NumPy & co

This lesson discusses a couple of other useful Python packages that you can use depending on your requirements.

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Beyond NumPy, there are several other Python packages that are worth a look because they address similar yet different class of problems using different technology (compilation, virtual machine, just in time compilation, GPU, compression, etc.). Depending on your specific problem and your hardware, one package may be better than the other.

Let’s illustrate their usage using a very simple example where we want to compute an expression based on two float vectors:

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