The Future of NumPy Indexing.

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NumPy advanced indexing proves powerful but inconsistent: a lookup-table image example yields 200 times faster execution via fancy indexing, yet multi‑dimensional rules produce surprising shape results and a long history of exceptions. The community produces a NEP to implement an intuitive and fully featured advanced indexing, a canonical Python mockup and a C implementation appeared quickly, and a proposal adds three indexers (PR 6075 adding orthogonal/vectorized/legacy behaviors) but broader adoption and reconciliation with other libraries remain unfinished.

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1. 0:00NumPy indexing challenges
2. 7:29Fancy indexing
3. 14:22NumPy indexing by dimension
4. 26:463D array indexing chaos
5. 33:31Fixes for NumPy indexing
6. 35:20Q&A

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