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by smortaz 9y ago
Uploaded to Azure notebooks in case anyone wants to run/play with the code: https://notebooks.azure.com/smortaz/libraries/PythonDecorato... Click Clone & Run.
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by smortaz 9y ago
+1 for CoCalc! It's great to see the number of notebook hosting services flourish.
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by smortaz 9y ago
I uploaded to Azure Notebooks in case anyone wants to run it w/o setting up an environment: https://notebooks.azure.com/smortaz/libraries/advanced-numpy... Click Clone, Sign in, then Run
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Simulating chutes and ladders(jakevdp.github.io)
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by smortaz 9y ago
Good point that the tooling would've been awesome. However, I don't think .net would have spawned the rich ecosystem of Python pkgs that we enjoy today. And /that/ is a huge part of the whole Python value prop. From as
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by smortaz 9y ago
That's a very good point! I hope you provided that input :). Our team provides a free service for anyone to run Jupyter Notebooks on Azure. It's currently a big hit with the Edu crowd. We're seeing lots & lots of unive
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by smortaz 9y ago
That's for the Excel team to decide. My personal hope is that they'll offer as a base: * Python 3 * Numpy, SciPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Altair, ... * Pythonic bindings for Excel APIs (sheets, etc etc) * VSCode's Python Editor
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by smortaz 9y ago
Thank you - all awesome tools. Kudos to the devs behind these bridges. We did one ourselves, but better ones have come along since then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu31s7kXPOg
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by smortaz 9y ago
Challenges exist & will have to be looked at for sure. Incidentally, one of the guys on our team just a gave talk on his PEP for "Secure" Python: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0551/ There
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by smortaz 9y ago
Clickable Link: https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-... [disclaimer+bias: on Python team @ msft & would love to see this happen!]
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Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback
594 points by smortaz 9y ago|268 comments
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VSCode/Python: 2nd release – 84 issues fixed, conda envs, etc.(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
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by smortaz 9y ago
In case you're interest in reading his book online - or 'running' it, here it is: https://notebooks.azure.com/wesm/libraries/python-for-data-a... If you want to read, click on any notebook, for exam
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by smortaz 9y ago
Nice! This is also a free resource for learning F# in your browser: https://notebooks.azure.com/Microsoft/libraries/fsharp/html/... basically click clone, sign in, run & play around.
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An astonishing old calculator (uses piano wire for memory)(youtube.com)
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by smortaz 9y ago
You can also run them on Azure Notebooks which is basically a free hosted jupyter notebook service for anyone to use: https://notebooks.azure.com/smortaz/libraries/norvig-pytudes basically 1) click the link 2) cl
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by smortaz 9y ago
Related: https://github.com/Microsoft/Pyjion
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by smortaz 9y ago
Posting this whenever there's a new detection! Dr Roy Williams who's part of the LIGO team has put the notebooks used for analyzing the data online for anyone to check out & run: https://notebooks.azure.com/ro
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by smortaz 9y ago
This is great to see. Beyond databricks itself, it has one of the slickest Notebook interfaces around - from collaboration to one-click dashboards.
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by smortaz 9y ago
Great resources in the replies. If you want an environment to run code in w/o much setup, try our free service: https://notebooks.azure.com it has Py2, Py3, R, F#, anaconda, TF, CNTK, etc. pre-installed. There are some ML
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by smortaz 9y ago
I was there for "Isn't that putting Descartes before the whores?" and now this :). https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cfbkx/im_85_cert...
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by smortaz 9y ago
Congrats! This is fantastic. Now can you do the same with Python please? :) But seriously, great work, including the docs/videos.
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by smortaz 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback - it's an area we'll definitely be looking at closely.
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by smortaz 9y ago
YES! I'd love to see the native Jupyter and REPL experience improve as well.
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by smortaz 9y ago
This is a great suggestion and I hope that VS Code gets there (and with it Python support). Meanwhile, for an approximation check out: https://notebooks.azure.com Rumor has it that its successor, ie JupyterLab, may use the VS C
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by smortaz 9y ago
Happy to see this hit the front page! If you have any thoughts about how you'd like us to improve Python support in VS Code please let us know.. with the additional resources we're hoping to accelerate the development quite a bit
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Don Jayamanne, creator of Python extension for VS Code, joins Microsoft(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
90 points by smortaz 9y ago|42 comments
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by smortaz 9y ago
If you enjoy his videos (and other creators'), please consider signing up on Patreon and supporting them.
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by smortaz 9y ago
I believe we have a bug open on this. I'll check, if not, I'll file. Thanks!
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by smortaz 9y ago
We've had plans to provide a paid version for a while (per the faq), and once we do, hopefully it'll be straightforward and friction free. Ideas, usage scenarios welcome (pls file your magic-wand wish list on github!)

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