Friday, November 29, 2013

IPython notebooks: does beautiful code work?

I am still not fully converted over to the notion of using IPython notebooks to arrange my calculations (for one, I find the inline rendering of matplotlib figures is stultifying). But it does make it easy to share calculations and code with colleagues who may not be Python-versed. Here is an example of a recent notebook where the energy levels of the positronium atom are calculated.