[Edu-sig] Python Epistemology

[Kirby Urner]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Kirby Urner <kurner at oreillyschool.com>wrote:

<< snip >>


> We're on the same page as the Mathematica people here, and I don't think
> we should worry about any winner-take-all, king-of-the-hill story here.
> IPython Notebook has a Mathematica flavor and that's fine, so does Sage.
> We're in a synergy relationship.
>
> That's especially true in the space of my workplace, where a lot of the
> brain cycles have been committed to Hilbert, software that brings in
> Mathematica over the server to a browser-based client.  Others of us teach
> Python and other executable notations.  Per your integrating vision, it's
> all one domain.
>
> http://www.makingmath.com/  (same group as O'Reilly School)
>

Here's a post worth linking to right at this juncture as it gives a lot of
the history of the O'Reilly School endeavor.

Written by the spouse, Trish, of the founder, Scott Gray:

http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2013/02/with-respect-to-osts-executive-director.html

Scott's transformative trip to Russia is talked more about here:

http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2010/05/the-story-of-the-oreilly-school-of-technology-part-2.html

That's somewhat where my slide show comes in, as I mentioned saying our
company is based in Sebastopol **, followed by a pregnant pause before I
say "California".

Kirby

 ** *Sevastopol* (pron.: /<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English>
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s <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>t<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>
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/ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English>; previously *
Sebastopol*; Ukrainian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language>and
Russian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language>: Севасто́поль; Crimean
Tatar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatar_language>: *Aqyar*) is
one of two cities with special
status<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_with_special_status>in
Ukraine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine> (the other being the
capital, Kiev <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev>), located on the
Black Sea<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea>coast of the Crimean
Peninsula <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Peninsula>. It has a
population of 342,451
(2001).[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol#cite_note-geohive-1>Sevastopol
is the second largest port in Ukraine
[*dubious <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disputed_statement> –
discuss <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sevastopol#Dubious>*],
after the Port
of Odessa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Odessa>.  [Wikipedia]

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