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Re: Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS

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Post by dijit »

blindriver wrote: post #57

Can someone explain their views on Jupyter notebooks? As far as I can tell, the instructor/content creators will set up the "notebook" and students can read the notes and click on the "play" button to see it work in action. Is there anything else besides that? I guess I'm old school and am used to cutting and pasting and running things in my own terminal, so I'm wondering if there are added benefits that I'm not awar…

Really good for doing some basic data science, the kind of thing where you want some graphs based on some source data that is variable.

Being able to change functions around and generate new graphs (IE; if I want the mean not the median for a contrived example) is really handy.

Re: Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS

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Post by adobrawy »

blindriver wrote: post #57

Can someone explain their views on Jupyter notebooks? As far as I can tell, the instructor/content creators will set up the "notebook" and students can read the notes and click on the "play" button to see it work in action. Is there anything else besides that? I guess I'm old school and am used to cutting and pasting and running things in my own terminal, so I'm wondering if there are added benefits that I'm not awar…

Data science / ML are using that. Databricks (data platform, data warehouse) have support to run notebooks in workflows on periodic basis.

There is market of professional use of them.

Re: Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS

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Post by vunderba »

twarge wrote: post #47

This sort of high performance minimalism is precisely what makes the Mac app ecosystem great. Not because you can't write the same thing on other platforms, but because everyone who cares about it has condensed on the Mac platform. Would love to see this adopt the document-based app API and the toolbar API.

Did you read the post at all?

"Full disclosure: it's built with Electron. I originally wrote it in Swift but couldn't get the editor experience to where I wanted it. Now it supports autocomplete, multi-cursor editing, and moving the cursor between cells just like you'd expect from JupyterLab or VS Code"

It's not a native Mac app, it's a standard electron app.

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Post by jackhodkinson »

blindriver wrote: post #57

Can someone explain their views on Jupyter notebooks? As far as I can tell, the instructor/content creators will set up the "notebook" and students can read the notes and click on the "play" button to see it work in action. Is there anything else besides that? I guess I'm old school and am used to cutting and pasting and running things in my own terminal, so I'm wondering if there are added benefits that I'm not awar…

When I learned to program I was working as a scientist. I was relying on OriginLab (a scientific version of Excel) for my data analysis and it was a real pain. I decided to start using python for analysis and plotting and started with scripts and terminal interactivity, but found it too clunky. Jupyter feels more interactive when you are working with data because you need to explore the data and experiment with data manipulation in a way I found quite natural to do in a notebook.

Since then I've moved into software development where I rely on my IDE for any coding that involves working with more than a few modules. And as I got better working with an IDE I did gravitate toward making a script for certain kinds of tasks where I use to reach for a notebook, but there are still many data analysis tasks that I would much prefer a notebook for.

It's also quite nice to share a notebook with someone to show them how you arrived at your conclusions, and it's nice for them to be able to take your analysis and modify it or test their own ideas on top of yours. Obviously the notebooks are not great for collaboration without some fiddling around with git, but they are still very good for this kind of collaboration.

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

blindriver wrote: post #57

Can someone explain their views on Jupyter notebooks? As far as I can tell, the instructor/content creators will set up the "notebook" and students can read the notes and click on the "play" button to see it work in action. Is there anything else besides that? I guess I'm old school and am used to cutting and pasting and running things in my own terminal, so I'm wondering if there are added benefits that I'm not awar…

Imo there hasn't been much of a point except as a share-only format since vscode’s Python extension could natively handle comment-delimited code cells. You get all the benefits of a Jupyter notebook while still just writing a plain text file.

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Post by ericjmorey »

blindriver wrote: post #57

Can someone explain their views on Jupyter notebooks? As far as I can tell, the instructor/content creators will set up the "notebook" and students can read the notes and click on the "play" button to see it work in action. Is there anything else besides that? I guess I'm old school and am used to cutting and pasting and running things in my own terminal, so I'm wondering if there are added benefits that I'm not awar…

You can also edit the notebook, both code blocks and text. It's used for quick visual iterative exploration of datasets with descriptions. The focus is on creating a report of your analysis and process rather than a "product".

Re: Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS

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Post by [deleted] »

twarge wrote: post #47

This sort of high performance minimalism is precisely what makes the Mac app ecosystem great. Not because you can't write the same thing on other platforms, but because everyone who cares about it has condensed on the Mac platform. Would love to see this adopt the document-based app API and the toolbar API.

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