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... (more…)

By day, Julia worked at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups. But two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the pic... (more…)

These are the JuliaCon hackathon results for SciML compile time issues, with major help from @tim.holy (and more to be announced soon…). This is a repost of 22 seconds to 3 and now more: Let's fix all of the DifferentialEquations.jl + universe compile tim... (more…)

This isn’t about understanding everything about TCP or reading through TCP/IP Illustrated. It’s about how a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential. Here’s why. When I was at the Recurse Center, I wrote a TCP stack in Python (and wrote about what happens... (more…)

Recently, I was teaching my kids how to compute gcd(Greatest Common Divisor). Instead of just teaching the mechanics of calculation, I wanted to show them some interesting properties of gcd. (more…)