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Our open source scientific software projects are changing the world. We support projects like Pandas, Julia, & NumPy + organize @PyData!

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Joined January 2013

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Another month has come and gone, and with it, a new batch of project updates from NumFOCUS! Check out this month's project updates on our blog at hubs.la/Q04rvqnP0
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Jul 26
Every episode of Give Me 5 ends with an AI hot take. Ferran Brosa Planella (@brosaplanella), academic at the University of Warwick and core maintainer of PyBaMM, had this to say: "I'm going to be very boring. My hot take is I don't have a hot take." But then he said something
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Jul 25
When Ferran Brosa Planella (@brosaplanella) started his PhD 12 years ago, someone taught him Git. He could not get his head around it. "And then, when you start working on a project — and it's structured, and there's a lot of other people contributing — you start seeing the
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Jul 24
Ferran Brosa-Planella (@brosaplanella) will be the first to admit it: he wasn't great at coding at first. "It was one of those circular arguments. I wasn't very good at it because I didn't like it, and I didn't like it because I wasn't very good at it." Then he took a postdoc
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Jul 11
Yujian Tang has a hot take on AI — and he's not pulling punches: "AI is nowhere near as good as Twitter wants you to think it is." Text models? Solid. Image generation? Getting there. Video generation? Still rough. Audio? Not quite. His point isn't that AI is overhyped full stop
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