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 ...
This year’s EuroSciPy conference will be held in Brussels, August 23-27, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Solbosch Campus). This Euroscipy meeting will be the 5th edition of this cross-disciplinary gathering, focused on the use and development of the Python language in scientific research and industry.
On 28 March, NASA’s Swift satellite observed a flash of gamma rays brighter than anything astronomers had seen before. It soon became evident that the event wasn’t a typical gamma ray burst, an emission of high-energy radiation that often accompanies a supernova explosion. The flash didn’t die ...
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 ...
