As I have recently written in this post the Julia for Data Analysis book that I am preparing is already available in MEAP preview. Manning is releasing its chapters sequentially (approximately one chapter per several weeks). I thought that when some chapt... (more…)

Julia has been around since 2012 and after more than six years of development, its 1.0 version has been finally released. This is a major milestone and one that has inspired me to write a new blogpost... (more…)

The Julia developers are pleased to annouce the release of Julia v1.4.0, the fourth minor release in the 1.x series. Binaries are available for all of your favorite platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD) at https://julialang.org/downloads. As a m... (more…)

In a previous post, I discussed using type domain information to speed up generation of random density matrices with small dimension in Julia. There, we gave the Julia compiler knowledge of the dimension of the matrices at the time it generates code, inst... (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... (more…)