A lot of diverse 
interesting things and a lot of abbreviations
Some of them, like ODE, are probably known to (almost) everyone here. But those specific to physics, biology, economy etc. are not necessarily known to those outside the respective field.
I am solving optimization models for different applications. The last publication regarding quantitative social network analysis is online here. Everything was coded in Julia including the analysis of the results. For the plots I used Julia together with PyPlot.
I am currently moving to Julia the software we use in our Wind Tunnel.
Paulo
My thought here - I always said that Julia needs a ākiller appā, which is something that compels people to specify Julia to be installed on a system. I am wrong. Julia is being used quietly, maybe as a glue with older C/Fortran codes. But increasingly using the rich set of Julia packages.
I guess also that the ease of installing Julia in your own directory space means that you donāt have to āspecifyā it - you just download it and get on with the job.
Please let the discussion continue - there are such interesting things here.
Thatās the type of musical number praising something, right? Eg ODE to Joy?
1000 internet points to anyone who finds an ODE whoās solution is ode to joy.
Right now most of my Julia work has been a fishery simulator, which Iām using to test index standardization models.
@jbmuir Porting the GMRF/SPDE stuff to Julia has been something Iāve wanted for a long time; I use it for fisheries index standardization models. If I can get that and a good Laplace approximation I might be able to move some estimation models from TMB to Julia. The less C++ I have to write the better!
@ElOceanografo are you at the Alaska Center? Iām at UW (QERM, but I sit in SAFS).
Iām building a property based testing framework, during the development of which it has already uncovered some bad codepaths in julia. You can take a look here if you like, but be aware that itās not yet ready to be used extensively. Thereās a lot of things to do. Iām currently working on and off to make it more stable and consistent, which also means using the package to test itself 
Iām a typical scripting user - I work in economic consulting with a quantitative focus, so I build whatever model is required on the next project. This is pretty variable, and recently has included a credit risk model, a game-theory inspired model of trading network frequencies, a forecasting model that combined classical time series stuff (via RCall) with linear regression techniques and ML algos from MLJ, etc etc.
None of this is super groundbreaking or interesting from a research perspective, but overall I donāt think Iād be able to cover the wide variety of things I need to get done in often super compressed time scales (it is consulting after allā¦) in any other language. The ability to more or less write out my thoughts in a stream-of-consciousness fashion in a couple of hours and get something workable at decent speed is invaluable to the kind of work I do.
My only foray into ārealā development so far has been https://github.com/nilshg/SynthControl.jl/ - again itās great how quickly a non-CS person like myself can set up a working package with most (cough could easily be all if I spent some timeā¦ cough) the bells and whistles with almost no effort is pretty remarkable. I just wish I had more time to spend on this!
I am at the Alaska Center, and used to be at SAFS myself. I didnāt realize there were any other fishy Julia users in Seattle, we should definitely talk more! Iāve actually been putting off learning TMB/R-INLA/VAST myself, since they all seem like things I should be able to do in Julia. Just havenāt got around to implementing them yetā¦ 
Maybe Iāll start a new thread to discuss GMRFs and related methods, since at least you and @jbmuir are also interested in them?
are you the author of Psychro.jl? i made a package just for specification of thermodynamic models (ThermoState.jl), and your package seems to propose similar ideas, nice!
Thatās me. The package needs a little attention. I will check-out ThermoState.jl this weekend.
Just finished I Contain Multitudes, and it was an approachable coverage of a really interesting topic. There was some coverage of the gut-microbiome-brain axis in terms of the microbiomeās effect on mood, how a microbiome accustomed to a certain diet can influence cravings, and the mouse models of ASD as you mentioned. Iād love to hear more about your work, do you have any publications you can recommend?
Woah, 5 days is a fast turn-around! 
We have a preprint up, but it has someā¦ errā¦ problems. Take the results with a grain of salt :-/
Itās not as impressive as it sounds. I got it as an audiobook when you recommended it and found time to listen while I was walking around in the wee hours of the morning these past few days looking for migratory birds killed by building collisions as part of volunteering for a study on the topic. Iāll definitely check out the preprint, but how have your impressions of the results changed in the 4 months (to the day, actually) since?
Getting way off topic, and itās probably not something I should talk about too openly on a public forum. Letās just say it was a collaborative effort, and I have become somewhat concerned about the contributions of one or more of my collaborators.
Yikes. Best of luck salvaging what you can.
Im trying to work out an extensible api for thermodynamic properties, for now, i have:
https://github.com/longemen3000/ThermoState.jl
It seems that Kronecker had described Cantor as a charlatanā¦
[quote=ākevbonham, post:21, topic:47297, full:trueā]3. Many studies (including one Iām close to publishing) demonstrate that there are associations between gut microbes and neurocognitive development in humans
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Is this true for embryos, for babies or at any age?
Then, what foods should I eat to be more intelligent? I hope itās not too late