Paul Romer, 2018 Economics Nobel Laureate, uses Python and Jupyter
Terry Reedy wrote (to comp.lang.python)
https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-the-research-pap... Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper Paul Romer, new Nobel prize winner in economics, for research on how ideas interact with economic growth, explained last April why he has switched from Mathematica to Jupyter.
Well done, Terry, for spotting this. I hope you don't mind, I've changed the subject to give Paul Romer star billing. I think he deserves it.
Here's some URLs on Romer and Python.
https://qz.com/1417145/economics-nobel-laureate-paul-romer-is-a-python-progr... https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/10/09/0042240/economics-nobel-laure... https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/9mhxq2/this_years_nobel_prize_in_ec... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173812&ref=hvper.com&utm_sour... https://www.wsj.com/articles/nobel-in-economics-goes-to-american-pair-153899...
And some related URLs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01322-9 # Future of online publishing https://pypi.org/project/nobel/ # Python interface to Nobel Prize API! https://jfine2358.github.io/slides/2018-nature-jupyter-altair-vega-binder.ht...
And some Python code:
import nobel api = nobel.Api() api.prizes.filter(year=2018, category='economics')[0].laureates[1].surname
u'Romer'
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:29 AM Jonathan Fine jfine2358@gmail.com wrote:
Terry Reedy wrote (to comp.lang.python)
https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-the-research-pap...
Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper Paul Romer, new Nobel prize winner in economics, for research on how ideas interact with economic growth, explained last April why he has switched from Mathematica to Jupyter.
Well done, Terry, for spotting this. I hope you don't mind, I've changed the subject to give Paul Romer star billing. I think he deserves it.
Here's some URLs on Romer and Python.
https://qz.com/1417145/economics-nobel-laureate-paul-romer-is-a-python-progr...
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/10/09/0042240/economics-nobel-laure...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/9mhxq2/this_years_nobel_prize_in_ec...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18173812&ref=hvper.com&utm_sour...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nobel-in-economics-goes-to-american-pair-153899...
And some related URLs
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01322-9 # Future of online publishing https://pypi.org/project/nobel/ # Python interface to Nobel Prize API!
https://jfine2358.github.io/slides/2018-nature-jupyter-altair-vega-binder.ht...
And some Python code:
import nobel api = nobel.Api() api.prizes.filter(year=2018,
category='economics')[0].laureates[1].surname u'Romer'
Is there an idea for Python hidden somewhere in this message?
Geoffrey Spear wrote:
Is there an idea for Python hidden somewhere in this message?
Thank you, Geoffrey, for pointing this out. I'd have done better to prefixed the title with OFF-TOPIC. That would have been more polite.
To answer your question: Django created a new community of Python users. As did, for example, NumPy, Raspberry Pi, SciPy and other worthy examples, such as PyData.
Python, in part because of the shared experience we have on this list, has made many good decisions that work well across the board. I think we're pragmatic, and concerned about our users. Paul Romer's Nobel Prize draws attention to an emerging new community.
I don't mean economics. I mean scholarly publishing. See:
https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-the-research-pap... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01322-9 # Future of online publishing
By the way, back in the 1980s TeX and LaTeX were the future of STEM publishing. I think Jupyter is well placed to be 'the Django of STEM publishing', or if you prefer 'the LaTeX of the 2020s'. Things change.
The relevance to this list? Off-topic, but I hope adding to our shared relevant background knowledge.
I will try to remember the OFF-TOPIC in future.
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