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Note that this article is about Julia 1.0.3, whereas today you should consider as obsolete any experience reports involving Julia versions prior to Julia 1.10 (the current LTS vers…

I'm always surprised when people describe Julia syntax as "Pythonic": Julia's syntax was clearly inspired by MATLAB rather than Python. And that's a good thing, because Python+NumP…

I thought the proper way to correct questionable results is to conduct and publish a follow-up study that independently looks at the same question with better data and better metho…

In Julia: X = [1 2 3] Y = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9] Z = Y * X' W = hcat(Z, Z)

The problem with MATLAB is that idiomatic MATLAB style (every operation returns a fresh matrix) can easily become very inefficient: it leads to countless heap memory allocations of…

There are reasons why the same program in Julia can be 60x faster than in Python, see e.g. slide 5 in https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2526/TeX+Julia/julia-slide... for an example…

The pre-compilation speed/caching performance ("time to first plot") has practically been solved since 2024, when Julia 1.10 became the current LTS version. The current focus is on…

Julia is a very powerful and flexible language. With very powerful tools you can get a lot done quickly, including shooting yourself into the foot. Julia's type-system allows you t…

The wonders of standards-committee bike shedding?

What exactly does he technically want to preserve? Does he really care about amplitude modulation? Or does he care about the frequency band (medium wave, HF) and its propagation pr…