Interesting Developments in the Numerical Python World

From Travis Oliphant by way of the Planet Scipy feed:

Hello all,

There is a lot happening in my life right now and I am spread quite thin among the various projects that I take an interest in. In particular, I am thrilled to publicly announce on this list that Continuum Analytics has received DARPA funding (to the tune of at least $3 million) for Blaze, Numba, and Bokeh which we are writing to take NumPy, SciPy, and visualization into the domain of very large data sets. This is part of the XDATA program, and I will be taking an active role in it. You can read more about Blaze here: http://blaze.pydata.org. You can read more about XDATA here: http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/XDATA.aspx

I personally think Blaze is the future of array-oriented computing in Python...

Passing the torch of NumPy and moving on to Blaze