The following is a conversation with Travis Oliphant, one of the most impactful programmers and data scientists ever. He created NumPy, SciPy, and Anaconda. NumPy formed the foundation of tensor based machine learning in Python, SciPy formed the foundation of scientific programming in Python, and Anaconda, specifically with Conda, made Python more accessible to a much larger audience. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| To support this podcast, please check out our sponsors in the description. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Just a simple loop in BASIC. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Did you use go to statements? Yes, yes, we used go to statements. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| That's, yeah, it was Pascal. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Now, sorry for the romanticized question, but when did you first fall in love with programming? Oh, man, good question. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| That's when I really sort of fell in love with programming. So this is a full, like a real computer with like, with memory and storage, processors and whatnot, because you say TI. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Remember that old, the sound that would play when you converted the modems would convert digital bits to audio files set on a tape drive. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| And then they had a VisiCalc, and so a little bit of spreadsheet programming in VisiCalc, but mostly just some basic. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| And so I did great at timetables. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Yeah, not then. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| And that's still work, but it's getting easier. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| And then you actually, I do definitely believe that language limits or expands your thinking. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| And it's like broken promises. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| The ones that I know about, which are translated and I'm curious how the translations. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| I actually have a few conversations coming up offline and also in this podcast with people who've translated Dostoevsky. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| You know, there's so many ways to translate that. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Yeah, that's a fascinating reality, I think. I know people have explored that, but it's just rediscovered. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Like, yeah, I'll go to Brazil and Argentina, but will I truly understand the people if I don't understand the language? It's sad because I wonder how much, how many geniuses were missing because so much of the scientific world, so much of the technical world is in English, and so much of it might be lost because it's just we don't have the common language. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| Fundamentally for that reason, well, several reasons, but it just hurts us. |||||||| HIDDEN IN PREVIEW MODE ||||||| I first encountered Python in 1997. I was a graduate student studying biomedical engineering at the Mayo Clinic.

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