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Its also very similar to many opinionated Python style guides (minus the !, and where @ is used for decorators [which are a bit meta like macros])

Blog post for the paper: https://deepmind.com/blog/differentiable-neural-computers/

Because index sets in mathematics are typically indexed beginning at 1? The most notable, and relevant, being indexing in matrices

Are you using column generation/Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition?

Not sure what you mean - in case our office gets hit by a meteor?

This is partially fixed in Julia 0.5 (or available now as BaseTestNext.jl in Julia 0.4). Its basically a backwards-compatible rewrite of the former Base.Test that adds the notion o…

StaffJoy ( https://www.staffjoy.com/ ) are using Julia for staff schedule optimization, and a large multinational is using it for train schedule optimization. Its also in use (at l…

Indeed, the "Ju" in "Jupyter" is for Julia!

There are definitely some scope issues with the distributed computing functionality, see e.g. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13649 for a general tracking issue (also, th…

Slides: http://iaindunning.com/talks/JuliaCon15JuliaOpt.pdf

Source? One of the best arguments, that is personally relevant to the work I do, is that indexing in math often starts at 1 (e.g. the indexing of rows and columns of a matrix). Tra…

The problem is that you may have to stray outside that vectorized bubble, and at that point you enter into a two-language situation if you are using R (e.g. RCpp) or Python (Cython…

Varies wildly depending on field even within an institution, and is still only for 9 months of the year (pay for the summer either with grants, consulting, or by teaching summer sc…

Sure, go ahead!

As someone who almost exclusively uses Julia for their day-to-day work (and side projects), I think most of the author's thoughts about Julia are correct. I think the language is g…

I also interned there, and my team was working 50ish hour weeks on a relatively flexible schedule (e.g. come in 7am-11am, leave 3pm-7pm). Search-related team. I know some teams mig…