# Package Announcements

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## [\[ANN\] WordCloud.jl - a word cloud generator in julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-wordcloud-jl-a-word-cloud-generator-in-julia/53587)

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**Author:** [@guoyongzhi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/guoyongzhi)\
**Replies:** 18\
**Last updated:** [April 6, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-wordcloud-jl-a-word-cloud-generator-in-julia/53587 "2022-04-06T14:34:06Z")

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Hi, I’m very happy to announce my first julia package WordCloud.jl here. Word cloud (tag cloud or wordle) is a novelty visual representation of text data. The importance of each word is shown with font size or color. Wor…

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## [\[ANN\] NeuronBuilder.jl: A differentiable neuronal simulator](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-neuronbuilder-jl-a-differentiable-neuronal-simulator/78743)

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**Author:** [@AndreaRH](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AndreaRH)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [April 5, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-neuronbuilder-jl-a-differentiable-neuronal-simulator/78743 "2022-04-05T09:18:25Z")

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NeuronBuilder.jl is a quick package for building small networks of detailed, conductance-based neurons out of ion channels and synapses. The idea is that it’s easy to use this template and add your own ion channels / syn…

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## [\[ANN\] Kelpie.jl: An HTML templating engine in pure Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-kelpie-jl-an-html-templating-engine-in-pure-julia/79004)

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**Author:** [@MillironX](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/MillironX)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 4, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-kelpie-jl-an-html-templating-engine-in-pure-julia/79004 "2022-04-04T16:05:17Z")

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Kelpie wraps EzXML.jl nodes with functions taken from the names of HTML5 elements (e.g. a, img, nav, etc.). Each function takes the content of the element as a positional argument, and translates all keyword arguments …

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## [\[ANN\] ForwardDiffPullbacks.jl, ForwardDiff-based ChainRulesCore pullbacks](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-forwarddiffpullbacks-jl-forwarddiff-based-chainrulescore-pullbacks/78737)

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**Author:** [@oschulz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oschulz)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [April 4, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-forwarddiffpullbacks-jl-forwarddiff-based-chainrulescore-pullbacks/78737 "2022-04-04T15:59:29Z")

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I’m happy to announce ForwardDiffPullbacks.jl. It’s been around for a bit, but hasn’t been quite ready to annouce until now (v0.2.1 that is). ForwardDiffPullbacks implements pullbacks compatible with ChainRulesCore that…

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## [\[ANN\] SIAMFANLEquations.jl: Nonlinear solvers and book project](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-siamfanlequations-jl-nonlinear-solvers-and-book-project/51196)

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**Author:** [@ctkelley](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ctkelley)\
**Replies:** 22\
**Last updated:** [April 3, 2022, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-siamfanlequations-jl-nonlinear-solvers-and-book-project/51196 "2022-04-03T14:32:00Z")

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I just registered GitHub - ctkelley/SIAMFANLEquations.jl: This is a Julia package for a book project. This is a suite of nonlinear solvers, test problems, and examples. This package supports my book project Solving No…

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## [\[ANN\] KissSmoothing.jl - Hassle free & simple data smoothing](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-kisssmoothing-jl-hassle-free-simple-data-smoothing/78014)

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**Author:** [@francesco.alemanno](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/francesco.alemanno)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [April 2, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-kisssmoothing-jl-hassle-free-simple-data-smoothing/78014 "2022-04-02T20:04:52Z")

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I would like to announce a tiny package I made, KissSmoothing, it can be helpful to those like me that sometimes for visualization/processing purposes just want to reasonably smooth some data in a matrix. This package o…

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## [ANN: SimulatedNeuralMoments](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-simulatedneuralmoments/52032)

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**Author:** [@mcreel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcreel)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [April 2, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-simulatedneuralmoments/52032 "2022-04-02T07:02:55Z")

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I’m happy to announce that the package SimulatedNeuralMoments is available in the general registry. This is a package for inference methods that can be thought of as approximate Bayesian computing (ABC), with a particula…

