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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How Can I Write a Python Script?

In 98, when he was just putting a collection of modules on the net. People were downloading and you know, I think I got a hundred users right by the beginning of that year. And then people started to email me with fixes. That was actually intoxicating. It's like effectiveness and its power. You have to think, can I write scripts? Can I write programs that can be used by by medical engineers, by all kinds of people that don't know programming?"

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