Project Shackleton: An Open-Source Dashboard for Real-Time Routing With Satellite Imagery
Introduction When standard navigation techniques (i.e. Google Maps) are down and time is of the essence, how does one optimally evacuate from (or position aid to) a hazardous locale? In this post I explore an option called Project Shackleton. In a disaster scenario (be it an earthquake or an invasion) where communications are unreliable, overhead […]
Introducing a New Plugin Mechanism for conda
With the release of version 22.11, the conda team is pleased to announce the implementation of a new conda plugin API! This feature will give contributors more freedom to extend conda’s functionality without needing to merge code into the core codebase. What is a plugin? A “plugin” is a customization or extra feature that is […]
Stable Diffusion: Why Are Diverse Results So Hard to Come By?
By now you’ve probably heard about Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image machine learning (ML) model that generates images based on descriptive textual prompts (for more technical details, refer to its official GitHub repository). I first experimented with Stable Diffusion during a conference. My friends and I were having fun trying to turn our conference […]
Anaconda’s Q4 2022 Open-Source Roundup
Substantial and impactful open-source innovation is at the heart of Anaconda’s efforts to provide tooling for developing and deploying secure Python solutions, faster. With the goal of capturing and communicating our teams’ many ongoing contributions to a wide variety of open-source projects, we are now providing regular roundups of related news items on our blog. […]
The Abilities and Limitations of ChatGPT
Have you ever dreamt of having a friend to chat with at any time, who can answer all your questions; give advice; and help you write, code, and learn? This friend has become a reality in the form of a recently released chatbot: ChatGPT, a brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) dialogue system. This particular friend never […]
Conda Is Fast Now. Like, Really Fast.
New Improvements and Features This 22.11 release of conda brings a suite of new improvements and features that have been highly anticipated by the community. Conda runs faster now—much faster. Here is an abbreviated list of notable changes: The faster conda-libmamba-solver is no longer marked as experimental. Conda package downloads are now parallelized. Conda is […]
Run Jupyter From Your Servers With New Anaconda Notebooks Integration
Empower your data scientists with their preferred tools while governing workflows to your standards. Unleash innovation with a tightly integrated Jupyter…
An Introduction to the Seaborn Objects System
There’s recently been a major update to the Python data science ecosystem. There’s a new data visualization toolkit available: the new Seaborn objects system. It’s still very new, but I’d argue that it’s likely to become one of the best, most user-friendly data visualization toolkits for Python. In this tutorial, I’m going to give you […]
Unplugging in a Remote World
All around the globe, we’re experiencing the lasting impacts of Covid-19 on our personal and professional lives. Making small talk, attending social gatherings, traveling, going to restaurants, and, of course, working, are just some of the behaviors that seem to have permanently changed. With regard to the latter, many of us have shifted to a […]
PyScript Updates: Bytecode Alliance, Pyodide, and MicroPython
Earlier this year we unveiled PyScript to enable users to create Python applications in the browser. In order for PyScript to succeed, we at Anaconda must make strategic investments in both the project itself and its core technology dependencies, such as WebAssembly (Wasm) and the fantastic Pyodide open-source project (PyScript’s primary runtime). To that end, […]