Introduction In October 2019, a paper was published in Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, introducing a new language for bioinformatics called Seq. In it, the authors rightly recognize that the field of bioinformatics is in need of a high-pe…

Relax! Flux is the ML library that doesn’t make you tensor – FluxML/Flux.jl…

Introduction In October 2019, a paper was published in Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, introducing a new language for bioinformatics called Seq. In it, the authors rightly recognize that the field of bioinformatics is in need of a high-pe…

It’s the end of the year again! Here are a few things that happened in 2019. I wrote these in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 too.

Forecasting the Democratic primary This post is inspired by the new FiveThirtyEight primary forecast. It might be tempting to forecast the likely outcome of the primary by looking at the current polls, where they ask people who they would vote for today. …

Improving the user’s experience when using C libraries from Julia by using CBinding.jl to avoid the pain points.

Introduction/Roadmap Last year at JuliaCon, Matt Fishman and I gave a talk about our ongoing effort to port the ITensor code from C++ to Julia. At the time, I mentioned that we had begun trying to integrate a GPU-based tensor contraction backend and were …

Official website for the Julia programming language…

Official website for the Julia programming language…