Asked on Twitter why a paper is coming out now, 15 years after NumPy's creation, Stefan van der Walt of the University of California at Berkeley's Institute for Data Science, one of the article's ...

Not necessarily for the data-science and machine-learning communities built around Python extensions like NumPy and SciPy, but as a general programming language.

With Python and NumPy getting lots of exposure lately, I'll show how to use those tools to build a simple feed-forward neural network. Over the past few months, the use of the Python programming ...