My understanding at the time was a lot of big companies still weren't porting to Python 3 so there was no choice but for their developers and users to keep using 2. Apparently that is still the case 
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Love when big companies like Facebook and Google claim to "
open source" (as Google's GH org claims) by unceremoniously dumping projects on GitHub and not maintaining it.
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I mean this code is brand new, claiming to be cutting edge.

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Just looked and it's not even packaged correctly. I had the same problem recently with some NVIDIA code on GH, also to do with machine learning for some reason. Huh. Good thing I'm about to teach a workshop to ML researchers on how to do that because apparently...
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Whenever I and another person in my lab get stuck on something I always make the joke "well you know it's not like you need 2 PhDs to get his working..."

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At least I do have this working.

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Huh I don't have that emoji yet apparently

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It's a little face surrounded by hearts.
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I’m more intrigued by your use of ‘dead ass’. I thought that was solely a NY thing. Do people in ur area use it too?
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What is London if not bizarro NY?
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This is part of the reason I aborted learning Python. I learned 2 for
@psiturk but Macs come bundled with 3, so I had to download Anaconda and set up my own environment in 2.7, run that every time. That part was fine, but then finding help pages that didn't insult 2 or 3 was hard -
TBF the Python that comes on OSX (2 or 3) has always been discouraged from general use since it's used by some system programs. It's always been necessary to install a 3rd party Python on OSX to really use it. Apple has a terrible track record of supporting non-Apple dev tools
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Dev'ing on a Mac is pain.
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Good points. I’m pretty lazy so there’s that! So what is recommended? I thought Anaconda was fine. It was just a pain to learn 2 and 3 at the same time. The differences are subtle but for a Python newbie it was annoying
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Absolutely. Especially ~3-10 years ago when lots of teaching material was still py2 and lots of important packages hadn't ported yet. New code *still* using py2 doesn't. Help. With rare exception there's no reason to use but the latest version (3.7) and anaconda is still decent
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Something a lot of beginners with it get tripped up on is just path issues mostly. When you install Anaconda it gives you the option to add it to your PATH, and it actually edits your .profile to do so.
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I see a lot of Mac users get confused by this bc they often have multiple Python installations on their systems (the one included on the OS which is all but unusable, Anaconda, often Homebrew). So it helps to be clear about it. If you have Homebrew already it works well too
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Yeah that was tricky but I figured it out eventually! Thanks for the tips!!
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