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by rmbeard 9y ago
Try XLWings
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Converting and updating those is going to generate a lot of contractor opportunities.
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Also for visualizing there are things like pandastable and DataExplore and other tools. You won't fix Excel by adding Python to it, but you do need the ability to process legacy xls and xlsx files so they need to at least continue that
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by rmbeard 9y ago
The downside is i) reproducibility. In the academic/research world there is a big move towards reproducible research, the nature of the Excel interface is not conducive to that. A standard scripting language is fine that plays with Exc
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by rmbeard 9y ago
I think we will see and are already seeing a move away from using spreadsheets in Education, there are simply much better solutions out there now. Jupyter notebooks being one which allow reading and writing to Excel files. The interface of
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by rmbeard 9y ago
There are now plenty of Python modules for working with Excel and Excel format files. Why are they trying to compete with those? As a university teacher I have dropped the use of Excel from my classes. I'm really not convinced this wou
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by rmbeard 9y ago
For me the symbolic math capabilities are interesting. I'm not sure I like the choice of reduce that much, but still few languages offer symbolic capabilities. Python does with SymPy and Maxima is based on Lisp but that's moe a ca
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by rmbeard 9y ago
This looks great except for the fact that it runs through cloudflare, that's a big negative for me and will restrict a little my ability to deploy this. However, I can still see some great applications of this that I can't wait to
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Thanks, I was particularly wondering about Python and R. Will try this out anyway.
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by rmbeard 9y ago
How hard is it to get this to work with something other than Javascript?
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by rmbeard 9y ago
This study does suggest that we are doing web development all wrong and that browser functionality is exacerbating this, instead of scrolling we could be doing something like this: http://www.creativebloq.com/html5/crea
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Python has pretty good optimization support as well as handling differential equations quite well. The latter also have very good support in R. Python also handles symbolic computation pretty well and in the freeware space dominates anythin
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Still early days is my impression. It is extendable which is a plus. I think it goes in the rightirection and can see myself using it. Which is not something that happens that often.
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Nice notebook more railways around the world should be using notebooks.
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Presumably you can switch between idyll and Jupiter notebooks using note down and nbconvert with a bit of extra work.
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by rmbeard 9y ago
This looks very cool. Thinking of using it for my lecture notes. I like the math support and that it seems to support d3 albeit with a bit of extra work, am wondering how easy it would be to bulk convert from another format say. LaTeX using
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by rmbeard 9y ago
This looks really good. The main application I would have for this is online teaching, where previously I would have used WolframAlpha, so while this does not have computational functionality it looks like it might be superior as a communic
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by rmbeard 9y ago
I joined because it offered server access similar to what I received at University and I've moved a bit and this allows me to keep my internet presence stable. It's a great set-up and community. These days it is less necessary due
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by rmbeard 9y ago
I've been on SDF for a number of years and have never had any problems, it's very stable and secure. The only issue has been a bit of spam with the e-mail system, a couple of years back but they tightened the filtering up after a
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by rmbeard 9y ago
This sounds like an interesting project, I would like to know more about this.
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Unfortunate that it is restricted to .edu e-mail addresses. I taught a law class last year for which I used MIT's Nb.mit.edu platform. H20 would make a nice complement to that.
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by rmbeard 9y ago
This is interesting. However, Minimizing a weighted sum doesn't correspond very well to most concepts of fairness would it be possible to change the allocation rule to something like the Shapley value which naturally encapsulates at le
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Unless you are need MIP scipy.optimize is nice.
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Given the name issues, why not change the name to rustex?
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by rmbeard 9y ago
It failed to process the first two files I tested it on. I really like the idea but that is not a great start. Being able to switch between TeX engines would be a good option, would be great if you you could do that with CL switch.
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Nothing new, we all knew about it as students back in the early 80's. The denial came much later, climate change is not a new issue, but we have been incredibly slow to react to it.
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by rmbeard 9y ago
Thanks for confirming that. This looks very interesting. How active is development of the mathematical side of things? Also have graphics capabilities been developed yet or are they far away? The HN article indicated Aurora now Eve would ha
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by rmbeard 10y ago
There is this: https://www.italki.com/ some other similar options.
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by rmbeard 10y ago
What about "patterns" writing patterns analogous to software patterns.