Almar Klein @almarklein

Hello friends! 👋 🔥 We’re working on ecosystem recommendations called specs to foster collaboration and shared best practices across the scientific Python ecosystem. 🤝 ⭐ Support this effort by starring: 🔗 github.com/scientific-pyt…

🚨 #EuroSciPy2025 #CfP deadline extended to April 28th! 🚀 We're especially looking for more #Python #talks in: 🧬 Life Sciences & Biomedicine ⚛️ Physical Sciences & Engineering 🌍 Environmental & Earth Sciences 🌌 Interdisciplinary Frontiers pretalx.com/euroscipy-2025… #EuroSciPy

Datoviz is a cross-platform, open-source, high-performance GPU scientific data visualization library designed for interactive exploration of large datasets. Written in C/C++, it leverages Vulkan and integrates with the glfw window library. Learn more: khr.io/1id

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🚀 #EuroSciPy 2025: Call for Proposals is Open! 🚀 Got a #Python-powered scientific tool, library, or project? Want to share your work with the #scientificPython community? Submit your talk for #EuroSciPy2025! 👉 Submit Today! buff.ly/ADCn7NH 📅 Deadline: 31 of March #CFP

🚀 Save the Date: #EuroSciPy2025 is Coming! 📅 Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details soon! 📍 Where: Kraków, Poland 📆 When: 18–22 of August 🌍 Why: European conference for scientific computing in #Python!

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Announcing - WebGPU Puzzles: Learn GPU Programming in Your Browser It's a web app that let’s you practice writing GPU compute kernels using WebGPU - runs 100% in the browser, locally on your GPU (even tiny integrated laptop GPUs).

@almarklein will be giving a talk in our maintainers' track. For tickets and more information, click on the link below: euroscipy.org/2024/tickets.h… #Maintainers #OpenGL #WebGPU #EuroSciPy24 #Scientific #Python

Planning to join us in Szczecin? Remember to grab your ticket: euroscipy.org/2024/tickets.h… (and take advantage of the early bird price!)

Were you planning a proposal and ran our of time? We've decided to extend the deadline a week! The proposal submission portal will work through Sunday, June 9th at midnight. #Conference #Proposals #Science #Python #Europe #EuroSciPy #Szczecin #Poland

Probably the best thing you'll see today. In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world. The results 🧵 1/22

I'm in the top 2% of users on StackOverflow. My content there has been viewed by over 1.7M people. And it's unlikely I'll ever write anything there again. Which may be a much bigger problem than it seems. Because it may be the canary in the mine of our collective knowledge. A canary that signals a change in the airflow of knowledge: from human-human via machine, to human-machine only. Don’t pass human, don’t collect 200 virtual internet points along the way. StackOverflow is *the* repository for programming Q&A. It has 100M users & saves man-years of time & wig-factories-worth of grey hair every single day. It is driven by people like me who ask questions that other developers answer. Or vice-versa. Over 10 years I've asked 217 questions & answered 77. Those questions have been read by millions of developers & had tens of millions of views. But since GPT4 it looks less & less likely any of that will happen; at least for me. Which will be bad for StackOverflow. But if I'm representative of other knowledge-workers then it presents a larger & more alarming problem for us as humans. What happens when we stop pooling our knowledge with each other & instead pour it straight into The Machine? Where will our libraries be? How can we avoid total dependency on The Machine? What content do we even feed the next version of The Machine to train on? When it comes time to train GPTx it risks drinking from a dry riverbed. Because programmers won't be asking many questions on StackOverflow. GPT4 will have answered them in private. So while GPT4 was trained on all of the questions asked before 2021 what will GPT6 train on? This raises a more profound question. If this pattern replicates elsewhere & the direction of our collective knowledge alters from outward to humanity to inward into the machine then we are dependent on it in a way that supercedes all of our prior machine-dependencies. Whether or not it "wants" to take over, the change in the nature of where information goes will mean that it takes over by default. Like a fast-growing Covid variant, AI will become the dominant source of knowledge simply by virtue of growth. If we take the example of StackOverflow, that pool of human knowledge that used to belong to us - may be reduced down to a mere weighting inside the transformer. Or, perhaps even more alarmingly, if we trust that the current GPT doesn't learn from its inputs, it may be lost altogether. Because if it doesn't remember what we talk about & we don't share it then where does the knowledge even go? We already have an irreversible dependency on machines to store our knowledge. But at least we control it. We can extract it, duplicate it, go & store it in a vault in the Arctic (as Github has done). So what happens next? I don't know, I only have questions. None of which you'll find on StackOverflow. (I write on AI from a technical and product perspective. If you find that interesting then please do follow me for more)

I've been working on pygfx, a Python graphics library based on WebGPU. I (finally) wrote a post on it's background almarklein.org/wgpu.html #python #viz

@asmeurer Most Dutch people would call them "rondjes", and "rounds" might indeed be an (awkward) translation of that.

@chklovskii @FlatironCCN @kushalkolar @agiovann76 We will not just discuss caiman, but also the amazing tools -- fastplotlib and mesmerize -- that have been developed by @kushalkolar to leverage GPU/pandas for analysis in notebooks. If you haven't seen fastplotlib yet, it is 🤯. github.com/kushalkolar/fa…

This should be our slogan: It be a great tool fer any pirate lookin' to make their own graphics applications, whether it be fer makin' yer own maps or just for showin' off yer treasure. Arrr!

All the cool kids talk about ChatGPT, so I decided to have a go:

I made TimeTagger open source and gave it a web API, so people could build creative solutions with it. Like this hardware project to start/stop logging time :) tiktok.com/@pixeledi/vide…

@ivoflipse5 @mr_le_fox omg!