# Offtopic

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## [Big Integers on the Alto](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/big-integers-on-the-alto/36164)

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**Author:** [@goretkin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/goretkin)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 18, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/big-integers-on-the-alto/36164 "2020-03-18T21:55:32Z")

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“Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls demonstrates Smalltalk” One of the things that is nice about this is that, although Smalltalk used small integers, we made sure that you can make large numbers with them. …

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## [Coronavirus data set](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/coronavirus-data-set/36094)

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**Author:** [@mike\_k](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mike_k)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/coronavirus-data-set/36094 "2020-03-17T12:42:06Z")

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Let me point you to a nice dataset in case you like to contribute whatever. Stay safe, and have fun :wink:

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## [Health and safety](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/health-and-safety/35943)

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**Author:** [@DaymondLing](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/DaymondLing)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 16, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/health-and-safety/35943 "2020-03-16T06:53:02Z")

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Completely off topic, just wishing all the brilliant people here in the Julia community and your family and community health and safety. :vulcan\_salute:

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## [My crude attempt at the SIR model](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-crude-attempt-at-the-sir-model/33919)

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**Author:** [@StevenSiew](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StevenSiew)\
**Replies:** 29\
**Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-crude-attempt-at-the-sir-model/33919 "2020-03-12T03:01:38Z")

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Warning! I am nobody with no Medical qualification I literally pulled the parameter values out of thin air Results here are NOT to be used for any serious endeavor S = Array{Float64}(undef,1000) I = Array{Float64}(und…

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## [Azure Data Scince VM - includes Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/azure-data-scince-vm-includes-julia/35794)

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**Author:** [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 10, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/azure-data-scince-vm-includes-julia/35794 "2020-03-10T11:35:50Z")

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I am in a trining course at Microsoft in the UK, on applying AI Azure has a canned VM available for Data Science. It has Julia pre-installed! Pat on the abck to MS. I have not go the version yet though as it is just …

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## [JASP & jamovi](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jasp-jamovi/35586)

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**Author:** [@Usor](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Usor)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 5, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jasp-jamovi/35586 "2020-03-05T15:26:01Z")

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Any of you use JASP or jamovi? https://www.jamovi.org/ They look very interesting, though I think more interesting if Julia instead of R were used.

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## [Tab completion for using in the REPL](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tab-completion-for-using-in-the-repl/35352)

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**Author:** [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 1, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tab-completion-for-using-in-the-repl/35352 "2020-03-01T08:37:28Z")

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I just realised that tab completion works when int he REPL and you want to type using Argggh… silly me.

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## [Looking for artists to help with a game](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-artists-to-help-with-a-game/35151)

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**Author:** [@johnken](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnken)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 26, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/looking-for-artists-to-help-with-a-game/35151 "2020-02-26T04:57:33Z")

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I am planning to make a game. It will be a post-apocalyptic game, inspired by the game “Don’t Starve”, and the movies “The Road” and “The Book of Eli”. I want the game to be realistic and fun to play at the same time. Th…

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## [Programming Language Checklist](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/programming-language-checklist/34457)

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**Author:** [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [February 12, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/programming-language-checklist/34457 "2020-02-12T04:48:13Z")

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https://www.famicol.in/language\_checklist.html I will start the ball rolling. Any more to check? The name of your language makes it impossible to find on Google

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## [SLATE project](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/slate-project/34082)

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**Author:** [@Noel\_Araujo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Noel_Araujo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 6, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/slate-project/34082 "2020-02-06T15:59:41Z")

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I found a projetc called Linear Algebra Targeting Exascale SLATE that aims to substitute ScaLapack. Looking around its documentation and articles, they have some concepts similar to Julia like using Templates of C++ in…

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## [It is so nice to program in a sane language!](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/it-is-so-nice-to-program-in-a-sane-language/32227)

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**Author:** [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Replies:** 50\
**Last updated:** [February 6, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/it-is-so-nice-to-program-in-a-sane-language/32227 "2020-02-06T10:20:13Z")

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Just watched Gary Bernhardt’s “wat”. JavaScript: It is so nice to work with a sane programming language rather than this lunacy!