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## [\[ANN\] AbnormalReturns.jl: The fastest method for calculating abnormal returns](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-abnormalreturns-jl-the-fastest-method-for-calculating-abnormal-returns/78752)

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**Author:** [@junder873](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/junder873)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 30, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-abnormalreturns-jl-the-fastest-method-for-calculating-abnormal-returns/78752 "2022-03-30T15:41:17Z")

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I am happy to announce AbnormalReturns.jl, which, as far as I am aware, is the fastest method to calculate abnormal returns. What are abnormal returns? Abnormal returns are common in finance and economics event studies,…

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## [\[ANN\] eigshow.jl, a demonstrator for EVD/SVD intuition](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-eigshow-jl-a-demonstrator-for-evd-svd-intuition/70340)

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**Author:** [@tobydriscoll](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tobydriscoll)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [March 29, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-eigshow-jl-a-demonstrator-for-evd-svd-intuition/70340 "2022-03-29T15:26:52Z")

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A long-time favorite linear algebra teaching widget of mine is matlab’s EIGSHOW, which lets you demonstrate the geometric intuition behind the EVD and the SVD in two dimensions. It was pulled from core matlab quite a whi…

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## [\[ANN\] SimSearchManifoldLearning.jl: Non-linear dimensional reduction using SimilaritySearch (ManifoldLearning and UMAP)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-simsearchmanifoldlearning-jl-non-linear-dimensional-reduction-using-similaritysearch-manifoldlearning-and-umap/78416)

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**Author:** [@Eric\_Sadit\_Tellez](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eric_Sadit_Tellez)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-simsearchmanifoldlearning-jl-non-linear-dimensional-reduction-using-similaritysearch-manifoldlearning-and-umap/78416 "2022-03-24T16:38:33Z")

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I am glad to announce SimSearchManifoldLearning, which implements some methods and API to use SimilaritySearch with manifold learning methods. In particular, it implements the knn function for ManifoldLearning and relate…

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## [\[ANN\] Kyulacs.jl (Julia interface for qulacs)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-kyulacs-jl-julia-interface-for-qulacs/78385)

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**Author:** [@terasakisatoshi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/terasakisatoshi)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 24, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-kyulacs-jl-julia-interface-for-qulacs/78385 "2022-03-24T11:51:32Z")

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Hi, everyone. I’m happy announce the release of Kyulacs.jl. Kyulacs.jl is Julia interface for qulacs. Qulacs is a Python/C++ library for fast simulation of large, noisy, or parametric quantum circuits. This package do…

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## [\[ANN\] LogarithmicNumbers.jl v1.0.0](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-logarithmicnumbers-jl-v1-0-0/78305)

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**Author:** [@cjdoris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cjdoris)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 23, 2022, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-logarithmicnumbers-jl-v1-0-0/78305 "2022-03-23T10:08:50Z")

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LogarithmicNumbers.jl is a logarithmic number system for Julia. It provides signed Logarithmic{T} and unsigned ULogarithmic{T} real number types which store the logarithm of the number. This means you can represent real…

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## [FermiDiracIntegrals](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fermidiracintegrals/78301)

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**Author:** [@feanor12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/feanor12)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 22, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/fermidiracintegrals/78301 "2022-03-22T19:42:43Z")

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I registered a small package to calculate the complete Fermi-Dirac integral. This is useful when Fermi statistics is used, which appears for example in the bandstructures of doped semiconductors. There is also an appro…

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## [\[ANN\] Makie.jl 0.16](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-jl-0-16/77996)

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**Author:** [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [March 22, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-makie-jl-0-16/77996 "2022-03-22T14:58:27Z")

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A belated release announcement for Makie 0.16! It got held up by my desire to create an announcement blogpost via a new Makie blog created with JSServe (thanks to @piever and @jules it even looks half decent) - which wa…

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## [\[ANN\] FixedPoint.jl - Solver of equations using Fixed Point Method \[with a few bonuses\]](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-fixedpoint-jl-solver-of-equations-using-fixed-point-method-with-a-few-bonuses/78114)

