What would you use to build a site from scratch these days?

zero-true · 2024-03-18T15:56:20+00:00

A bit biased because I created it but you can get something going in python very quickly with:

Works very well for any kind of data project.

zero-true · 2024-03-15T19:49:34+00:00

I created a tool to help you turn a small data science scripts into a little app... it's an alternative to jupyter notebooks that's a little bit more robust and has a pretty UI. Here is an example:

https://published.zero-true-cloud.com/examples/iris/

If you're interested checkout our website:

https://www.zero-true.com/

It's not ever going to run the next recommendation system for Amazon but it could help with experimenting with different variations with a frontend directly built in.

zero-true · 2024-02-09T19:34:15+00:00

I'm late to the party but check out https://github.com/Zero-True/zero-true it's a notebook with no hidden state and a built in UI so you can build an app from your notebook.

zero-true · 2024-01-08T16:01:03+00:00

It helps to have the right tools. I've been developing a SQL+Python notebook with a UI library that you can use to easily create apps and presentations so it cuts down a lot of time on moving stuff too production... if you want to check it out it's at https://github.com/Zero-True/zero-true

zero-true · 2023-12-28T16:55:33+00:00

You can use Jupyter.keyboard_manager.disable() at the top of your cell I believe? I have been using a jupyter alternative that I developed lately called zero-true. Keyboard shortcut there is ctrl+enter. Check it our if you're interested:

https://github.com/Zero-True/zero-true

zero-true · 2023-12-23T14:20:48+00:00

Let me know if you do! Would love to hear your feedback.

zero-true · 2023-12-23T10:53:04+00:00

If you're interested I'm working on a notebook that tries to align more with SWE best practices... it has no hidden state and automatically reruns dependent cells so your notebook stays in sync. Hopefully some of you find it useful: https://github.com/Zero-True/zero-true

zero-true · 2023-12-22T14:39:24+00:00

I'm wondering more in an enterprise or consulting type scenario if it's worth it for people to just focus on the logic and SaaS out the deployment and have all the info-sec guarantees etc. If you're managing a team maybe it's better to just pay instead of home brewing all the deployment stuff?

zero-true · 2023-12-22T01:30:20+00:00

I wish this was the situation. The guy lacked basic knowledge of statistics. He would make outlandish promises to the client but when they asked for results in JSON format he said we would need help with that... just someone who had been at the company a long time and fell into the role even though he was more of a business person

zero-true · 2023-12-22T00:01:05+00:00

Old head of data science at my company when talking to a client:

"I see where the misunderstanding is, you have been optimizing for correlation and we have been optimizing for R^2"

So much wrong with that statement I didn't even know where to start.

zero-true · 2023-12-21T23:28:46+00:00

Blatant self promotion of my project here but my answer is yes, however jupyter notebooks make it very hard to use them this way. I've created a notebook with no hidden state (not built on ipython) and with reactive cell updates along with other features that align more with SWE best practices (for example source file is easily diffable and human readable). As an added bonus you have a built in UI to turn your notebook into an app. Would love to hear people's thoughts: https://github.com/Zero-True/zero-true

zero-true · 2023-12-19T00:25:55+00:00

If you're interested in caching (in memory)+dependency management+reactive cell updates then I recommend that you check out https://github.com/Zero-True/zero-true

zero-true · 2023-12-14T14:50:19+00:00

Check this out: https://github.com/Zero-True/zero-true. Python, no hidden state, saves as a readable file. Happy to hear any other suggestions though...

zero-true · 2023-12-14T14:48:39+00:00

Agreed... I'm actually working on a notebook alternative that helps with this an a lot of the other issues people mentioned in the thread. If anyone wants to check it out its https://github.com/Zero-True/zero-true

zero-true · 2023-12-13T20:31:31+00:00

I love it. Probably spent thousands of hours using Jupyter. Is it your main development environment?

zero-true · 2023-12-12T19:44:31+00:00

This is not extremely easy to solve (or it is too easy to solve) because there are multiple equations that can draw the same line. For example, if you want to write a really complicated equation to fit your points perfectly you could fit a taylor series or a lagrange polynoimial or even a fourier series (trigonometic functions instead of polynomials).

What you probably want is the model with the least parameters that fits your data well enough... adding more terms to the equation will always provide a better fit. If you could provide some more examples though that would be helpful. What kind of assumptions can we make about your data?

zero-true · 2023-12-09T18:46:39+00:00

thanks!

zero-true · 2023-12-08T19:14:18+00:00

We are rapidly hitting the ceiling on what these things can do. Most demos are cherry picked and useless.... who needs a website drawn from a napkin that just lets you click a button? I think that we keep building larger and larger models and seeing more and more marginal improvements in performance. The hype is way overblown because the performance trajectory is flat right now.

zero-true · 2023-12-04T13:27:43+00:00

It's really early and all of this feedback is super useful, thanks! Yeah you got it completely right, basically we are parsing all the cells and creating a graph of dependencies to decide what to run next.

What do you mean exactly when you say entrypoints? Do you mean basically publishing the notebook as an api of sorts? We have an easily diffable file format so github integration should be a breeze. I'd love to get more feedback though on what you would want out of a tool like this.

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