[HN Gopher] Project Jupyter Celebrates 20 Years, Fernando Perez ... ___________________________________________________________________ Project Jupyter Celebrates 20 Years, Fernando Perez Reflects on How It Started Author : infodocket Score : 79 points Date : 2021-08-21 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (data.berkeley.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (data.berkeley.edu) | hatmatrix wrote: | Jupyter has been revolutionary - Steve Yegge predicted that | emacs's greatest competition will be the web browser and this has | been a partial fulfillment of that. I'm personally a big fan of | org-babel due its text-based nature but the accessibility of | Jupyter has made it the great equalizer. | sunsetSamurai wrote: | lol emacs? vscode probably have a million time more user's than | emacs, hell probably vim is more pupular than emacs | DataCrayon wrote: | I'm very grateful for Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebooks. I work | with them more than anything else, and even use them with Rust | [1], my data visualisations [2], and to write my books [3]. | | [1] https://datacrayon.com/posts/programming/rust- | notebooks/setu... | | [2] https://plotapi.com/gallery/posts/showcase/pokemon-types- | wit... | | [3] https://datacrayon.com/shop/ | dfee wrote: | > Twenty years ago, UC Berkeley Associate Statistics Professor | Fernando Perez(link is external) started one of the foundational | tools for analyzing large amounts of data in a transparent and | collaborative way. That project, IPython, evolved into Project | Jupyter(link is external). | | I just used iPython as a REPL because it was so much nicer than | regular ole python (the unwrapped variant). Ipdb was nice too. | abxm wrote: | I've never understood this project. It's like Powerpoint: You can | produce flashy presentations that are largely meaningless and | don't advance science. | | I guess that is why it's popular. | simonw wrote: | I've been using the iPython CLI interface for well over a decade, | but I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to understand how | transformational "iPython notebooks" (now Jupyter) would be. | | I remember seeing new releases of iPython that enhanced the weird | web interface feature and being utterly baffled as to why anyone | would want that. | | I finally got on board with Jupyter notebooks a few years ago and | I've used them multiple times a week ever since. | jwilber wrote: | I did my undergrad at Cal and worked in a research lab Fernando | worked in as well. | | I remember some of the postdocs were very nice and approachable. | Others were very pretentious and cold. | | One thing the other undergrads and myself would always talk about | was how nice Fernando was. He knew everyone's name, would take | the time to give advice, casually chat, etc. - overall a great | person. | | Off topic: A big takeaway from working there was that those who | accomplished the most were often the nicest. We'd have Nobel | laureates come to and from the lab fairly often. They always | seemed very grounded and passionate. The rudest people were | overwhelmingly the 'important' bureaucrats and admin, with the | occasional postdoc trying to make a name for themself. | | tl;dr Fernando Perez is an awesome person all around. | gammarator wrote: | Glad to see Berkeley finally gave him a faculty position. | jjtheblunt wrote: | How does that entire article not mention Theo Gray's 1988 | Mathematica notebooks as the motivation? | | Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica | Causality1 wrote: | _the Value of Diversity in Coding_ | | Strange title on the article itself. There is nothing on this | topic in the article or the interview. | leephillips wrote: | "if you only rely on volunteers or on people who perhaps their | job allows them to do the one thing they like, you will exclude | parts of the population that don't have those affordances. By | building tools without a complete slice of the society you want | to reach, you can't possibly have the impact that you want in | that society. It's not just a technical mission. It's an | ethical mission of building things that have a positive impact | in the world. That impact isn't going to be realized if we're | building things only by a few, because when you build by a few, | you build for a few. If we want to build things that really are | for everyone, we need to build them with everyone." | diskzero wrote: | Jupyter Notebooks have been been so amazingly valuable to me. | Would anyone consider them to be an example of literate | programming? If so, are they the most successful example out | there? | leephillips wrote: | In my article about Pluto1, which is an evolution of the | Jupyter concept specific to Julia, I said that these notebooks | "may be a way to realize Donald Knuth's concept of literate | programming.". | | [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/835930/ | diskzero wrote: | OK Lee, Pluto is one of the cooler things I have seen | recently. I am going to dive in more deeply. | | Gilad Bracha has also been going in this direction with his | recent work on Newspeak and literate programming. | | Is this how Smalltalk is finally going to gain adoption? | mark_l_watson wrote: | He also co-wrote a fantastic NLP demo in Prolog for geographic | queries. I have played with this demo and read the code many | times. Cool stuff. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-21 23:00 UTC)