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Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

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The Long Shadow of 1970s Technical Debt

SciPy has been fighting various multiple genealogies and multiple generations of Python packaging tools for 10 years, right? It's an unsolved problem because we've inherited the C, linker, and loader. And ultimately, that is part of the core API spec of the underlying operating system. The concept of having static linkage or dynamic linkage between software libraries on PC-based systems sucks. If you want to have multiple different versions of libraries and you have to build framework builds of them, they'll need access to raw GL context. On Linux, any of you guys heard of a thing called Docker or use a thing called docker? Love Docker.

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