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Python, OCaml, and Machine Learning with Laurent Mazare

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

The Problem With a Python Notebook

In Excel spreadsheets every cell is a computation which makes references to other cells and Excel keeps track of this graph of computations. In a Python notebook, you have like little chunks of code, which are almost like the equations. And so you can look at a notebook and you have no guarantee that it's in a consistent state. So there are certain things to be more functional than what a Python would be.

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