Lukas Heumos
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Lukas Heumos
@lukasheumos.bsky.social
Research software engineer at Lamin Labs | Steering council at scverse | Postdoc at Fabian Theis lab
"Usability besides performance is also key."

Cannot stress this enough. There's a ton of methods out there that might not even be the best but are used because a substantial amount of time was invested into making it fast, accessible, and documented. Such methods are benchmarked in real use cases
October 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I see where you're coming from but what is your opinion on scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0... then? I find it valuable that the pydata ecosystem moves together.
SPEC 0 — Minimum Supported Dependencies
Description# This SPEC recommends that all projects across the Scientific Python ecosystem adopt a common time-based policy for dropping dependencies. From the perspective of this SPEC, the dependenci...
scientific-python.org
September 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM