Dynamic programming languages face semantic and performance challenges in the presence of features, such as eval, that can inject new code into a running program. The Julia programming language introduces the novel concept of world age to insulate optimiz... (more…)

Introduction It seems each time you turn around there is a new programming language aimed at solving some specific problem set. Increased proliferation of programming languages and data are deeply … (more…)

Today I did the opening keynote at SRECon. This talk was a little less technical than my normal talks: instead of talking about tools like tcpdump (though tcpdump makes an appearance!), I wanted to talk about how to make a career where you’re constantly l... (more…)

Julia language is now available for Raspberry Pi, with support for GPIO, the Sense HAT and Minecraft. Scientific computing opportunities galore! (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…)