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Scientists map the “current” of mountain lions moving between mountain ranges. Blue shows areas of low current density, which are expected to have low densities of dispersing mountain lions; yellow designates movement bottlenecks, which are most vulnerable to habitat destruction. Destroying high-flow habitat can isolate populations and endanger their survival ...

Chairman of NumFOCUS’ Board of Director’s,Travis Oliphant, spoke at the March meeting of Tokyo SciPy via live webcast.  Topics he covered included the history of SciPy, where NumPy should go next, and Numba.  Questions were asked regarding sparse matrix integration with NumPy, and packaging.

Tokyo SciPy member, Syoyo ...