The Sound of Harmonics – Approximating instruments with Fourier Series. Following on the “generating sounds with the notebook” theme from last week, Max Matthe dives deep into harmonics, Fourier series, and other signal processing topics. While he uses a nifty service called Trinket to provide live examples, you can also download the notebooks themselves. (via @dspillustrate).
nteract. Jupyter’s modular architecture allows people to treat each component as a building block. So, people did: nteract is an alternative front end to Jupyter that still uses the ipynb format, notebook protocol, and kernel infrastructure, but replaces the front-end Notebook with a beautifully designed desktop app. Safia Abdalla (@captainsafia), one of the core contributors, has a nice writeup about its features and what they’re trying to accomplish.