[tomrod]

I was in Austin while Travis Oliphant's wave from numpy led to Anaconda. After that we got to bring them in as consultants. It was wild talking to the team and hearing the inside-track dev info. It isn't a surprise to me that Python, as flexible and glue code as it is, became the Excel language of Scientific Computing.

[nequo]

What kinds of things did you hear from them?

[tomrod]

Mostly the vision and ideals which became Anaconda, conda, and miniconda, as well as the translation of ideas to use cases to implementations, and some ideas that came about later in other forms or libraries (numba, pytorch).

Basically a mini/beta/in-progress version of Pycon each week.