Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. — Thomas Fuller

Stumbled to an entire book that is written using IPython Notebook. Wow!! Gone are the days when one had to read through static documents to learn something. Now with this kind of stuff, reading a book and executing the code that goes with the chapters of the book can be done very easily. Link : Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers

I have not been tracking many developments in the Python world for various reasons. Recently I stumbled on to this book and learnt that a ton of things have happened since the last version of my IPython installation. In the last one year or so, it has found a very strong community of pythonistas and is being used by professors in their classrooms. ipynb is turning out to be a format for submitting programming assignments.

If you interview some of the brightest minds in the world and get to know about their productivity hacks (sometimes their role model’s hacks), and compile all of their ideas in to a format that is easily digestible, you get this book. Nothing in this book is really something that one would not have come across. But it is easy to forget hacks that make our lives productive. Sometimes reading other’s work habits can create awareness of the way we go about doing our work.