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NumFOCUS

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NumFOCUS

@NumFOCUS

Our open source scientific software projects are changing the world. We support projects like Pandas, Julia, & NumPy + organize @PyData!

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Joined January 2013

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Ferran Brosa-Planella (@brosaplanella) will be the first to admit it: he wasn't great at coding at first. "It was one of those circular arguments. I wasn't very good at it because I didn't like it, and I didn't like it because I wasn't very good at it." Then he took a postdoc
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Jul 11
Yujian Tang has a hot take on AI — and he's not pulling punches: "AI is nowhere near as good as Twitter wants you to think it is." Text models? Solid. Image generation? Getting there. Video generation? Still rough. Audio? Not quite. His point isn't that AI is overhyped full stop
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Jul 9
Yujian Tang's advice to anyone new to software, data, or AI? Don't take a surface-level approach. "Start diving into how things work as quickly as you can. Once you get to a certain level — go in and just read the code." And when you're stuck: talk to people on forums. Go to live
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Jul 8
Yujian Tang started coding at 13 — not because someone told him to, but because he thought it was cool. That curiosity took him from NumPy and SciPy in college, to Amazon, to Zilliz (the team behind Milvus, one of the first open source vector databases), to working on some of the
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Jul 5
OSS4AI founder Yujian Tang shares a striking data point from a recent San Francisco hackathon: out of 40 projects built in a single afternoon, more than half came from one-person teams — and most of the winners did too. In this clip from NumFOCUS's b.o.s.s. Town Hall, Yujian
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