari[1]? Full Python and IPython, in the browser, backed by AWS, online interactive plotting (via Bokeh[2]). One click sharing of IPython notebooks. Enterprise version is installable on your own machine or cluster. [1] http:
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by pwang 13y ago
Actually, it is free! There are paid plans but there will always be a free tier, at least if I have anything to say about it. The pricing plans are here: https://www.wakari.io/plans There is also an enterprise version that customers
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by pwang 13y ago
Well, it's not that much of a hoop. If you start LightTable from the command line, via "open /Applications/LightTable.app", then it gets your environment parameters, including PATH, which is the important one. I tried to create a ~/.MacOSX
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by pwang 13y ago
Looks great! Just confirmed matplotlib/pylab plotting working with Anaconda Python distribution. (To get LightTable to not use the system python, I had to go through some hoops... creating an environment.plist didn't seem to work.) The dot
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by pwang 13y ago
Cornell is a great school. There are certainly easy majors and easy courses available, but I was able to find courses that would kick my ass, and made lifelong friends with people who were hard working and incredibly bright. Getting into c
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by pwang 13y ago
As far as I can tell, this is a different vision than that of Wakari. This effort seems to be about building a souped up parellel ML-oriented calculator around Hadoop. There is an R binding, there is a nascent Python binding (that "doesn'
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by pwang 13y ago
How is this different from RHIPE? http://www.datadr.org/ Also some "big guns" on that project.
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by pwang 13y ago
> If it weren't so domain-specific, it would be the holy grail of languages. That's relatively true of many languages. The reason SQL has been able to be optimized so heavily (and the reason why it's been adopted so broadly) is because
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by pwang 13y ago
This is a point I wish more people would make. There are a huge number of Asians in tech, and we are grossly underrepresented at tech conferences. But no one even thinks to look at diversity numbers there. I've seen discussion about ra
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by pwang 13y ago
There are definitely limitations of the implementation of CPython itself, which do not need to be there if the language were willing to ratchet down the dynamism in certain cases. (Even without that, there are potentially implementation
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by pwang 13y ago
> On the contrary, multi language projects are a kludge born out of (pragmatic) necessity. > Nothing inherently inevitable (or good) about them. Um, except that coherent planes/tiers of abstraction is the foundation of robust softwa
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by pwang 14y ago
How integral are greenlets now to PyPy? Just an optimization add-on, or something that the JIT core will rely on?
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by pwang 14y ago
Glad to see it's finally released! There was some suspicion it would be shortly after the VIS paper deadline. :-)
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by pwang 14y ago
Many people pay for NumPy's creation of temporaries and such. If you have a lot of Numpy code and use a lot of long expressions, it's worth looking at NumExpr, which can give greatly improved performance because it eliminates temporaries a
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by pwang 14y ago
> for CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and CEM (Computational Electrodynamics) guys generally run on C, C++ and Fortran, or whatever runs Numerical Linear Algebra faster, I doubt Python will take this post anytime soon. You are welco

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