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by rjeli 3347 days ago
Mathematica gets live code, data visualization, and ML, all with a lispy+tacit+functional syntax. I find it much more integrated and easy to use compared to Jupyter notebook, although it's near useless for anything imperative -- I find myself using Jupyter a lot these days to develop one-off scripts interactively.

(please, no one mention stephen)

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(I am pleased you brought up Stephen W, and also that you asked us not to. That's all you'll get from me.)
I would have called him the W-ster and respect parent's wishes
> (please, no one mention stephen)

Why? Does he come to every place that mentions his name, like that AI guy?

Because any HN discussion that mentions the W-word will inevitably devolve into discussion of the controversial man