Nearly 300 students join an open course that applies data science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical modeling using the Julia language to study Covid-19. (more…)

If you have a large collection of data and have to do similar computations on each element, data parallelism is an easy way to speedup computation using multiple CPUs and machines as well as GPU(s). While this is not the only kind of parallelism, it cover... (more…)

Erich Grunewald's blog: Texts on philosophy, poetry, literature, history, altruism, science, programming and music. (more…)

Julia is a new language. It’s simple to learn, and extremely fast. (Almost as fast as C.) Many people believe that Julia will become a dominant programming language, especially for machine learning… (more…)

In 2019, during the month of November, I picked up Julia while looking through the available languages on Exercism. I wrote an article… (more…)