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I don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
O'Reilly
Joel Grus's JupyterCon talk explaining why he dislikes Jupyter notebooks. He covers hidden state, trouble with reproducibility and testing, and how notebooks frustrate teaching. He shows his preferred workflow and what Jupyter could change.
It is the go-to funny, irreverent critique of notebooks, linked whenever HN debates notebooks versus testable code.
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