[Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

2017-09-04 Thread Wes Turner
On Monday, September 4, 2017, kirby urner > wrote: > > >> Maybe a bit OT: >> >> > OT: "off topic" or "over the top"? :-D > Off topic > > I've wondered whether we could/should instead start mathematics education >>

Re: [Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

2017-09-04 Thread kirby urner
> > Maybe a bit OT: > > OT: "off topic" or "over the top"? :-D I've wondered whether we could/should instead start mathematics education > with bits as entropy (information theory first)?: > > That's an interesting suggestion. When everything seems impenetrable / indecipherable, we're in a

Re: [Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

2017-09-04 Thread Wes Turner
+1 for defining multiplication as a tensor product. I made it though more than 15 years of school before I learned that matrix multiplication is actually the tensor product (with broadcasting): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_product The Theano docs explain tensors and tensor broadcasting:

Re: [Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

2017-09-04 Thread Wes Turner
Re: dimensional analysis and units - pint does units: https://github.com/hgrecco/pint https://github.com/hgrecco/pint/blob/master/pint/default_en.txt - CSVW can handle units (with QUDT URIs) - {CSV, JSON,} don't include support for datatypes or units - ( Spreadsheet tools should handle

Re: [Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

2017-09-04 Thread Wes Turner
On Monday, September 4, 2017, kirby urner wrote: > PS: > > my recent exercises in teaching math with Python, ala Peter Farrell, is > sparking some heated debate on math-teach. > > http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2876811 (especially in > recent days, early

Re: [Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

2017-09-04 Thread kirby urner
PS: my recent exercises in teaching math with Python, ala Peter Farrell, is sparking some heated debate on math-teach. http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=2876811 (especially in recent days, early September 2017) Bob Hansen is trashing this writing as some of the worst pedagogy he's

Re: [Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

2017-09-03 Thread kirby urner
On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Charles Cossé wrote: > Hi Kirby, > Thanks for sharing that. Why do you call the GitHub repo "Python5"? > -Charles > > Greetings Charles. Back when I was working for O'Reilly School of Tech, since closed, we taught Python courses 1-4. There was

Re: [Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

2017-09-02 Thread Charles Cossé
Hi Kirby, Thanks for sharing that. Why do you call the GitHub repo "Python5"? -Charles On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 4:03 PM, kirby urner wrote: > > Sorry: > > https://github.com/4dsolutions/Python5/blob/master/Introduction.ipynb > > the previous one got away. > > I confess to

Re: [Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

2017-09-02 Thread kirby urner
Sorry: https://github.com/4dsolutions/Python5/blob/master/Introduction.ipynb the previous one got away. I confess to recycling some of my old materials, updating as I go. What's new is the state of the art has continued to improve, thanks to the hard work of many contributors. Kirby

[Edu-sig] some new open source Python writing (Jupyter Notebooks)

2017-09-02 Thread kirby urner
___ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig