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Re: Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

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Post by eoinmurray92 »

aequitas wrote: post #29
eoinmurray92 wrote: post #22

OP and Founder of Kyso here - we built Kyso to make it easier to blog your notebooks to the public and also to make them easier to share in teams. The linked post is actually a Jupyter notebook itself - analysing the number of notebooks on Github. A key element with Kyso is that the code is hidden by default to make it readable to non-technical people but you can click on the "code hidden" button on the top right to…

In my opinion hiding code is an anti feature as exposing the code by default gives you more incentive to write clean understandable and explaining (self documenting) code as it's always visible. By hiding it people might be more likely to paste in big blobs ugly code that would be much better put into a reusable function then in a notebook snippet.

Thats true if you sharing with someone who also understands the code - we think that the feature allows you to share the notebooks with a completely non-technical audience.

Image you had a notebook to analyse sales data and you needed to present the results to your CEO (who perhaps cannot code) - this feature lets you present the notebook as is, without needing to prepare a report in some other format

Re: Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

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Post by syntaxing »

On the topic of Jupyter Notebooks, Is there something similar to a paid version of Google's CoLab? CoLab is so awesome for creating prototypes and even better since it's free. However, there is no paid alternative that I have seen. I do not want to have to deal with setting up my own VM or server. The way that CoLab is perfect for what I need.

Re: Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

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Post by localhostdotdev »

manaskarekar wrote: post #2

Off topic: Possibly something in my config, but I've recently got a lot of "Sorry, something went wrong. Reload?" when trying to view Jupyter notebooks on github itself. Seems to be working right now. I have used this as an alternate: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/

thanks for linking there, tried to make some ruby notebooks and works quite well https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/localhostdotdev/notebook... (very similar to the github interface though)

Re: Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

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Post by claytonjy »

kbd wrote: post #30

If you ever put notebooks in source control, you owe it to yourself to try the text-based notebooks supported in Visual Studio Code[1]. They're round-trippable with real (i.e. browser-based) notebooks, yet are much better for collaboration, diffing, and editing. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support

How does this compare to Jupytext?

I prefer pipenv to Conda, and I don't like having Jupyter(Lab) installed in each venv separately, so instead I only add `Ipykernel` to each venv and then use my system-level JupyterLab to access per-project kernels; seems like that wouldn't work here?

Re: Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

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Post by localhost »

funkythingsss wrote: post #5

I hate jupyter notebooks. Joel Grus puts it perfectly: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh... past hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856700

What specifically do you hate about Jupyter? Is it out of order execution exacerbating the "hidden state" problem? If so, and if you already use VS Code, I encourage you to try out our Python VS Code extension. We have an "Interactive Python Window" mode https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support that we showed a lot of folks at pycon last week and even among the "I don't like Jupyter" crowd, it was quite well received. The key thing about our experience is that it is an editor focused interactive programming experience vs. trying to just replicate Jupyter functionality in an editor (though we are also doing work here because we believe that folks want an experience where they can move seamlessly back and forth between and editor and a notebook experience).

Disclaimer: I designed this experience in VS Code.

Re: Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

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Post by mike_ivanov »

eoinmurray92 wrote: post #31
aequitas wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my opinion hiding code is an anti feature as exposing the code by default gives you more incentive to write clean understandable and explaining (self documenting) code as it's always visible. By hiding it people might be more likely to paste in big blobs ugly code that would be much better put into a reusable function then in a notebook snippet.

Thats true if you sharing with someone who also understands the code - we think that the feature allows you to share the notebooks with a completely non-technical audience. Image you had a notebook to analyse sales data and you needed to present the results to your CEO (who perhaps cannot code) - this feature lets you present the notebook as is, without needing to prepare a report in some other format

Why would you share a notebook with somebody who doesn't understand the code?? What are they supposed to do with them anyways? Reading? Isn't that what PDF is for? Just give them PDFs, C*O people have got piles of other things to worry about besides shared notebooks.

Re: Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

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Post by mike_ivanov »

localhost wrote: post #35
funkythingsss wrote: post #5

I hate jupyter notebooks. Joel Grus puts it perfectly: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh... past hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856700

What specifically do you hate about Jupyter? Is it out of order execution exacerbating the "hidden state" problem? If so, and if you already use VS Code, I encourage you to try out our Python VS Code extension. We have an "Interactive Python Window" mode https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support that we showed a lot of folks at pycon last week and even among the "I don't like Jupyter" crowd, it was qu…

That surely is a step in the right direction, thank you.

Re: Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

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Post by eoinmurray92 »

syntaxing wrote: post #32

On the topic of Jupyter Notebooks, Is there something similar to a paid version of Google's CoLab? CoLab is so awesome for creating prototypes and even better since it's free. However, there is no paid alternative that I have seen. I do not want to have to deal with setting up my own VM or server. The way that CoLab is perfect for what I need.

The OP post is a Jupyter notebook itself and if you sign up to Kyso you can actually Jupyterlab on our cloud and the post the notebooks to the web, or make them private on the paid plan - is that what your looking for?

Re: Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

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Post by enisberk »

syntaxing wrote: post #32

On the topic of Jupyter Notebooks, Is there something similar to a paid version of Google's CoLab? CoLab is so awesome for creating prototypes and even better since it's free. However, there is no paid alternative that I have seen. I do not want to have to deal with setting up my own VM or server. The way that CoLab is perfect for what I need.

You can use a VM with Colab[1],also paperspace[2]and floydub[3] are other companies providing cloud gpu with notebooks.

[1] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Xh0slMoD1dfi8iTQJbO...

[2] https://www.paperspace.com/ml

[3] https://www.floydhub.com/

Re: Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

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Post by euler_angles »

localhost wrote: post #35
funkythingsss wrote: post #5

I hate jupyter notebooks. Joel Grus puts it perfectly: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n2RlMdmv1p25Xy5thJUh... past hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17856700

What specifically do you hate about Jupyter? Is it out of order execution exacerbating the "hidden state" problem? If so, and if you already use VS Code, I encourage you to try out our Python VS Code extension. We have an "Interactive Python Window" mode https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support that we showed a lot of folks at pycon last week and even among the "I don't like Jupyter" crowd, it was qu…

Please allow me to thank you for designing an experience that hits the sweet spot between maintaining a good history of work through git while allowing for interactivity and ease of exploration. I started using VS Code on seeing a video of the jupyter support within the latest release of the Python extension. This has eased and sped up my work tremendously!
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