The founder of the scientific computing library SciPy discusses how it emerged from a collection of modules shared online in the late 1990s and how the community of users and contributors helped to shape it into what it is today.
An individual explains how they installed Yellow Dog Linux on a cluster of computers with the help of a high school student who modified the kernel to make the hard drive work.
The speaker worked on completing his PhD while also developing an MRI simulation tool using ordinary differential equations (ODEs). He received feedback on his interface and continued to refine his work with the help of others.