by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Present and past weave together. New tools or old techniques?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I am a bit slow on the uptake of “new” things from time to time. This past week or so I stumbled across this thing called Jupyter. It is a type of “notebook.” Some call it yet another implementation of the “notebook” paradigm. It allows the analyst to weave descriptions of work with short pieces of computer programs. Hmmm. I like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lest we forget…and old people are want to forget at times and remember at others…I seem to recall…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Literate programming<\/a>: Donald Knuth<\/a> invented this a few generations ago. (It seems that anything of value invented in the past 50 years came from Knuth<\/a>, Dijkstra<\/a>, or Weinberg<\/a>.) Literate programming combined descriptions of what a person was thinking in English with descriptions of what the computer should do in computer-understandable language, i.e., source code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Literate programming didn’t catch on nearly as much as I felt it should have. I think the trouble with literate programming and these analyst notebooks is that the person is thinking, understands their thinking, wants to communicate their thinking, and can communicate their thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That is a lot to ask of folks these days. That is a lot to ask of folks any days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, I consider the concept worth exploring and introducing to colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Present and past weave together. New tools or old techniques? I am a bit slow on the uptake of “new” things from time to time. This past week or so I stumbled across this thing called Jupyter. It is a type of “notebook.” Some call it yet another implementation of the “notebook” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,293,23],"tags":[200,294,145],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-concepts","category-programming","tag-computing","tag-concepts","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2900,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}