How to Restore Anaconda after Update to MacOS Catalina

MacOS Catalina was released on October 7, 2019, and has been causing quite a stir for Anaconda users. Apple has decided that Anaconda’s default install location in the root folder is not allowed. It moves that folder into a folder on your desktop called “Relocated Items,” in the Security folder. If you’ve used the .pkg […]

4 Machine Learning Use Cases in the Automotive Sector

From parts suppliers to vehicle manufacturers, service providers to rental car companies, the automotive and related mobility industries stand to gain significantly from implementing machine learning at scale. We see the big automakers investing in proof-of-concept projects at various stages, while disruptors in the field of autonomous driving are trying to build entirely new businesses […]

What’s in a Name? Clarifying the Anaconda Metapackage

The name “Anaconda” is overloaded in many ways. There’s our company, Anaconda, Inc., the Anaconda Distribution, the anaconda metapackage, Anaconda Enterprise, and several other, sometimes completely unrelated projects (like Red Hat’s Anaconda). Here we hope to clarify two of those – the difference between the Anaconda Distribution and the anaconda metapackage.  The Anaconda Distribution is […]

Why We Removed the “Free” Channel in Conda 4.7

One of the changes we made in Conda 4.7 was the removal of a software collection called “free” from the default channel configuration. The “free” channel is our collection of packages prior to the switch in recipes/compilers that we did for the Anaconda Distribution 5.0 release. The current primary channel, “main,” is also totally free […]

Conda 4.6 Release

The latest set of major Conda improvements are here, with version 4.6. This release has been stewing for a while and has the feature list to show for it. Let’s walk through some of the major ones. Activation script initialization Conda 4.4 introduced new scripts that make activation behavior uniform across operating systems. Where you […]