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bobson_dugnutt5
13d ago
Thank you, your the only person to correctly interpret my comment :)
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bobson_dugnutt5
13d ago
Really? You've written out all the ratios and thresholds manually. If a user wanted to change the set of thresholds the polars way is far superior. In what way do you consider this better?
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bobson_dugnutt5
14d ago
Here are a couple reasons: - much faster, multithreaded by default. Read in a big csv with it and see how it feels. - no index/MultiIndex. Pandas special treatment of index always felt like more trouble than it was worth, so no need to
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bobson_dugnutt5
14d ago
What is it about polars syntax you don't like? The fact that is very verbose? At first I wasn't a fan, but over time I've grown to really like it. That never happened to me with pandas, always felt the syntax was messy
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bobson_dugnutt5
14d ago
Fair point, but you can do something like `df.select("x", y=pl.col.w/pl.col.z)`
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bobson_dugnutt5
14d ago
I love polars. Did a lot of evangelizing in work to get people to give up pandas in favor of it.
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bobson_dugnutt5
16d ago
https://beyondloom.com/blog/octojam.html looks like the game jams are no longer happening. Quite a sad post to read
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bobson_dugnutt5
2mo ago
I don't find this convincing at all. The actual interesting attempt at scientific theory of harmony in this could be distilled to a couple of lines, yet the author rambles endlessly in ways that don't add to the piece at all. I al