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## [Mathematical Programming Computation: open access publications in optimization](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mathematical-programming-computation-open-access-publications-in-optimization/34069)

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**Author:** [@dpo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpo)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 1, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/mathematical-programming-computation-open-access-publications-in-optimization/34069 "2020-02-01T23:27:40Z")

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I hope it’s ok to post this announcement here and that I chose the right category. There was a discussion on Slack/math-optimization recently about publishing optimization research in an open access journal (I can’t fin…

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## [Travis slowdown?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/travis-slowdown/33977)

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**Author:** [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 30, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/travis-slowdown/33977 "2020-01-30T15:03:17Z")

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I am experiencing long (3h+) queue times on Travis CI for recent open source builds, despite status being ostensibly 100%. I am wondering if I missed something, thought I would ask here before contacting them.

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## [Help me model event of pandemic proportion](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-me-model-event-of-pandemic-proportion/33831)

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**Author:** [@StevenSiew](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StevenSiew)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [January 27, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-me-model-event-of-pandemic-proportion/33831 "2020-01-27T04:30:00Z")

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Please help me model the event of global cases of coronavirus with a Logistic function. I am trying the find the values of these three parameters L X0 (X\_zero) k $ cat data.txt 17.0,41.0 19.0,62.0 20.0,201.0 2…

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## [Đ (Edh) - maybe a competitor, or can it make friends with Julia?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/d-edh-maybe-a-competitor-or-can-it-make-friends-with-julia/33539)

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**Author:** [@complyue](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/complyue)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [January 23, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/d-edh-maybe-a-competitor-or-can-it-make-friends-with-julia/33539 "2020-01-23T08:31:39Z")

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I’m author of Đ (Edh), just released it to public. I have long been watching on Julia (since 0.4.x I roughly remember), I’m sincerely happy to see it reaches 1.3 nowadays! But I regret to have had no enough materials ga…

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## [A data scientist's thoughts on R & Python](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-data-scientists-thoughts-on-r-python/33402)

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**Author:** [@Gunter\_Faes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gunter_Faes)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [January 23, 2020, 8:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-data-scientists-thoughts-on-r-python/33402 "2020-01-23T08:26:54Z")

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This block by Gordon Shotwell describes his comparative thoughts on R and Python. Maybe this article is helpful to understand how the “ordinary” data scientist thinks and what he needs in his daily work? And helps to des…

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## [Why is heap memory "bad"?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-heap-memory-bad/33290)

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**Author:** [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [January 17, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-heap-memory-bad/33290 "2020-01-17T04:00:22Z")

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I’ve been trying to understand some details of how certain programming languages work and certain paradigms such as immutability of variables. In particular I am trying to understand what stack/heap memory is and how it …

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## [Julian "trackpy" alternative?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julian-trackpy-alternative/32634)

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**Author:** [@francesco.alemanno](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/francesco.alemanno)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [January 16, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julian-trackpy-alternative/32634 "2020-01-16T06:00:57Z")

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does anyone know or is working on a Particle Tracking toolkit for Julia, in python there is a good package called “trackpy” : https://github.com/soft-matter/trackpy is there any workable alternative for Julia?

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## [Thinking about buying a multicore system of ebay. Would appreciate any thoughts or experiences](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/thinking-about-buying-a-multicore-system-of-ebay-would-appreciate-any-thoughts-or-experiences/32800)

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**Author:** [@anon69491625](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon69491625)\
**Replies:** 40\
**Last updated:** [January 7, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/thinking-about-buying-a-multicore-system-of-ebay-would-appreciate-any-thoughts-or-experiences/32800 "2020-01-07T18:38:23Z")

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So I’m headed into multithreading and want to put as many threads up as possible. I am considering buying the system below and would appreciate any experiences or guidance on the environment. I cannot be the first to tre…

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## [Patrick Winston's advice for speakers (YouTube video)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/patrick-winstons-advice-for-speakers-youtube-video/33029)

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**Author:** [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [January 6, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/patrick-winstons-advice-for-speakers-youtube-video/33029 "2020-01-06T15:59:22Z")

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I enjoyed this talk by Patrick Winston of MIT on how to give a presentation: Plenty of tips and things to do - and not do - when giving a talk.

