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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is It Possible to Build a Binary Installer?

SciPy is a distribution of Python, masquerning as a library. The original vision of SciPy was to have plotting and kind of a whole data environment that you could then install and get going with. Early on it's challenging at scale because more people came together in building the product. It sort of had a one-to-one mentality where there were too many cooks in the kitchen. When it comes to bringing it all together into a single deliverable, that actually requires cooperation.

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