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…)

Have you ever wondered how htop, vim or other terminal applications work? Do you want to add color, or formatting to the terminal output from your Julia appl... (more…)

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... (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…)

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