2 items tagged “jupyter”

Sunday, 8 February 2026

essay Ask where the numbers came from before charting them

An assistant's first analysis of chemical engineering employment came with data it had made up, so I pulled the real series from the BLS and Census sources myself, and that took the evening. [read]

2026-02-08 / AI / series Tested on real work / working-with-an-assistant, public-data, jupyter

Sunday, 16 November 2025

essay Colab, Jupyter or VS Code, and which one for which job

What a notebook, a cell, a kernel and a virtual environment are, for an engineer who has never programmed, and what I ended up using Colab, Jupyter and VS Code for. [read]

2025-11-16 / AI / series From zero / python, jupyter, colab, vs-code