I've been more serious about learning Rust recently, after dragging on with passive learning for a while. My first real programming language was Julia, and I know other Julians interested in Rust. I've written this article for those people in mind, becaus... (more…)

Web apps are all the rage because of accessibility. However, there are usually problems with trying to modify some existing software to be a web app: specifically user interface and performance. In order for a web application to perform well, it must be a...

The basics of manipulating and viewing image data with Julia. For full course information, visit https://github.com/mitmath/18S191 Contents 0:00 - Introducti... (more…)

Here's a language that gives near-C performance that feels like Python or Ruby with optional type annotations (that you can feed to one of two static analysis tools) that has good support for macros plus decent-ish support for FP, plus a lot more. What's ... (more…)

In a recent MotherDuck blog post, the author generated 1 billion fake people records using Python in order to analyze the data with DuckDB. I suspect the point of the article was to showcase how awesome duckdb is at handling large amounts of local data, b... (more…)