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Keynote: Begin...End?

David Beazley · talk · Watch on YouTube

Python, Ruby & scripting languagesHistory of computingData science & statistics

What it is

David Beazley's PyData Global 2021 keynote, an oral history of early scientific Python. He tells how Python ended up running on a Connection Machine supercomputer at Los Alamos.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in threads about Python's rise as a first-hand, entertaining account of why it won in scientific computing.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Quite enjoyable but light on in depth technical stuff.”

    Hour-long enjoyable talk on how Beazley got Python running on a Connection Machine

    tda, 2021-11 · Recommendation · in “The Design of the Connection Machine (1994)”

  2. “I recommend one of the recent videos by Dave Beazly”

    First-hand insights on Python's rise in 90s scientific computing, entertaining

    jackjackk0, 2022-03 · Recommendation · in “The counterintuitive rise of Python in scientific computing (2020)”

  3. “Watch this talk”

    Explains Python winning as a wrapper language for scientific computing

    Qem, 2023-08 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: python, los alamos, connection machine, scientific computing, history

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