Ufuncs and dtypes: New possibilities in NumPy :: Sebastian Berg

Sebastian Berg, a long time NumPy core developer, presents about his work on refactoring NumPy core functionalities, such as universal functions, casting, and dtypes. He discusses what has been accomplished and what new applications are now available.

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0:00 Self-introduction of the the speaker
00:37 Motivation of the work
02:05 NumPy Dtypes: Example UnitDType
04:32 What is a UFunc?
08:42 Let's make a UFunc: The "strided loop"
12:25 Let's make a UFunc: The "Resolver"
15:31 Let's make a UFunc: Wrap it up!
18:42 Done with UFunc!
18:56 How do casts work?
20:26 What makes the UnitDType?
25:42 Summary and acknowledgements
27:24 Q/A session