Huge episode today with iconic Dr. Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, the standard libraries for numeric operations (downloaded 8 million and 3 million times PER DAY, respectively). Hear about the future of open-source, including the impact of GenAI.

More on Travis:

• Founded Anaconda, Inc., the company behind the also-ubiquitous Python package manager.

• Founded the massive PyData conferences and communities as well as its associated non-profit foundation, NumFOCUS.

• Currently serves as the CEO of two firms: OpenTeams and Quansight.

• Holds a PhD in biomedical engineering from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

Today’s episode will primarily be of interest to hands-on practitioners like data scientists, software developers and machine learning engineers.

In it, Travis details:

• How his journey creating open-source software began and how NumPy and SciPy grew to become the most popular foundational Python libraries for working with data.

• How he identifies commercial opportunities to support his vast open-source efforts and communities.

• How AI, particularly generative AI, is transforming open-source development.

• Where open-source innovation is headed in the years to come.

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