#501: Marimo - Reactive Notebooks for Python

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever spent an afternoon wrestling with a Jupyter notebook, hoping that you ran the cells in just the right order, only to realize your outputs were completely out of sync? Today's guest has a fresh take on solving that exact problem. Akshay Agrawal is here to introduce Marimo, a reactive Python notebook that ensures your code and outputs always stay in lockstep. And that's just the start! We'll also dig into Akshay's background at Google Brain and Stanford, what it's like to work on the cutting edge of AI, and how Marimo is uniting the best of data science exploration and real software engineering.

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0:00.0	Have you ever spent an afternoon wrestling with a Jupiter notebook hoping that you ran all the
0:04.1	cells in just the right order, only to realize your outputs were completely out of sync?
0:08.7	Today's guest has a fresh take on solving that exact problem.
0:12.3	Akshay Agrawal is here to introduce Marimo, a reactive Python notebook that ensures your code
0:18.3	and outputs always stay in lockstep.
0:20.6	And that's just the start.
0:21.9	We'll also dig into actually its background at Google Brain and Stanford,
0:26.0	what it's like to work on cutting edge AI,
0:28.2	and how Marimo is uniting the best of data science exploration
0:31.2	and real software engineering.
0:33.5	This is Talk Python, and Me.
0:34.7	Episode 501 recorded Thursday, February 27th, 2025.
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0:48.4	And this segment was made with Python.
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