They also have an article about it: <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the-code-1.16261" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the...</a><p>I love the reproducible science movement and iPython is perfect for that. Glad to see Nature talking about it.
Kyle (lambdaops) did the architecture: <a href="http://lambdaops.com/ipythonjupyter-tmpnb-debuts" rel="nofollow">http://lambdaops.com/ipythonjupyter-tmpnb-debuts</a><p>It's a pretty amazing story about brining full instant on scientific notebooks to everyone.<p>It's running on the High Memory OnMetal instances here at Rackspace. Each container gets 512mb of ram.
Fantastic to see!!<p>As much as I hope things like this will be a tipping point for python in the scientific community (from a major player to the dominant player), monoculture hurts everyone. Fortunately, one of the great things about ipython/jupyter is that it's designed to be language independent.<p>I'm sure a lot of folks here are already aware of this, but just in case you're not: There are Julia, R, Haskell, Ruby, and who-knows-what-else kernels for ipython/jupyter.<p>I know the basic idea has been around for a long time (e.g. Mathematica), but ipython really is an incredibly well-done and flexible execution of the idea.
IPython needs to be called Jupyter asap or else everyone would think this is a Python only application which happily as an R guy it is not.<p>Love that there are so many "good" open source options in the ecco-system and people will not only show the work BUT also include the cleaning and tidying up of the data which is equally important in my opinion.
It’s great to see IPython here. I think Mathematica is missing a huge opportunity in this area by being proprietary and by not providing a JavaScript implementation of the CDF player.
The biggest strength of the IPython Notebook interface is in communicating computational thinking.<p>With computational thinking I mean any subject matter where the way of arriving at the results is at least as important as the results themselves.<p>With IPython Notebook, you can perform live demos (e.g. live_reveal extension), communicate with your future self or collaborators and even peer reviewers.
I see this: "It looks like we're full up. Every single IPython Notebook is in use right now! Try again later and maybe you'll have better luck. Sorry for the inconvenience!"<p>Can someone tell me something about the notebook? I want to decide if this is something I should bookmark, and visit at a later date.
A little nitpicking, I change x^2 to x<i>sin(x), then to x</i>Math.sin(x), then x*math.sin(x) to no avail. In wxmaxima you just have an iterative notebook and you have available a lot of symbolic and numeric computations with no fuss. Also you can create section, subsections, convert to pdf and html, save in xml, and much more. What is missing in wxmaxima is a tool to use your mouse in a much more dynamic way.