From Python to Numpy
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From Python to Numpy
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Re: From Python to Numpy
#2> be warned that I'm a bit picky about typography & design: Edward Tufte is my hero
And it shows, the theme is beautiful. Also some of the best ASCII diagrams I've seen. Worth a look at the source, even if you don't care about Python.
Re: From Python to Numpy
#3> be warned that I'm a bit picky about typography & design: Edward Tufte is my hero And it shows, the theme is beautiful. Also some of the best ASCII diagrams I've seen. Worth a look at the source, even if you don't care about Python.
Wouldn't normally criticize website design, but since this came up... yes, the fonts are pretty and all, but on my humble 24" monitor the site uses barely half of my horizontal space and looks awkward (the table of contents especially). "Mobile-first"?
Re: From Python to Numpy
#4> be warned that I'm a bit picky about typography & design: Edward Tufte is my hero And it shows, the theme is beautiful. Also some of the best ASCII diagrams I've seen. Worth a look at the source, even if you don't care about Python.
Wouldn't normally criticize website design, but since this came up... yes, the fonts are pretty and all, but on my humble 24" monitor the site uses barely half of my horizontal space and looks awkward (the table of contents especially). "Mobile-first"?
> but on my humble 24" monitor the site uses barely half of my horizontal space and looks awkward (the table of contents especially). "Mobile-first"?
That's actually a feature, as lines that are too long are harder to read (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length). It's the same as why books actually have empty margins.
To me, the font is too thin to be easy to read.
Re: From Python to Numpy
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't normally criticize website design, but since this came up... yes, the fonts are pretty and all, but on my humble 24" monitor the site uses barely half of my horizontal space and looks awkward (the table of contents especially). "Mobile-first"?
> but on my humble 24" monitor the site uses barely half of my horizontal space and looks awkward (the table of contents especially). "Mobile-first"? That's actually a feature, as lines that are too long are harder to read ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length ). It's the same as why books actually have empty margins. To me, the font is too thin to be easy to read.
I don't mind empty margins, but having 60% of my screen empty for no reason is excessive, and I do read slower because of it. If I want shorter lines, I'll just resize my browser, thanks.
I agree with you about the font being too thin, but the line length annoyed me much more.
Re: From Python to Numpy
#6> be warned that I'm a bit picky about typography & design: Edward Tufte is my hero And it shows, the theme is beautiful. Also some of the best ASCII diagrams I've seen. Worth a look at the source, even if you don't care about Python.
Wouldn't normally criticize website design, but since this came up... yes, the fonts are pretty and all, but on my humble 24" monitor the site uses barely half of my horizontal space and looks awkward (the table of contents especially). "Mobile-first"?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but on my humble 24" monitor the site uses barely half of my horizontal space and looks awkward (the table of contents especially). "Mobile-first"? That's actually a feature, as lines that are too long are harder to read ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length ). It's the same as why books actually have empty margins. To me, the font is too thin to be easy to read.
I don't mind empty margins, but having 60% of my screen empty for no reason is excessive, and I do read slower because of it. If I want shorter lines, I'll just resize my browser, thanks. I agree with you about the font being too thin, but the line length annoyed me much more.
My problem is that the notes are off-screen - their seems to be an assumption that I'm reading on a widescreen monitor...
Re: From Python to Numpy
#8this book is amazing! specially the authors sense of humor makes reading it fun.
> For example, can you tell what the two functions below are doing? Probably you can tell for the first one, but unlikely for the second (or your name is Jaime Fernández del Río and you don't need to read this book).
Re: From Python to Numpy
#9Immediately recognized the domain name. Months ago I was doing yet another search on how to do geospatial plotting with Matplotlib, the kind that mostly works-out-of-the-box in R/ggplot2, but, because of some latent fragmentation from Py2v3, was not well-documented anywhere in Python/matplotlib. And while I've come to really like and respect Matplotlib, the documented examples stray far from what they should for purposes of API illustration, and so learning it has been a test in patience.
Anyway, Mr. Rougier's Matplotlib was both informative, concise, and beautiful. Actually, I think my appreciation for matplotlib came from reading his guide: https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/teaching/matplotlib/
Re: From Python to Numpy
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but on my humble 24" monitor the site uses barely half of my horizontal space and looks awkward (the table of contents especially). "Mobile-first"? That's actually a feature, as lines that are too long are harder to read ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length ). It's the same as why books actually have empty margins. To me, the font is too thin to be easy to read.
I don't mind empty margins, but having 60% of my screen empty for no reason is excessive, and I do read slower because of it. If I want shorter lines, I'll just resize my browser, thanks. I agree with you about the font being too thin, but the line length annoyed me much more.
Optimizing for super-rare users who have a deliberate desire for long lines is less important than optimizing for the vastly-more-common case that the browser's size is large as an artifact of content the user was viewing on a previous site, but the user still prefer a sane line length for text content.