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“Why marimo lets me dream about Python notebooks again”
with Vincent WarmerdamFor well over a decade, Python notebooks revolutionized our field. They gave us so much creative freedom and dramatically lowered the entry barrier for newcomers. Yet despite all this ... it has been a decade! And the notebook is still in roughly the same form factor.
So what if we allow ourselves to rethink notebooks ... really rethink it! What features might we come up with? Can we make the notebook understand datasources? What about LLMs? Can we generate widgets on the fly? What if we make changes to Python itself?
This presentation will be a stream of demos that help paint a picture of what the future might hold. I will share my latest work in the anywidget/marimo ecosystem as well as some new hardware integrations.
The main theme that I will work towards: if you want better notebooks, reactive Python might very well be the future.
Meet Vincent Warmerdam
Vincent is a senior data professional who worked as an engineer, researcher, team lead, and educator in the past. You might know him from tech talks with an attempt to defend common sense over hype in the data space. He is especially interested in understanding algorithmic systems so that one may prevent failure. As such, he has always had a preference to keep calm, and check the dataset before flowing tonnes of tensors. He currently works at marimo, where he spends his time rethinking everything related to Python notebooks.
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