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Keynote: Begin...End?

David Beazley

Keynote: Begin...End?

David Beazley's PyData Global 2021 keynote, an oral history of early scientific Python. He tells how Python ended up running on a Connection Machine supercomputer at Los Alamos.

Cited in threads about Python's rise as a first-hand, entertaining account of why it won in scientific computing.

5 Hacker News mentions · 2021–2024

Topics

  • Python, Ruby & scripting languages
  • History of computing
  • Data science & statistics

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