NumFOCUS

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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

NumFOCUS
@NumFOCUS
Aug 10
[Project Update] @Blosc2 Python-Blosc2 4.9.1 A hotfix for the Arrow interop work in 4.9.0. Dictionary-column Arrow export via CTable.iter_arrow_batches() was recomputing live row positions on every batch — now computed once per export call, yielding 6–14x faster export on 1M-row
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Aug 8
[Project Update ] @OptunaAutoML v5 release candidate coming in August Optuna v4.9 is the last in the v4 series. The team is preparing a v5 release candidate for early August, which will include a new method for calculating hyperparameter importance for conditional parameters —
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@NumFOCUS
Aug 7
"We as scientists were never really there to just write code. We were there to solve problems. The code's always been a tax." Andy Terrel — NumFOCUS co-founder and NVIDIA engineer — thinks AI coding tools are finally lowering the overhead cost that's always stood between a
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Aug 6
[Project Update] @fenicsproject wins the 2026 EMS/ECMI Lanczos Prize The FEniCS Project team has been awarded the 2026 EMS/ECMI Lanczos Prize for Mathematical Software — recognized for their revolutionary contributions to the implementation of the finite element method. The
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Aug 6
The Season 2 finale of Give ME 5 is now live! Andy Terrel has been working on GPUs since 2009. And his job at NVIDIA is to make sure Python scientists can actually use them. What does that look like in practice? → CUDA Python 1.0: a stable API for GPU-accelerated Python — just
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