Why thousands of volunteers are transcribing the notebooks of the scientist who inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) is usually remembered as the inventor of a revolutionary miner’s safety lamp. But his wild popularity came as much from his influence on popular culture as it did from his contributions to chemistry and applied …
We used 60-year-old notebooks to find out why male hippos have bigger tusks than females: Courtship behaviour of a male and female hippopotamus in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, showing the larger head and tusk sizes of the adult male on left. Graeme Shannon, Author provided Male hippopotamuses are an unusual size. Among mammals, males are …
Why I love using the IPython shell and Jupyter notebooks: The Jupyter project started out as IPython and the IPython Notebook. It was originally a Python-specific interactive shell and notebook environment, which later branched out to become language-agnostic, supporting Julia, Python, and R—and potentially anything else. read more: Opensource.com ben_nuttall Supporting Open Source. Have you …
Teach Python with Jupyter Notebooks: Some things about the Ruby community have always impressed me. Two examples are the commitment to testing and the emphasis on making it easy to get started. The best example of both is Ruby Koans, where you learn Ruby by fixing tests. read more: Opensource.com Moshe Zadka Supporting Open Source. Have …
Create a slide deck using Jupyter Notebooks: There are many options when it comes to creating slides for a presentation. There are straightforward ways, and generating slides directly from Jupyter is not one of them. But I was never one to do things the easy way. I also have high expectations that no other slide-generation …
Build a remote management console using Python and Jupyter Notebooks: Secure shell (SSH) is a powerful tool for remote administration, but it lacks some niceties. Writing a full-fledged remote administration console sounds like it would be a lot of work. Surely, someone in the open source community has already written something? They have, and its …
Acer Launches Enduro Lineup of Rugged Notebooks and Tablets: • The new Enduro series of rugged devices, featuring MIL-810G and up to IP65 certifications, are designed for first responders, field and manufacturing workers • In addition to physical protection, the devices also include a host of security and management services such as the Acer Enduro …
IPython is still the heart of Jupyter Notebooks for Python developers: I recently wrote about how I find Jupyter projects, especially JupyterLab, to be a magical Python development experience. In researching how the various projects are related to each other, I recapped how Jupyter began as a fork from IPython. As Project Jupyter’s The Big Split™ …
Ansible, Linux apps, Jupyter Notebooks, a Raspberry Pi baby monitor, Python, and more: The most popular articles on Opensource.com last week rounded up Linux apps, dug into Python, and provided getting-started guides for Jupyter Notebooks, Ansible, Hugo, and more. Here’s the list of reader favorites from March 26-April 1: read more: Opensource.com Rikki Endsley Supporting …