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#224 – Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Chalkboard and SciPy
In 2001, when SciPy first came out, people were starting to use it. At the same time, there was a little bit of, like the Hubble Space Telescope,. The folks at Hubble said, hey, we're going to use Python for processing images fromHubble. And so I got really bugged by that they wouldn't share data with each other. So in 2005I started writing an open-source tool called Nomare which lets you create scientific libraries on top of SciPy. That's what led me to start working on SciPy today.
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