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I Like Notebooks
Jeremy Howard
Jeremy Howard defends Jupyter notebooks as a serious development environment, especially when paired with nbdev. He responds directly to Joel Grus's talk about why he dislikes notebooks, and contrasts REPL-style and notebook-style work.
Whenever notebooks get criticized, HN commenters point to it as the standard rebuttal from a prominent practitioner.
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