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. ... (more…)

Let me take a bit of time here to write out a complete canonical answer to ModelingToolkit and how it relates to Modia and Modelica. This question comes up a lot: why does ModelingToolkit exist instead of building on tooling for Modelica compilers? I'll s... (more…)

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11155-mathematical_diseases_in_climate_models_and_how_to_cure_them Making climate predictions is extremely difficult because clim... (more…)

Seven years ago, four individuals came together to create a fast and expressive programming language to compete with the likes of R, Matlab, Python and about three dozen other dynamic tools. Their work gave birth to the Julia programming language. Anthony...

Series of Julia basics: What is multiple dispatch? Explanation on how to use it and why it is powerful. (more…)