[HN Gopher] NumPy 2.0
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       NumPy 2.0
        
       Author : scoresmoke
       Score  : 87 points
       Date   : 2024-06-16 19:32 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | ck45 wrote:
       | Here's a link to the release notes:
       | https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html
        
         | chmaynard wrote:
         | This is a draft. No release notes yet.
        
         | Kortaggio wrote:
         | Duplicate HN thread:
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700259
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Changed to that from https://pypi.org/project/numpy/ above.
         | Thanks!
        
       | fbdab103 wrote:
       | Any notable highlights for a consumer of Numpy who rarely
       | interfaces directly with it? Most of my work is pandas+scipy,
       | with occasionally dropping into the specific numpy algorithm when
       | required.
       | 
       | I am much more of an "upgrade when there is a X.1" release kind
       | of guy, so my hat off to those who will bravely be testing the
       | version on my behalf.
        
         | scoresmoke wrote:
         | The most important changes are deprecations of certain public
         | APIs:
         | https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html#deprecati...
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         | One new interesting feature, though, is the support for string
         | routines:
         | https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/routines.strings.html#mo...
        
           | amelius wrote:
           | > One new interesting feature, though, is the support for
           | string routines
           | 
           | Sounds almost like they're building a language inside a
           | language.
        
             | ssahoo wrote:
             | No. Native python ops in string suck in performance. String
             | support is absolutely interesting and will enable
             | abstractions for many NLP and LLM use cases without writing
             | native C extensions.
        
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