Congrats to all involved. A great achievement, and I mean both the experiment and the Python team(s).
Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises About: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/p/about-vasudev-ram.html ActiveState Code recipes: https://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351 On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:11 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > On 13.02.2016 23:59, Khaled Monsoor wrote: > > hello everyone in this wonderful community, > > > > probably, we already know about the recent confirmation by LIGO > > <http://www.ligo.org/> about existence of "gravitational waves", a major > > prediction by the "theory of relativity" by Albert Einstein. It is a huge > > milestone to human endeavour to understand nature. > > > > what we may or may not know that Python was the de-facto language of > > software components of the experimentation. It was extensively used in > > day-to-day operations, from orchestrating the instruments[1], gathering > > data, analytics, to generating the finally published pretty graphs[2]. > > Usage of Python, IPython notebook & matplotlib was extensive among the > > team-members of LIGO.[3], [4] > > > > i am not a part of LIGO, or any of the member organisations. > > Rather, as a common enthusiast of natural-sciences as well as a > open-source > > believer, I would like to take a moment to thank every single contributor > > of Python. Please keep up pushing your commits. > > We facilitated something bigger than us. > > Thank you for sharing this information with us. This is really > exciting :-) > > I took the liberty to use these great news as part of > our EuroPython 2016 launch announcement yesterday (which I'll > post here as well). > > > i would also like to take a moment to remember our lost friend, John D. > > Hunter, the creator of matplotlib. Whom we lost in 2012 in a battle with > > cancer. Dear John, you are long gone, but you will live generations > through > > 2-D matplotlib plots. > > > > > > Thanks everyone. > > > > Khaled Monsoor, > > a common user of Python > > > > > > refs: > > [1]: > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/45g8qu/we_are_the_ligo_scientific_collaboration_and_we/czxnlux > > [2]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca8jlVIWcAUmeP8.png > > [3]: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html > > [4]: https://github.com/ligo-cbc > > -- > Marc-Andre Lemburg > eGenix.com > > Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Feb 16 2016) > >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ > >>> Python Database Interfaces ... http://products.egenix.com/ > >>> Plone/Zope Database Interfaces ... http://zope.egenix.com/ > ________________________________________________________________________ > 2016-01-19: Released eGenix pyOpenSSL 0.13.13 ... http://egenix.com/go86 > > ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: > > eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 > D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg > Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 > http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ > http://www.malemburg.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Community mailing list > PSF-Community@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community >
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