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by travisoliphant 14d ago
Travis Oliphant here. That is very negative and completely unfounded take on my efforts to hire, fund, and redirect resources to open-source developers. I'm saddened and disheartened that you would feel that way. I didn't contr
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by travisoliphant 3y ago
Congratulations on the launch and work so far! This is indeed very interesting. I believe a language like this is necessary for future progress. I have also been impressed with Julia and its progress. I would have liked to see more progre
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by travisoliphant 3y ago
This is a very good point. You must support AOT compilation if you are going to have a general purpose system. This was clear when Julia came out and I interacted with core developers communicating our experience with creating SciPy and th
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by travisoliphant 4y ago
There is a branch of the 3.9 release that removed the GIL created by Sam Gross that you can read about here: https://gavincyi.github.io/2022-10-03-does-sam-gross-nogil-c... There is some work to bring it up to 3.12 and some
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by travisoliphant 4y ago
Thank you for stepping up and taking this seriously and quickly helping to restore the SymPy Documentation to the internet.
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by travisoliphant 4y ago
I'm sorry about triggering you. I can see your point. I did not mean to focus attention away from what happened and how to avoid it. I am sincerely interested in seeing if the HackerRank leadership will reach out and discuss. I was no
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by travisoliphant 4y ago
Thanks for showing up here and replying. I can understand the net being cast too wide for a real problem you are trying to solve. It does have real consequences for already under-resourced communities, though. I appreciate the "fix-it
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by travisoliphant 4y ago
This is related to the idea of EPython that we are working on (as we have funding): https://github.com/epython-dev/epython It currently emits Cython for the C-backend (and PyIodide). It is very alpha currently, but
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by travisoliphant 5y ago
This author misses the point that the first problem a business faces is how to get customers and how to please them. Getting customers is the number one priority -- perfect architecture is only important to the degree that helps get custom
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Using Pyflyby to speed up interactive development with Python(labs.quansight.org)
3 points by travisoliphant 5y ago|0 comments
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Draft Array API Standard Released for Public Comment(data-apis.org)
5 points by travisoliphant 6y ago|0 comments
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by travisoliphant 6y ago
I think this is true. I have used the Python C-API heavily having started SciPy and NumPy and Numba. I have a pre-alpha plan for addressing the C-API by introducing EPython (a typed subset of Python for extending it). It is not usable an
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by travisoliphant 6y ago
I didn’t read the entire thread of previous discussion. The referenced article is consistent with the work of Thomas Metzinger who wrote a very accessible book called “The Ego Tunnel” as a follow on to his more detailed and scholarly treat
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by travisoliphant 6y ago
This is about creating a standard for array computing in Python which has been around for more than 20 years. NumPy (which has been a de facto standard) has been around for 14 years and was based on Numeric which was around for 10 years be
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by travisoliphant 6y ago
I agree that interfaces like Datasette are a fantastic idea. But, it's not the same thing. Think of this more like the SQL standard. What would you do if SQL did not exist and there were no common ways to discuss querying databases?
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by travisoliphant 6y ago
Bias warning --- I'm part of the group doing this work. For an end-user, your arguments are fine. A single developer or team can indeed use whatever tool they want and adapt their code without too much difficulty. The real challenge c
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by travisoliphant 6y ago
I didn't perceive it to be an argument for anything specific. I did not get the sense the author is suggesting either lifting restrictions or not. I saw it as more of a piece trying to get us all to think harder and better and expose
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by travisoliphant 7y ago
Travis Oliphant, here. OpenTeams is much bigger than me, but I have been part of the early team putting energy into the effort. Henry has captured some of the personal motivations for me. They are sincere. There are plenty of ways for me
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by travisoliphant 7y ago
I was also there on Thursday and agree. The talks were actually observing that cloud giants do alter the business landscape for open-source, but there are always innovations and possibilities. There were one or two talks on alternative li
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by travisoliphant 8y ago
Thank you for doing this. This is a great idea. If every company that used open source committed to supporting the projects they depend on with this kind of approach, it would solve a lot of the current sustainability problems. I look fo
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by travisoliphant 9y ago
I believe it is true that you can make more money selling non-free software (some of the profits from which should always be used to make free software). You can generate money only through free software, however. Here are three approach
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by travisoliphant 9y ago
Original NumPy author here. I have a lot to say on this topic, given that it has literally consumed my life over the past 20 years. You can go here for some thoughts about some of this: http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com&#
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by travisoliphant 9y ago
Yes, I agree. I would love to see parts of what is in Pandas actually supported better in NumPy.
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by travisoliphant 9y ago
No. I'm not aware of this happening. NumPy built on Numeric which was primarily written by Jim Hugunin while he was a grad student at MIT. While I was a professor at BYU, I wrote the the core of NumPy with a lot of community input --
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by travisoliphant 9y ago
Continuum co-founder here and previous NumPy developer. We received funding for Bokeh and also explorations around scalable "NumPy-like" work. The efforts around Blaze produced Numba, Dask, and Datashape as well as a more limite
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by travisoliphant 9y ago
I don't think this is very true. There hasn't been much private funding for NumPy. People working at private companies have worked sometimes on NumPy but very rarely as part of their full-time job.
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NumFOCUS past and future(technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com)
3 points by travisoliphant 10y ago|0 comments
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by travisoliphant 10y ago
Kudos on the post and for sharing. I really enjoyed reading the candor and hearing from your experiences. I heard amazing things about RethinkDB and admire your team for what you did.
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by travisoliphant 10y ago
There may still be a few routines that expect C-ordered arrays and so require a copy be made when given a Fortran-ordered array --- especially as you extend to one of libraries that use NumPy. For the most, part, however, Fortran-ordered
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by travisoliphant 10y ago
Lua is indeed a pretty nice language for some use-cases and it's nice to see this example. It would also be great to see a comparison to Numba which is a Python JIT particularly suited for fast numerical computing with Python: http

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