numpy is one idea executed ruthlessly: a typed, contiguous block of memory plus enough metadata to reinterpret it without copying. everything else — broadcasting, views, vectorised speed — falls out of that design. learn the memory model and the api stops being a list of functions and becomes a handful of consequences. 𐃏 all timings and outputs on this page are real (python 3, numpy 2.4, apple m-series).
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