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…)

Materials for MIT 6.S083 / 18.S190: Computational thinking with Julia + application to the COVID-19 pandemic - mitmath/6S083... (more…)

julia - The Julia Language: A fresh approach to technical computing. (more…)

I recently gave a Why Julia? talk to a roomful of computational fluid dynamicists and astrophysicists. (http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/transturb17/gibson/, Kavli Institute, UCSB 2017-02-02). I got two main skeptical responses. One Python expert in ... (more…)

In Julia, Can I do DF1[B] = DF2[B] where B is a boolean array and DF1 and DF2 are DataFrames? Well, yes! You can by using Julia's multiple-dispatch system by... (more…)