Hi all. So, I just landed a new postdoc at a very famous institution where no one uses julia hahaha. Every time I bring up that I work in julia and not matlab or python I get weird looks and comments like “Really? isn’t it too underdeveloped”, or “What’s Julia?”. So, I decided to make a presentat…

This presentation may be more impactful if the examples match your institution domain of interest. Could you tell more about it (data analysis, economy, finance, physics…)

[image] marianoarnaiz: Every time I bring up that I work in julia and not matlab or python I get weird looks and comments like “Really? isn’t it too underdeveloped”, or “What’s Julia?”. Just use it. It’s not underdeveloped if you build and show the packages people want to use. Then show peopl…

There are many things that can may be more or less important depending on the personal experience of each one. So for a general audience I tend to show things like: achievable performance, of course package management integration with documentation (help entries and Documenter.jl) simplicity of cr…

It is earth science based. A lot of plotting, Machine Learning, Wave modeling. Finite elements, Signal processing. Mapping! A lot of physicists, mathematicians and computer scientist with applications to study the earth

What do you guys think about the potential of bringing people over to Julia? I mean I think i a great language to start (you can write live C or like Matlab), but I see a lot of seasoned coders here too!. Thoughts?

[image] ChrisRackauckas: Ask what things they cannot do today and build that. Hi Chris, you are an extremely generous man, but how could most of us possibly build things like Tullio, DiffEqs, LoopVectorization, Makie, and so many other high caliber packages that do make a difference? In the l…

for “wave” a short example like Taking advantage of Apple M1? - #9 by LaurentPlagne can be made target agnostic (CPU/GPU) very easily. I think it is a unique feature of Julia (and the online GLMakie animation is fun too).

[image] rafael.guerra: In the large base of the pyramid there are probably users with a little bit of DIY code thrown in. But I should add, that a lot can be achieved by composing existing packages. Building something to solve problems that someone cannot solve today can include using all of …

On the earth science mapping front, geospatial tools are in heavy development currently. A lot of things will still seem harder than R/Python/Matlab and definitely less documented. But that is rapidly changing. The interop is getting very good - increasingly geospatial packages work together seaml…

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