jonniedie

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by jonniedie 5y ago
StarWars indexing makes 4 sense.
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by jonniedie 5y ago
Really? I’d love to know how to do that because I run against this issue every day. Are you in the package’s environment or using `includet`?
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by jonniedie 5y ago
Revise can’t change structs in modules either. The only sane way I’ve found to handle this is using a Pluto notebook. But that’s not for everybody.
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by jonniedie 5y ago
Some other nice things that come from having a type system for numerical work: - Forward mode automatic differentiation. Having a type system that allows `Dual` numbers to pass through your algorithm, simulation, or whatever means you can c
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by jonniedie 5y ago
Julia doesn’t rely on any Unicode. It just gives you the option to use it. If it’s not useful to you, feel free to not use it.
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by jonniedie 6y ago
A simple data structure: struct ASimpleDataStructure a b end Convert a variable to a different type: x = 1 x = Float64(x) Open a file: open(“a_file.txt”) Import foreign code: using PyCall so = pyimport
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by jonniedie 6y ago
The fact that images are just arrays of color objects is really neat. Like, you can just put three blue and one brown pixels together in a matrix and you have an image.
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by jonniedie 6y ago
Reproducibility is a huge one for me. I’m often doing exploratory work that I’ll want to save in its current state and pick back up a few months (or even years) later. With Jupyter, this almost never works because I am constantly editing an
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by jonniedie 6y ago
FWIW, I thought I remembered hearing that the maintainers of the Julia extension in VSCode are working on getting embedded Pluto notebooks working.
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by jonniedie 6y ago
It’s pronounced “curth”
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by jonniedie 6y ago
Most people who talk about “production ready systems” have never had to do any serious numerical work.