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#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Power of Dictionaries in Python

Dictionaries are a good example of an abstraction that's powerful. It took me a little while coming from just the array programming entirely to understand these other objects like dictionaries and lists, tuples and binary trees. But once you do, you realize they're everywhere and Python uses them everywhere too. So it is it's powerful order dictionaries came later, but it is very, very powerful.

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