I don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

Why HN readers recommended it

It is the go-to funny, irreverent critique of notebooks, linked whenever HN debates notebooks versus testable code.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

O'Reilly

Topic

jupyter notebooks

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

13

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• Here they are - they're definitely irreverent, but I find myself strongly agreeing with everything he says. [LINK] [VIDEO]

• Jupyter notebooks are really abysmal when it comes to best engineering practices. There's an amazing talk called "I don't like notebooks" by Joel Grus at last years JupyterCon [0]. I highly recommend it. [0] [VIDEO]

• If you haven't yet: I think both talks are very worth watching: I don't like notebooks ( [VIDEO] ) by Joel Grus I like notebooks ( [LINK] ) by Jeremy Howard notebooks are a very interesting medium and they have both shortcomings as well as …