Julia motivation: why weren’t Numpy, Scipy, Numba, good enough?

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 … Read more

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How my Julia coding style changed

The recent redesign of DynamicHMC.jl provides an opportunity to reflect on how my Julia coding style changed. I started this package two years ago, and did not do any major refactoring after it became usable, mostly because I did not have a good comprehen... (more…)

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