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What if you want to ensure that the same packages are available, built in a similar way, between your Mac and some linux servers? What if you need to share or ensure that your proj…

I posted an update about this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pzwang_hi-everyone-recently-t... TLDR - we are working to clean up this language to leave it clear that educational in…

Fun joke but Anaconda has a track record of creating OSS and then turning it over to community governance. This includes the conda tool itself, libraries like bokeh, dask, numba, j…

Anaconda Code is what you're looking for! It's Python (via PyScript) running as an Excel plug-in, that has full access to the spreadsheet and can harness a big part of the core PyD…

Over 50% of Python users report using it for data-related things, e.g. data science, ML, etc. (Jetbrains poll) That's numpy, pandas, sklearn, and friends.

I feel you on this. Having done a lot of Python consulting for engineers and scientists, it is absolutely the case that most non-programmers have -zero- model of what I/O latency a…

The homepage that's linked from Github seems to be down? https://renpy.beuc.net/

Thanks for the feedback... I had no idea that pyenv was hosing conda envs. Do you have more details on this brokenness?

This is one of the reasons people use Anaconda/miniconda for non-data science work: conda environments are self-contained Python installs, so if you conda/pip install packages into…

Thanks! FWIW, we are soon going to be releasing a much faster depedency resolver. We are also thinking hard about how best to address the "growing ecosystem" problem, in a future-p…

You only need a commercial license under certain circumstances, and it only pertains to accessing the default package repository at repo.anaconda.com. You can still use conda-forge…

You keep reposting this Nature article but it is vacuous. There are many "guilt by association to Trump", "false equivalency to outrageous conspiracy theories", etc. and other non-…

Don't forget Summa Technologiae, from 1964, wherein he wanted to example the "thorns of roses yet to bloom": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae It's tempting to say t…

There is a factual inaccuracy in the article: Beaker Browser is not "actually under the control of governments and big corporations". It is an independent open-source project.

Pirsig was more well known as I was coming of age in the 1990s. Seems to be less talked about among the younger crowds now? The sequel to ZAMM is the far more illuminating book, IM…

Exactly. Ads are a legacy business model of a legacy distribution system. Too few people have read JPB's excellent "Selling wine without bottles", but that is in full effect here. …

> It looks like that paper is about the transformations of visualizations for higher dimensional data, not rendering accuracy, so these two things are being conflated even though t…

Yes, datashader actually gives you the ability to dial-in as much gamma compensation as you want, to account for the human visual system's nonlinear response to luminance.

I think you are deliberately trying to misunderstand what is being done in this project. It's not about what APIs are being used to render whatever. At that level of analysis, all …

It's actually not merely an accumulation buffer. It's a shader pipeline that allows for arbitrary Python code to be executed at each stage of data processing. It's actually very mu…

You're missing the point of this project. It's not about the feasibility of throwing a billion points at a pile of software, to get an image. I can do that with a simple Python scr…

This paper on our original ideas of "Abstract Rendering" talks about the kinds of accuracy problems that plague the visualization of large datasets: https://www.semanticscholar.org…

It's certainly the same feeling I had back in 2010 when I knew I had to quit my job and start pushing Python for data analysis.

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Because selling stuff requires more effort than just "here's my price, pay me". By doing that, you've put your code into the realm of "commercial software", which engages with comp…