Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

[Roel Janssen]

On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 10:21 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Guix!
> 
> I’m happy to announce the first release of Guix-Jupyter!
> 
>   
> https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2019/10/towards-reproducible-jupyter-notebooks/
> 
> Guix-Jupyter is a Jupyter “kernel” that is able to interpret
> annotations
> describing the environment in which notebook cells will be executed.
> The end goal is to be able to regard notebooks as pure functions.
> 
> The code is here:
> 
>   https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-kernel
> 
> I presented it minutes ago at JCAD, a conference gathering French HPC
> practitioners, and where many talks happen to talk about Jupyter.  :-
> )
> 
>   https://jcad2019.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/6
> 
> Feedback welcome!
> 
> Ludo’.

The animated GIFs are really useful!  If I understand this correctly,
the Guix Jupyter kernel allows one to use multiple (completely
distinct) environments in a single Notebook.  So, mix Python, R and
Scheme in a single notebook.  That's pretty neat!

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen