#252: What scientific computing can learn from CS

Large language models and chat-based AIs are kind of mind blowing at the moment. Many of us are playing with them for working on code or just as a fun alternative to search. But others of us are build...

30 Maj 20231h 13min

If you're looking for fun data sets for learning, for teaching, maybe a conference talk, or even if you're just really into them, sports offers up a continuous stream of rich data that many people can...

22 Maj 202357min

The release of Pydantic 2.0, its partial rewrite in Rust, and its refactoring into Pydantic core and top-level Pydantic in Python is big news. In fact, the alpha of Pydantic 2 was just released. Of co...

15 Maj 202350min

At PyCon 2023, there was a section of the expo floor dedicated to new Python- based companies called Startup Row. I wanted to bring their stories and the experience of talking with these new startups ...

7 Maj 202352min

Did you make this year's PyCon event in the US? There was a lot of excitement this time around in Salt Lake City. In this episode I'll bring you a bunch of experiences we had this year. It starts wher...

26 Apr 202347min

What if we distributed CPython, the runtime, in the same way we distributed Python packages - as prebuilt binary wheels that only need to be downloaded and unzipped to run? For starters, that would me...

19 Apr 20231h 18min

What advice would you give someone just getting into Python? What did you learn over time through hard work and a few tears that would have really helped you? It's a fun game to play and we have Jason...

14 Apr 20231h 3min

AI has taken the world by storm. It's gone from near zero to amazing in just a few years. We have ChatGPT, we have Stable Diffusion. But what about Jupyter Notebooks and pandas? In this episode, we me...

6 Apr 20231h 5min