R is a widely used language for data science, but due to performance most of its underlying library are written in C, C++, or Fortran. Julia is a relative newcomer to the field which has busted out...
Read ItAutomatic differentiation is a "compiler trick" whereby a code that calculates f(x) is transformed into a code that calculates f'(x). This trick and its two forms, forward and reverse mode automati...
Read ItIn this tutorial we will go through the steps to finalizing a Julia package. At this point you have some functionality you wish to share with the world... what do you do? You want to have documenta...
Read ItIn this post I would like to reflect a bit on the Julia programming language. These are my personal views and I have had more than a year developing a lot of packages for the Julia programming lang...
Read ItLet me start by saying Julia is a great language. I love the language, it is what I find to be the most powerful and intuitive language that I have ever used. It's undoubtedly my favorite language....
Read ItHow many workers do you choose when running a parallel job in Julia? The answer is easy right? The number of physical cores. We always default to that number. For my Core i7 4770K, that means it's ...
Read ItWhen most people think of the Julia programming language, they usually think about its speed. Sure, Julia is fast, but what I emphasized in a previous blog post is that what makes Julia tick is not...
Read ItIn this post I am going to try to explain in detail the type-dispatch design which is used in Julian software architectures. It's modeled after the design of many different packages and Julia Base,...
Read ItThis is a high level post about algorithms (especially mathematical, scientific, and data analysis algorithms) which I hope can help people who are not researchers or numerical software developers ...
Read ItWhile reading the final report of the reproducibility workshop at XSEDE14, I noticed a statement that I encounter frequently in discussions about reproducible research: "One general consensus was ...
Read ItCreating rankings might seem like a vain exercise in belly-button gazing, even more so for people so unlike that kind of things as programmers. However, in this paper we will try to prove how crea...
Read ItThis report summarizes the presentations and discussions on the research activities presented at XP 2014, the 15th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Pr...
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