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by pwang 2y ago
What if you want to ensure that the same packages are available, built in a similar way, between your Mac and some linux servers? What if you need to share or ensure that your projects work between Linux and Windows? What if you are suppor
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by pwang 2y ago
I posted an update about this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pzwang_hi-everyone-recently-t... TLDR - we are working to clean up this language to leave it clear that educational institutions are exempt, and that these
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by pwang 2y ago
Fun joke but Anaconda has a track record of creating OSS and then turning it over to community governance. This includes the conda tool itself, libraries like bokeh, dask, numba, jupyterlab, and many more. And while PyScript project govern
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by pwang 2y ago
Anaconda Code is what you're looking for! It's Python (via PyScript) running as an Excel plug-in, that has full access to the spreadsheet and can harness a big part of the core PyData stack (including matplotlib, sklearn, pandas,
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by pwang 4y ago
Over 50% of Python users report using it for data-related things, e.g. data science, ML, etc. (Jetbrains poll) That's numpy, pandas, sklearn, and friends.
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by pwang 5y ago
I feel you on this. Having done a lot of Python consulting for engineers and scientists, it is absolutely the case that most non-programmers have -zero- model of what I/O latency and bandwidth limitations look like. They are looking
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by pwang 5y ago
The homepage that's linked from Github seems to be down? https://renpy.beuc.net/
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by pwang 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback... I had no idea that pyenv was hosing conda envs. Do you have more details on this brokenness?
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by pwang 5y ago
This is one of the reasons people use Anaconda/miniconda for non-data science work: conda environments are self-contained Python installs, so if you conda/pip install packages into those environments, they will not break each ot
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by pwang 5y ago
Thanks! FWIW, we are soon going to be releasing a much faster depedency resolver. We are also thinking hard about how best to address the "growing ecosystem" problem, in a future-proof way.
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by pwang 5y ago
You only need a commercial license under certain circumstances, and it only pertains to accessing the default package repository at repo.anaconda.com. You can still use conda-forge etc. Conda itself (the packaging tool) remains open sourc
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by pwang 5y ago
You keep reposting this Nature article but it is vacuous. There are many "guilt by association to Trump", "false equivalency to outrageous conspiracy theories", etc. and other non-good-faith argumentation that the author
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by pwang 5y ago
Don't forget Summa Technologiae, from 1964, wherein he wanted to example the "thorns of roses yet to bloom": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae It's tempting to say that Lem was way ah
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by pwang 6y ago
There is a factual inaccuracy in the article: Beaker Browser is not "actually under the control of governments and big corporations". It is an independent open-source project.
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by pwang 7y ago
Pirsig was more well known as I was coming of age in the 1990s. Seems to be less talked about among the younger crowds now? The sequel to ZAMM is the far more illuminating book, IMO. His metaphysics of quality continue to be a useful metap
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by pwang 8y ago
Exactly. Ads are a legacy business model of a legacy distribution system. Too few people have read JPB's excellent "Selling wine without bottles", but that is in full effect here. The problem is that new content-centric bu
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by pwang 8y ago
> It looks like that paper is about the transformations of visualizations for higher dimensional data, not rendering accuracy, so these two things are being conflated even though they are completely separate concepts. Actually, no. The p
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by pwang 8y ago
Yes, datashader actually gives you the ability to dial-in as much gamma compensation as you want, to account for the human visual system's nonlinear response to luminance.
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by pwang 8y ago
I think you are deliberately trying to misunderstand what is being done in this project. It's not about what APIs are being used to render whatever. At that level of analysis, all that anybody is every doing, is just doing memcpy and b
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by pwang 8y ago
It's actually not merely an accumulation buffer. It's a shader pipeline that allows for arbitrary Python code to be executed at each stage of data processing. It's actually very much like "renderman for data", but
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by pwang 8y ago
You're missing the point of this project. It's not about the feasibility of throwing a billion points at a pile of software, to get an image. I can do that with a simple Python script. It's about doing so to create a meanin
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by pwang 8y ago
This paper on our original ideas of "Abstract Rendering" talks about the kinds of accuracy problems that plague the visualization of large datasets: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Abstract-rendering%3A-
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by pwang 8y ago
It's certainly the same feeling I had back in 2010 when I knew I had to quit my job and start pushing Python for data analysis.
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by pwang 8y ago
Yes
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by pwang 8y ago
Because selling stuff requires more effort than just "here's my price, pay me". By doing that, you've put your code into the realm of "commercial software", which engages with companies/corporate use in a
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by pwang 8y ago
False. They're trying to create a new marketplace where commercial users of OSS can actually give money back to FOSS devs. Many FOSS devs live a life of poverty because they have no idea how to actually sell things of value around th
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by pwang 8y ago
Yep, F500 companies bring in all sorts of external tools to look at their source code, for compliance, security, etc.
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by pwang 8y ago
NumPy and other things in the Python ecosystem are certainly part of what they're considering. The founder/CEO of Tidelift is actually participating in a keynote panel this morning at the NumFOCUS summit. I get it, it's fun t
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by pwang 8y ago
> The fact that raytracing (onto a 2D plane) and rasterization are essentially isomorphic to one another is a powerful observation. Hasn't this been a pretty well-known perspective (no pun intended) for a couple of decades now?
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by pwang 8y ago
I was first annoyed at the amateur level of analysis in this piece. "Um, it's 2018, open source software runs production workflows in every single business; if you don't realize yet that every industry in the world is being

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