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Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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edraferi wrote: post #41
jypepin wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sorry, maybe my comment is wrong because of my lack of knowledge about the tool (I've seen it used 10 minutes) but it's seems like it's a nice UI replacing what a terminal does, if I'm right. So all I'm saying is, since i'm confortable using a terminal, and I'm usually already there using vim, etc., then it's more convenient for me to test stuff in my terminal than going into my browser to test in jupyter

Right, but what if you want to combine your test commands, their output, and comments? Share that with other people? Let them change things and re-run the examples in the same place? NOW you're cooking with notebooks.

that's a fair point. I'll look more into the tool then :)

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by jypepin »

lumpypua wrote: post #46
jypepin wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sorry, maybe my comment is wrong because of my lack of knowledge about the tool (I've seen it used 10 minutes) but it's seems like it's a nice UI replacing what a terminal does, if I'm right. So all I'm saying is, since i'm confortable using a terminal, and I'm usually already there using vim, etc., then it's more convenient for me to test stuff in my terminal than going into my browser to test in jupyter

How do you get graphs and images in your terminal?

I totally get the use for that, but I usually don't do this kind of things, which is why I said that I could see how amazing and powerful the tool is and don't see myself use it intensely

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by jypepin »

eggie5 wrote: post #38
jypepin wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sorry, maybe my comment is wrong because of my lack of knowledge about the tool (I've seen it used 10 minutes) but it's seems like it's a nice UI replacing what a terminal does, if I'm right. So all I'm saying is, since i'm confortable using a terminal, and I'm usually already there using vim, etc., then it's more convenient for me to test stuff in my terminal than going into my browser to test in jupyter

no, you miss the point of the notebooks. You use it to tell story.

I went back and read more about notebooks. You are right, I totally missed the point, my bad :)

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by rasz_pl »

kasbah wrote: post #24
thom wrote: post #17

Probably the longest time-to-knowing-what-the-hell-this-thing-actually-is I've ever seen on HN. Clicked on the link, clicked on a Github link, clicked to the Github root, clicked on the link to the project's site, clicked on the first item in the table of contents, got a vague idea what it was. I feel grumpy and old. :(

> The IPython Notebook is now known as the Jupyter Notebook. It is an interactive computational environment, in which you can combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots and rich media. The best place to start is probably https://try.jupyter.org/

/opt/conda/lib/python3.4/site-packages/IPython/kernel/__init__.py:13: ShimWarning: The `IPython.kernel` package has been deprecated. You should import from ipykernel or jupyter_client instead. "You should import from ipykernel or jupyter_client instead.", ShimWarning)

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by jypepin »

aabaker99 wrote: post #9
jypepin wrote: post #6

One of our data analyst had fun drawing all the shots from Kobe during his whole career. He did everything on jupyter, which I discovered at that moment, and was mind blown on how well it worked and how powerful it is. I don't think I would ever use this tool as a seasoned software engineer, but I can definitely see the power it has for newer people who want to learn, or simply people like him who know a little bit o…

can you comment on why you wouldn't use it? I am somewhere in the middle of software engineering and (biological) data science. I have seen some jupyter notebooks as companions to genomics software and I enjoyed those presentations. I was considering using it in the future based on that; so, I wanted to hear your thoughts.

I kind of missed the point of how notebook are used (and should be) and it seems actually very interesting :) So you should definitely look into it and see if you like doing whatever you do with them!

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by k2enemy »

alyandon wrote: post #28
thom wrote: post #17

Probably the longest time-to-knowing-what-the-hell-this-thing-actually-is I've ever seen on HN. Clicked on the link, clicked on a Github link, clicked to the Github root, clicked on the link to the project's site, clicked on the first item in the table of contents, got a vague idea what it was. I feel grumpy and old. :(

It's really annoying to get caught in a blog.domain.com subdomain without any obvious links back to the main domain.

I agree that it is annoying to have the "home" or "main" link go to the blog home. But when you are at blog.domain.com, is it really that difficult for you to figure out how to get to domain.com?

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by aeroevan »

jypepin wrote: post #55
aabaker99 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

can you comment on why you wouldn't use it? I am somewhere in the middle of software engineering and (biological) data science. I have seen some jupyter notebooks as companions to genomics software and I enjoyed those presentations. I was considering using it in the future based on that; so, I wanted to hear your thoughts.

I kind of missed the point of how notebook are used (and should be) and it seems actually very interesting :) So you should definitely look into it and see if you like doing whatever you do with them!

Yeah, the coolest thing I just found out is that nbconvert can be used to turn your python/matplotlib/markdown to reveal.js presentations.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by Smirnoff »

k2enemy wrote: post #57
alyandon wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really annoying to get caught in a blog.domain.com subdomain without any obvious links back to the main domain.

I agree that it is annoying to have the "home" or "main" link go to the blog home. But when you are at blog.domain.com , is it really that difficult for you to figure out how to get to domain.com ?

Yes, on mobile phone it might take a few tries just to alter that web address, especially when the domain name looks like sslmadomaiinnahas. Try remembering that. Navigating to the front part of the url to copy that domain is borderline impossible on tiny safari screen. Clearing the blog part or the part after domain/long-url-ending can also make you rip your hair out because your device might delete the entire url.

Re: Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released

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Post by IndianAstronaut »

dandermotj wrote: post #43
anigbrowl wrote: post #33

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I know. Open source folks, when you put a 'Home' button in the corner, make it go to the project home page, not the blog home page. If there's one thing I can't stand it's a blog post about an update for something that I don't know what it is, and my patience to click around trying to find out whether it is something I would be interested in or not is very limited. I'm glad I did in this case because an open-source e…

Just a heads up: Jupyter Notebook is not an open source alternative to Mathematica. Originally, Jupyter was iPython notebook, an IDE of sorts for data science and analysis in Python, by writing code and markdown together in a more coherent and integrated way. Then they incorporated a host of other popular open source languages for computational science such as R, Julia, F#, ect., so that we could use the best tools f…

>all in one document.

So it is possible to run both R and Python commands in the same notebook?

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