The First Notebook War

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A public spat claims notebooks break basic software engineering—modularity and code reuse—while proponents show concrete fixes: JupyterLab as an IDE, Jupytext to pair scripts and notebooks, Binder and Google Colab to launch reproducible environments (Colab offering free GPUs), nb­dime for notebook diffs, and R Markdown as a plain‑text alternative friendly to version control. The argument produces tooling, examples of pipelines and paired script workflows, and no clear winner—practice and tooling decide.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:31Origin of the war
3. 5:04What are Jupyter Notebooks
4. 6:32Criticism of Jupyter
5. 9:01JupyterLab advantages
6. 10:48R Markdown alternative
7. 11:52Why use notebooks
8. 13:20Notebook tools and platforms
9. 15:53Working with scripts
10. 16:37Better Python modules
11. 19:54Project structure and deployment
12. 20:56Q&A

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