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I Like Notebooks

Jeremy Howard · 55K views · 2020-10-29 · 52:09

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Overview

Jeremy Howard defends Jupyter notebooks as a serious development environment, especially when paired with nbdev. He responds directly to Joel Grus's talk about why he dislikes notebooks, and contrasts REPL-style and notebook-style work.

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Whenever notebooks get criticized, HN commenters point to it as the standard rebuttal from a prominent practitioner.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2020–2025

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3eb7988a1663 · 2024-09 · Strong recommendation

That video cannot be seen without watching Jeremy Howard's rebuttal: I Like Notebooks. I also believe this was the video that got him kicked out of a conference(?) because it was too confrontational? Which was just ugly for a guy who clearly loves being an educator. [0] [VIDEO]

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armanboyaci · 2020-12 · Strong recommendation

I strongly recommend Jeremy Howard's (founder of fast.ai) recent talk - "I Like Notebooks" ( [VIDEO] ). He addresses some of the concerns/critiques about jupyter notebooks.

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tosh · 2020-10 · Strong recommendation

If you haven't yet: I think both talks are very worth watching: I don't like notebooks ( [LINK] ) by Joel Grus I like notebooks ( [VIDEO] ) by Jeremy Howard notebooks are a very interesting medium and they have both shortcomings as well as things they are great at and neither were totally obvious to me.

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