It is comical that today’s XKCD deals with bloated Python installations. I am in the midst of torching my old installation(s), which no longer seems to work.

I have previously advocated using Eclipse and PyDev as a Python development environment. But, as Java/Python/Eclipse updated and screwed up my workflow for the billionth time, I’m fed up with it. I’m switching to the Anaconda environment. It’s supposed to be good for data science related tasks, and seems to have an interface similar to RStudio. I’ve already learned that it’s important to install this environment locally instead of “for all users”, as it’s terrible at handling admin permissions.

Academic Minutiae will be my new Monday post series until I get bored of it. I’m sure there are an infinite amount of administrative or tedious tasks I can joke/complain about.