Archives of #Sprint

EuroSciPy 2013 write-up

The conference is over, tomorrow I’m sticking around to Sprint on scikit-learn. As last year it has been a lot of fun to catch up with colleagues out here in Brussels. Here’s Logilab’s write-up. Yesterday I spoke on Building an Open Source Data Science company. Topics included how companies benefit from open sourcing their tools, […]

More Python 3.3 downloads than Python 2.7 for past 3 months

Since PyCon 2013 I’ve been in a set of conversations that start with “should I be using Python 3.3 for science work?”. Here’s a recent reddit thread on the subject. Last year I solidly recommended using Python 2.7 for scientific work (as many key libraries weren’t yet supported). I’m on the cusp of changing my […]

EuroSciPy Parallel Python tutorial now online

I taught Parallel Python at EuroSciPy 2012 last week in Brussels, I’ve uploaded all the necessary stuff. In the talk we covered: multiprocessing (built in) parallelpython (an easy shift from multiprocessing to do mult-machine and -core processing) gearman (cross-platform job server for heterogeneous job processing) picloud.com (was python only, now any infrastructure cloud-based processing using […]