Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code
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Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code
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#2I disagree with the idea that notebooks and McDonalds are somehow inherently and fundamentally bad. They fit a certain niche, and you should use them accordingly.
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#3I think people may be misusing notebooks. They aren't there to develop software but serve as virtual versions of scientific notebooks (hence the name). They are there to conduct experiments (changing parameters and the like in your code) and to record and plot the results. You don't have to develop the software itself in the notebook.
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#4I've never been a fan of notebooks, it always felt like a strange way to run my code. What's the real advantage over creating scripts? If I want my code to run somewhere I would need to notebook architecture or just turn it into a normal script anyhow
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#5I think people may be misusing notebooks. They aren't there to develop software but serve as virtual versions of scientific notebooks (hence the name). They are there to conduct experiments (changing parameters and the like in your code) and to record and plot the results. You don't have to develop the software itself in the notebook.
I can change parameters in a script. What's the advantage?
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#6It's what I have, some people are poor.
Obsessing over silly details like these can be deceptively tempting procrastination.
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#7I think people may be misusing notebooks. They aren't there to develop software but serve as virtual versions of scientific notebooks (hence the name). They are there to conduct experiments (changing parameters and the like in your code) and to record and plot the results. You don't have to develop the software itself in the notebook.
I can change parameters in a script. What's the advantage?
Immediate(ish) visualization and a whole lot of tooling to make presentation palatable for some datasets/types
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#8Some of the worst code I've seen in my life lives in Jupyter notebooks. But that's fine, it's meant to be throwaway code. The problem is a lot of places/people do not use it as such.
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#9I think people may be misusing notebooks. They aren't there to develop software but serve as virtual versions of scientific notebooks (hence the name). They are there to conduct experiments (changing parameters and the like in your code) and to record and plot the results. You don't have to develop the software itself in the notebook.
I can change parameters in a script. What's the advantage?
It’s a REPL, for starters.
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#10I'm an embedded person, so clueless on this stuff. Are notebooks really used in prod? Outside of applications where notebooks are specifically useful to the goal of the system, ie. documentation,blog posts,textbooks with interactive/data driven elements? How would this even work? Can an ipynb file be mechanized in the same way a py file can?