I Like Notebooks

Why HN readers recommended it

Whenever notebooks get criticized, HN commenters point to it as the standard rebuttal from a prominent practitioner.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Jeremy Howard

Topic

jupyter notebooks in software development

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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

• I strongly recommend Jeremy Howard's (founder of fast.ai) recent talk - "I Like Notebooks" ( [VIDEO] ). He addresses some of the concerns/critiques about jupyter notebooks.

• That video cannot be seen without watching Jeremy Howard's rebuttal: I Like Notebooks. I also believe this was the video that got him kicked out of a conference(?) because it was too confrontational? Which was just ugly for a guy who clearly loves being an …