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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 […]

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, […]

Anaconda Partners with NumFOCUS and Bitergia to Bring Community Metrics to Open-Source Projects

New community-driven metrics and dashboards make project health and security transparent, driving safer, more engaged project adoption. We’re pleased to share a new partnership between NumFOCUS and Bitergia, a comprehensive software analytics platform, that will bring community-driven metrics to open-source projects supported by NumFOCUS. As a financial backer of NumFOCUS and this partnership, Anaconda believes […]