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by pwang 14y ago
> In the end, the business people did not do SQL False. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people using SQL every day to query and analyze their data, that would not be able to write a for-loop or tell you what a pointer is.
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by pwang 14y ago
https://github.com/mikedewar/d3py
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by pwang 14y ago
Choice quotes from the blog: > Since the reaction was based on hearing a forking sexual innuendo joke, a joke was heard whether or not it was intentionally made. > The man who was terminated chose to post the experience on HackerNew
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by pwang 14y ago
Thank you. Also don't forget that we had an amazing Python Data conference during the sprints, with over 300 people and featuring Peter Norvig and Fernando Perez as speakers. http://pydata.org
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by pwang 14y ago
http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2012/12/im-sorry.html
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by pwang 14y ago
Cython is used all over the place in some parts of the real world, but you may not hear about those parts because they are not that connected to web app development. The entire scientific Python ecosystem has basically moved on to Cython.
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by pwang 14y ago
I think someone asked the question at a Scipy conference a few years back, "Who here uses IPython as their primary shell", and IIRC about 30% of the people raised their hands.
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by pwang 14y ago
Have you looked at the Cubes project? http://databrewery.org/cubes.html
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by pwang 14y ago
Kurt Brown had some slides about data & Python at the NYC Python meetup last October. He did a Sting demo there and some of the slides talk about it (I think... it might be a different thing, though. October was a long time ago..) htt
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by pwang 14y ago
Awesomeness. We are making great headway on Blaze and the new persistence format to supplant HDF5/PyTables (Although, Blaze will always work great with carray, NumPy, and Pytables), and the Numba compiler project is working out great. Waka
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by pwang 14y ago
You should also come by our booth (Continuum Analytics) and we can talk shop!
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by pwang 14y ago
Good points, certainly, but just to clarify: Numba is not particularly dependent on Numpy's built-in vectorized and matrix operations. Instead, it's using the datatype information to do JIT type inference over the functions being called w
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by pwang 14y ago
If you are getting good results from CUDA and PyCUDA, you might want to take a look at Numba and NumbaPro: http://numba.pydata.org and http://continuum.io/numbapro . They are still in their early stages but work pretty well on a number o
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by pwang 14y ago
> Is it also faster than C? From my limited experience, it seems that people sometimes spend a lot of time on concurrency when faster code would have been easier It can reach FORTRAN speeds with the right tools. With Numba ( http://num
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by pwang 14y ago
Austin, TX; NYC; Boston; or Remote - Front end Python web dev, and UI/UX designer for a Python data analytics startup Continuum Analytics ( http://continuum.io ) is building a Python-based advanced analytics platform in the browser, named W
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by pwang 14y ago
Can you link your questions? I don't know about using Stackoverflow for Python, but because there are so many active Python mailing lists, Google and gmane search might also be a good bet. ( http://search.gmane.org/ )
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by pwang 14y ago
> That might also be the reason why, when we read about how black people use Twitter, it’s so rarely from their own perspective. Isn't this whole framing that "black people" use Twitter differently than "white people" or "Chinese people
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by pwang 14y ago
In fact, this "last stakeholder" problem is one of the game theoretic reasons for things like eminent domain.
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by pwang 14y ago
How well does yum work on Windows and Mac?
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by pwang 14y ago
(Bokeh developer here) The core goals of the project are to offer: interactive, easy-to-specify, powerful novel graphics, with good support for statistical plots, in a web browser. That's quite a handful of things to balance, but we are pi
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by pwang 14y ago
In python: from numpy import * z = array([5,2,-3,8]) where(z*z > 8)
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by pwang 14y ago
PiCloud has been around for years and has been presented at conferences and whatnot. Raspberry Pis are only a year or two old.
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by pwang 14y ago
The IPython notebook came after the SAGE notebook, but it seems to be gaining popularity faster in the broader scientific Python community. (The SAGE community tends to be more oriented towards pure math.) SAGE is a very powerful system a
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by pwang 14y ago
You might be thinking about Wakari: http://continuum.io/blog/introducing-wakari Wakari is much more than just "IPython notebook in the cloud"; however, we do have great support for it. For instance, we have just recently enabled a featur
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by pwang 14y ago
This is using the IPython Notebook [1], which uses Python by default, but can use various %magic commands to run R. [1] http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook
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by pwang 14y ago
A lot of physics quackery also comes from physicists. :-P
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by pwang 14y ago
No need to use edlin. Just copy con: file.txt and make a .bat file!
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by pwang 14y ago
Wow, this is awesome! How can I upload original disk images? Can we get an 8086 emulator with VGA? I would love to have all of my old games & software available in the browser. (Scorched Earth, Infocom, Sierra, etc.)
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by pwang 14y ago
Tony Harris's rant is just hateful. Like, wow. But I have to conclude that the OP was referring to the title of the article. By saying "Nerds: Please stop hating women", it frames the conversation with a starting assumption that, well, nerd
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by pwang 14y ago
Thanks for the pointer! However, note that we offer all of the Scientific Python stack built against each of these interpreter versions (and against different Numpy/Scipy versions) as well. :-)

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