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## [Julia Logo: Commercial Font](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-logo-commercial-font/26418)

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**Author:** [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [January 6, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-logo-commercial-font/26418 "2020-01-06T13:17:44Z")

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It’s a pity that the font in Julia’s logo, MN Latin, is commercial. Apparently it comes bundled with MacOS but as a Windows user that doesn’t help much. I did find Tamil MN in the https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia-logo…

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## [Last puzzle of 2019](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/last-puzzle-of-2019/32820)

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**Author:** [@StevenSiew](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StevenSiew)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [December 31, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/last-puzzle-of-2019/32820 "2019-12-31T13:58:14Z")

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“I am a time traveller!” said the time traveller. “Bullshit!” said I. “I will prove it to you. Get a fair dice. Color the side 1,2 and 3 as red. Color the sides 4 and 5 as green. And finally colour the side 6 as blue.” I…

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## [What to do after a PR is merged?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-to-do-after-a-pr-is-merged/32720)

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**Author:** [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 26, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-to-do-after-a-pr-is-merged/32720 "2019-12-26T18:33:48Z")

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I have successfully submitted a PR to a small project. To do so, I first forked the repository, cloned is locally, made a new branch, made some changes, pushed changes back to my forked copy, and submitted the PR. What …

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## [R and Python together in RStudio](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/r-and-python-together-in-rstudio/32458)

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**Author:** [@Gunter\_Faes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gunter_Faes)\
**Replies:** 31\
**Last updated:** [December 24, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/r-and-python-together-in-rstudio/32458 "2019-12-24T14:40:37Z")

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Is it going to be more difficult for Julia to become a tool for the data analyst? R and Python together in RStudio … :thinking:

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## [Two minute papers video about AI](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-minute-papers-video-about-ai/31949)

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**Author:** [@Iagoba\_Apellaniz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Iagoba_Apellaniz)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [December 7, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/two-minute-papers-video-about-ai/31949 "2019-12-07T22:36:03Z")

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Which language are they using? Is it Julia? It seems quite similar.

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## [Which Discourse area for PRE Coding discussions? NB I have NOT written a line of code](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/which-discourse-area-for-pre-coding-discussions-nb-i-have-not-written-a-line-of-code/31767)

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**Author:** [@anon97116444](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon97116444)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [December 2, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/which-discourse-area-for-pre-coding-discussions-nb-i-have-not-written-a-line-of-code/31767 "2019-12-02T23:43:34Z")

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HI there, I am trying to make sure I play by the rules of discourse and so far have screwed up TWICE. So, I am making sure that I get it right this time by asking the question in the subject. To clarify, I have a HIGH …

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## [Data Science for Managers: Programming Languages](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/data-science-for-managers-programming-languages/31699)

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**Author:** [@Gunter\_Faes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gunter_Faes)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [December 2, 2019, 10:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/data-science-for-managers-programming-languages/31699 "2019-12-02T10:32:33Z")

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I found this interesting article about data analysis languages on KDnuggetes. Julia is described as follows by ActiveWizards: Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical computin…

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## [Eigenvectors from eigenvalues](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/eigenvectors-from-eigenvalues/31600)

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**Author:** [@jonniedie](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jonniedie)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [November 28, 2019, 12:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/eigenvectors-from-eigenvalues/31600 "2019-11-28T00:12:09Z")

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Really neat paper. Seems pretty unbelievable that something this fundamental has gone unnoticed for so long. Eigenvectors from Eigenvalues

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## [Paper on energy per instruction - using an appropriate numerical type](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/paper-on-energy-per-instruction-using-an-appropriate-numerical-type/31216)

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**Author:** [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 19, 2019, 11:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/paper-on-energy-per-instruction-using-an-appropriate-numerical-type/31216 "2019-11-19T11:51:33Z")

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Several years ago I Read an excellent paper which discussed the knee jerk reaction of using double precision everywhere for scientific computation. The paper analysed the energy use per instruction. As I remember the pa…

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## [Github topics no longer list all repositories?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/github-topics-no-longer-list-all-repositories/30845)

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**Author:** [@chakravala](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chakravala)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 7, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/github-topics-no-longer-list-all-repositories/30845 "2019-11-07T20:24:42Z")

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It seems that tagged topics on github no longer list all repositories: https://github.com/topics/julia Previously, all repositories tagged with a topic would be listed and could be filtered in various ways. Now, there …

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