Question: I read a lot on the Internet about this programming language called Julia being very fast, but I’m very skeptic. What do you say? Answer: It’s good to be skeptic, but you can try yourself! Q: Some time ago I actually tried and I found it to be v…
Read more »A few days ago I was bored. The only good cure I know of boredom is smashing things together to see if they can work together. This incidentally is also why I love Julia, composability is a stated primary goal. I’ve smashed julia packages together before,…
Read more »This survey of features of the Julia programming language is the first lecture in a short 6-session course on process and concepts needed to participate in o…
Read more »No single Automatic Differentiation (AD) system is the optimal choice for all problems. This means informed selection of an AD system and combinations can be a problem-specific variable that can greatly impact performance. In the Julia programming languag…
Read more »A follow up video looking at improvements to 5 programming language solutions (Julia, Ruby, Raku [Perl 6], Fortran, Nim) to one problem.Original Video: https…
Read more »No single Automatic Differentiation (AD) system is the optimal choice for all problems. This means informed selection of an AD system and combinations can be a problem-specific variable that can greatly impact performance. In the Julia programming languag…
Read more »Increasing emphasis on data and quantitative methods in the biomedical sciences is making biological research more computational. Collecting, curating, processing, and analysing large genomic and imaging data sets poses major computational challenges, as …
Read more »This is a follow-up to #39129. The current state of the PR is that by default, everything works as normal, except during the build we generate both libjulia-internal (which does not link against LL…
Read more »Today I want to preview a feature that will be introduced in 1.3 release of DataFrames.jl. We will talk about new ways of updating the columns of a data frame, when one is working with views. My objective is to explain the rationale behind the new functio…
Read more »One of the most annoying tasks for me is debugging code on Windows. I have been using Linux as my primary system for a long time now, and no of my customary tools (most notably rr) work or work reliably.
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