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**Author:** [@francesco.alemanno](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/francesco.alemanno)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [March 21, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-fixedpoint-jl-solver-of-equations-using-fixed-point-method-with-a-few-bonuses/78114 "2022-03-21T21:03:12Z")

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Hello, I’ve written a simple package to solve equations using accelerated fixed point method: Allows for nesterov’s acceleration (more stable than Anderson acceleration) Allows for relaxation (dampening of updates) usi…

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## [\[ANN\] ExtremeFloats.jl: Floats with extended range of exponents](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-extremefloats-jl-floats-with-extended-range-of-exponents/78164)

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**Author:** [@a5sk6n](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/a5sk6n)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 20, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-extremefloats-jl-floats-with-extended-range-of-exponents/78164 "2022-03-20T16:20:37Z")

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ExtremeFloats.jl is a new package that allows you to perform floating point operations with a very large range of exponents. Float64 offers 11 bits for the exponent, ExtremeFloat gives you 64 bits. This is especially use…

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## [\[ANN\] LiveServer: A simple development server with live-reload capability](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-liveserver-a-simple-development-server-with-live-reload-capability/23380)

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**Author:** [@asprionj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/asprionj)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [March 19, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-liveserver-a-simple-development-server-with-live-reload-capability/23380 "2022-03-19T20:59:46Z")

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Hi everyone, we (@tlienart and myself) have developed a simple and lightweight pure-Julia development web-server, inspired from Python’s http.server and Node’s browsersync. It is based on HTTP.jl and has live-reload capa…

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## [\[ANN\] StringManipulation.jl v0.2.0 and TerminalPager v0.3.0](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-stringmanipulation-jl-v0-2-0-and-terminalpager-v0-3-0/78034)

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**Author:** [@Ronis\_BR](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ronis_BR)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 17, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-stringmanipulation-jl-v0-2-0-and-terminalpager-v0-3-0/78034 "2022-03-17T21:02:32Z")

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Hi! I just tagged StringManipulation.jl v0.2.0 and TerminalPager.jl v0.3.0 :partying\_face: StringManipulaion.jl I realized that some packages that I built were having a lot of duplicated code related to string processi…

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## [\[ANN\] ProximalAlgorithms v0.5.0: documentation and ecosystem update](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-proximalalgorithms-v0-5-0-documentation-and-ecosystem-update/76738)

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**Author:** [@lostella](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lostella)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [March 12, 2022, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-proximalalgorithms-v0-5-0-documentation-and-ecosystem-update/76738 "2022-03-12T13:26:23Z")

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I’m happy to announce that a ProximalAlgorithms v0.5.0 was released! This new version comes with some breaking changes, and significant code overhaul. Most importantly, it comes with documentation, which was long overdue…

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## [Comonicon: Pre-1.0 Announcement](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/comonicon-pre-1-0-announcement/77657)

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**Author:** [@Roger-luo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Roger-luo)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 9, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/comonicon-pre-1-0-announcement/77657 "2022-03-09T23:54:36Z")

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The CLI generator Comonicon has been announced for a while and has been tagged 0.12.10 version recently. The interface has been stabilized for a while, thus I’m thinking to release its first 1.0 version. I’d like to see …

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## [\[ANN\] OutlierDetection.jl - Outlier / Anomaly Detection Ecosystem](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-outlierdetection-jl-outlier-anomaly-detection-ecosystem/77422)

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**Author:** [@davnn](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davnn)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 5, 2022, 6:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-outlierdetection-jl-outlier-anomaly-detection-ecosystem/77422 "2022-03-05T06:55:51Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m happy to announce that there exists an Outlier/Anomaly Detection ecosystem for Julia now :slight\_smile:! Julia is the perfect language to develop novel outlier detection algorithms, and I hope that mor…

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## [\[ANN\] CoolProp.jl 0.1](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-coolprop-jl-0-1/77368)

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**Author:** [@barche](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/barche)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-coolprop-jl-0-1/77368 "2022-03-03T16:33:10Z")

