Lex Fridman PodcastTravis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224
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- September 23, 2021
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- 3h 5m
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EPISODE LINKS: Travis's Twitter: https://twitter.com/teoliphant Travis's Wiki Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Oliphant NumPy: https://numpy.org/ SciPy: https://scipy.org/about.html Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual Quansight: https://www.quansight.com PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:11 - Early programming 22:52 - SciPy 39:46 - Open source 51:29 - NumPy 1:28:44 - Guido van Rossum 1:41:02 - Efficiency 1:49:54 - Objects 1:56:52 - Numba 2:05:58 - Anaconda 2:10:25 - Conda 2:26:01 - Quansight Labs 2:29:37 - OpenTeams 2:37:10 - GitHub 2:42:40 - Marketing 2:47:18 - Great programming 2:58:08 - Hiring 3:02:06 - Advice for young people SOCIAL:
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Lex Fridman
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Travis Oliphant, Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224 explores travis Oliphant on building Python’s scientific backbone and beyond Travis Oliphant recounts how his love of math and early programming led him to create Numeric, SciPy, NumPy, and later Anaconda/Conda, which together became the core of scientific and data science computing in Python.
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