I have written this post for developers in the Common Lisp community who asked why I am switching to Julia. It may only be relevant for the small set of people who use Common Lisp for scientific computing. (more…)

The Julia Language Docs have a great page on performance tips.  It's worth a read, but the writing is aimed more towards a computer scientist than a data scientist. Here we'll cover some easy performance wins. We find the best way to code in Julia is to:... (more…)

Sign up for JuliaCon: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/juliacon-2020-registration-79192116753 Buy a JuliaCon shirt or stickers: https://discourse.julialang.org/t... (more…)

Julia 1.9.0 has been released this week. This release was much waited for as it brings many significant improvements. You can find a summary of most important changes in the Julia 1.9 Highlights post. (more…)

Julia has a div function that is used to implement floor division (fld) and ceil division (cld). I think I’ve found a bug that causes all of these division functions to return incorrect results. Fl... (more…)