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Hi all, The CoolProp.jl wrapper for the CoolProp fluids properties library has been around for a while, but now the package is registered and installable from the General repository. I’d like to highlight a new feature,…

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## [New Package: SlackSDK](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-package-slacksdk/77300)

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**Author:** [@avik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/avik)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-package-slacksdk/77300 "2022-03-02T13:28:08Z")

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I thought some of you would be interested in a recent weekend project of mine: SlackSDK.jl There are a few other Julia projects out there that interface with Slack, but most of them seem to implement a small set of func…

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## [\[ANN\] HorseML.jl v0.4.0](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-horseml-jl-v0-4-0/77181)

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**Author:** [@QGMW22](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/QGMW22)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-horseml-jl-v0-4-0/77181 "2022-03-01T22:01:08Z")

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Announcing HorseML v0.4.0. Clustering Models and data builder has been added. This is a Clustering result: Please see the docs for details.

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## [\[ANN\] ValSplit.jl: Compile away dynamic dispatch on Val-typed arguments](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-valsplit-jl-compile-away-dynamic-dispatch-on-val-typed-arguments/77096)

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**Author:** [@Xuan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Xuan)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-valsplit-jl-compile-away-dynamic-dispatch-on-val-typed-arguments/77096 "2022-03-01T18:48:33Z")

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Ever wanted to use methods with Val-typed arguments, but avoid dynamic dispatch? Here’s a little package I worked on over the past week that allows you to do just that! ValSplit.jl provides the @valsplit macro, which co…

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## [\[ANN\] ViscousFlow.jl v0.5.1](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-viscousflow-jl-v0-5-1/77250)

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**Author:** [@jdeldre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jdeldre)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 1, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-viscousflow-jl-v0-5-1/77250 "2022-03-01T17:41:07Z")

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Announcing the release of version 0.5.1 of ViscousFlow.jl, a set of tools for computing and analyzing 2-d (for now) viscous incompressible flows with arbitrary body shapes. The package relies on the method of immersed la…

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## [\[ANN\] C3T - Crash Course Category Theory 🐱](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-c3t-crash-course-category-theory/73392)

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**Author:** [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 28, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-c3t-crash-course-category-theory/73392 "2022-02-28T02:40:50Z")

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Hi all! I have been in the process of creating a Crash Course Category Theory website called C3T which utilizes Julia, Julia Markdown, KaTeX, Franklin.jl, Weave.jl, mermaid.js, and some Haskell! This is designed to …

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## [Checkpointing.jl Checkpointing Library for Timestepping Codes](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/checkpointing-jl-checkpointing-library-for-timestepping-codes/77028)

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**Author:** [@sriharikrishna](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sriharikrishna)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/checkpointing-jl-checkpointing-library-for-timestepping-codes/77028 "2022-02-24T15:32:08Z")

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@Michel\_Schanen and I have created a package that provides checkpointing schemes for adjoint computation using automatic differentiation/autodiff (AD) of time stepping loops. The schemes are agnostic to the ADTool being …

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## [\[ANN\] FileCmp.jl](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-filecmp-jl/76919)

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**Author:** [@jlapeyre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jlapeyre)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-filecmp-jl/76919 "2022-02-24T12:14:27Z")

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FileCmp.jl is in the General Registry. FileCmp.filecmp(path1, path2) returns true if the files at path1 and path2 are byte-for-byte equal. There was a Discourse post on this a few years ago, linked from the README link…

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## [\[ANN\] DLPack.jl - Share CPU and CUDA arrays between Julia and Python](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-dlpack-jl-share-cpu-and-cuda-arrays-between-julia-and-python/76871)

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**Author:** [@PabloZubieta](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PabloZubieta)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 21, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-dlpack-jl-share-cpu-and-cuda-arrays-between-julia-and-python/76871 "2022-02-21T23:01:29Z")

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Hello, I’m pleased to announce the release of DLPack.jl. DLPack is a C API that has continuously been adopted as a the base protocol for exchanging tensor data structures between different python libraries including JAX,…

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