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Lofkin··on Why I don't use ggplot2
What do you think of bokeh: https://github.com/DataWookie/MonthOfJulia
Lofkin··on Show HN: Transcrypt – Fast, small Python 3.5 to JavaScript transpiler
Does this work on windows? Rapydscript does not IIRC
Lofkin··on Bokeh – a Python interactive visualization library
Call the libraries with Rpy2, or build models using a DAG of functions and distributions with pymc 3
Lofkin··on Python Serialization Performance
Have you seen numba? Compiles numerical python approaching fortran speeds
Lofkin··on Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler
Nuitka is already faster than Cpython and it seems a majority of the speed work has yet to be done.
Lofkin··on State of Clojure 2015: Survey Results
Julia will when it can compile to web assembly
Lofkin··on Pyjion – A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR
Awesome!

A while back there was some talk of native excel-python integration. Any chance that is in the pipes, or is MS sticking to R in that sense?

Lofkin··on Pyjion – A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR
Sweet, new Microsoft is awesome!

Pyston seems to be catching up to PyPy fairly quickly ...not sure if there is anything transferable to pyjion, but if you haven't done so might be worth checking out.

Also for getting around the GIL, PyParallel seems to have a really interesting (and seemingly successful approach: http://pyparallel.org/

Its being worked on by one of the Guy's at continuum...and It's definitely in continuum's best interest to help python's future so I'm sure they wouldn't mind collab.

Lofkin··on Pyjion – A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR
Exciting work! Is pyjion exploratory or is MS determined to see this through?
Lofkin··on Antioxidants May Make Cancer Worse
What sort of diet and supplements?
Lofkin··on From Python to Lua: Why We Switched
Nuitka?
Lofkin··on I missed Nim (2014)
For now...
Lofkin··on GoQt
Not a problem for Julia: https://github.com/Keno/Cxx.jl
Lofkin··on I missed Nim (2014)
What about when Julia gets those things?
Lofkin··on Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?
Thoughts on Julia?
Lofkin··on Introducing U-SQL, a language for big data processing
Solved here: http://www.ibis-project.org/index.html
Lofkin··on Julia's Arraypocalypse Release
Makes sense. Thanks for both your open source work and your reply!
Lofkin··on Julia's Arraypocalypse Release
Also, any plans for the stats ecosystem? (dataframe, dashboards, imputation, data cleaning etc)

It is still a bit wanting.

Lofkin··on Julia's Arraypocalypse Release
"However, it gives us the ability to do some really amazing things with our array infrastructure going forward."

What kind of things? Super curious.

Lofkin··on Python 3.5 and Multitasking
The GIL issue has been solved without breaking backwards compat: http://pyparallel.org/

It just need further dev work and acceptance into py3

Lofkin··on Python 3.5 and Multitasking
Sure!

If you like it, can you please blog about it (and post on hn)? Needs exposure outside the python data community.

Lofkin··on Python 3.5 and Multitasking
Your example is trivially parallelized with some decorators from the dask library.

Example here: http://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/imperative.html

Lofkin··on Python 3.5 and Multitasking
Have you seen this: http://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/
Lofkin··on Python 3.5 and Multitasking
They pretty much already did, but with 3.x: http://pyparallel.org/
Lofkin··on Python 3.5 and Multitasking
Better multitasking and concurrency syntax, with task scheduling and out of core support here: http://dask.pydata.org/
Lofkin··on Python 3.5 and Multitasking
Try this: http://dask.pydata.org/
Lofkin··on Programming R at native speed using Haskell
You can use python, call out to R libraries with Rpy2 and speed up loops to faster than Julia and around native Speed with numba
Lofkin··on A Comparison of Programming Languages in Economics [pdf]
Try numba in python. Its usually fortran fast and often faster than Julia.
Lofkin··on [dead]
Any thoughts on what this guy is saying?
Lofkin··on React, Flux, RethinkDB and SageMathCloud – Summer 2015 Update
Check this out for frontend in python: https://github.com/zoofIO/flexx
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