On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Kirby Urner <kur...@oreillyschool.com>wrote:
<< snip >> > We're on the same page as the Mathematica people here, and I don't think > we should worry about any winner-take-all, king-of-the-hill story here. > IPython Notebook has a Mathematica flavor and that's fine, so does Sage. > We're in a synergy relationship. > > That's especially true in the space of my workplace, where a lot of the > brain cycles have been committed to Hilbert, software that brings in > Mathematica over the server to a browser-based client. Others of us teach > Python and other executable notations. Per your integrating vision, it's > all one domain. > > http://www.makingmath.com/ (same group as O'Reilly School) > Here's a post worth linking to right at this juncture as it gives a lot of the history of the O'Reilly School endeavor. Written by the spouse, Trish, of the founder, Scott Gray: http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2013/02/with-respect-to-osts-executive-director.html Scott's transformative trip to Russia is talked more about here: http://blog.oreillyschool.com/2010/05/the-story-of-the-oreilly-school-of-technology-part-2.html That's somewhat where my slide show comes in, as I mentioned saying our company is based in Sebastopol **, followed by a pregnant pause before I say "California". Kirby ** *Sevastopol* (pron.: /<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English> ˌ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>s<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> ɛ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>v<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> ə <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>ˈ<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> s <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>t<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> oʊ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>p<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> əl <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>/<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English>or / <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English>s<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> ə <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>ˈ<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> v <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>æ<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> s <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>t<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> ə <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>p<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> oʊ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key>l<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key> / <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English>; previously * Sebastopol*; Ukrainian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language>and Russian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language>: Севасто́поль; Crimean Tatar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatar_language>: *Aqyar*) is one of two cities with special status<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_with_special_status>in Ukraine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine> (the other being the capital, Kiev <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev>), located on the Black Sea<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea>coast of the Crimean Peninsula <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Peninsula>. It has a population of 342,451 (2001).[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol#cite_note-geohive-1>Sevastopol is the second largest port in Ukraine [*dubious <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disputed_statement> – discuss <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sevastopol#Dubious>*], after the Port of Odessa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Odessa>. [Wikipedia] http://ua.pycon.org/
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