# \#review

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## [Review papers on the growing adoption of Julia for scientific computing and/or HPC?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/review-papers-on-the-growing-adoption-of-julia-for-scientific-computing-and-or-hpc/130369)

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**Author:** [@Oblomov](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oblomov)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 7, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/review-papers-on-the-growing-adoption-of-julia-for-scientific-computing-and-or-hpc/130369 "2025-07-07T14:40:52Z")

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Hello all, we’re currently writing a manuscript on our experience improving a cellular automaton model for fire propagation that will include also a section on the benefits of porting from Python (the language the origi…

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## [Join me for a mini review of signal analysis tools for physiology and open science](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/join-me-for-a-mini-review-of-signal-analysis-tools-for-physiology-and-open-science/115344)

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**Author:** [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/join-me-for-a-mini-review-of-signal-analysis-tools-for-physiology-and-open-science/115344 "2024-09-02T21:48:37Z")

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Hi there, Following a review of our paper for ComplexityMeasures.jl, I’ve been invited to contribute to the issue: because I am swamped with work, I decided to contribute a mini review focusing on Julia-based tools f…

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## [A Gentle Guide to Your First JuliaCon Review](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-gentle-guide-to-your-first-juliacon-review/93537)

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**Author:** [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [February 5, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-gentle-guide-to-your-first-juliacon-review/93537 "2023-02-05T13:20:29Z")

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Hi folks! JuliaCon is just around the corner and I wanted to more publicly share this resource I put together for new reviewers of the (fantastic) annual JuliaCon. Hope it helps! As there have been some questions abou…

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## [Request for review basic introductory pages on ML, Perceptron, Neural Networks](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/request-for-review-basic-introductory-pages-on-ml-perceptron-neural-networks/79341)

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**Author:** [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [April 11, 2022, 11:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/request-for-review-basic-introductory-pages-on-ml-perceptron-neural-networks/79341 "2022-04-11T11:53:24Z")

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Hello, I have a couple of pages dealing with: General ML concepts and perceptron algorithm Neural network architectures These two small “pages” are targeted to non-cs / non-math students that know nothing of ML, with …

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## [Avoiding \`readavailable()\` when communicating with long-lived external program](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/avoiding-readavailable-when-communicating-with-long-lived-external-program/61611)

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**Author:** [@mbaz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbaz)\
**Replies:** 26\
**Last updated:** [February 2, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/avoiding-readavailable-when-communicating-with-long-lived-external-program/61611 "2022-02-02T03:42:31Z")

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I would like to ask for comments and suggestions on my solution to the following problem. I maintain a frontend to gnuplot, which implements the following plotting process: Run gnuplot and connect to it via stdin, stdo…

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## [\[Review wanted\] Adam gradient descent with complicated gradient to fit multivariate gamma convolutions](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/review-wanted-adam-gradient-descent-with-complicated-gradient-to-fit-multivariate-gamma-convolutions/74183)

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**Author:** [@lrnv](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lrnv)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 7, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/review-wanted-adam-gradient-descent-with-complicated-gradient-to-fit-multivariate-gamma-convolutions/74183 "2022-01-07T14:33:11Z")

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Hi, I have written a code that fits a multivariate gamma convolution to a dataset using a stochastic gradient descent on a home-made loss. Most of the code is directed into the computation of the gradient, which is of c…

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## [Nbabel nbody integrator speed up](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nbabel-nbody-integrator-speed-up/51712)

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**Author:** [@darleybarreto](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/darleybarreto)\
**Replies:** 64\
**Last updated:** [August 16, 2021, 5:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nbabel-nbody-integrator-speed-up/51712 "2021-08-16T05:17:29Z")

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Hi folks, I found this implementation of a Nbabel integrator in Julia, which I believe it’s a very simple one. The author report a runtime of 2.57s against 0.48s of Pythran. Would any of you help me improve this? I belie…

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## [Multithreaded compute farm](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multithreaded-compute-farm/65047)

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**Author:** [@nabla](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nabla)\
**Replies:** 26\
**Last updated:** [July 26, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multithreaded-compute-farm/65047 "2021-07-26T15:14:14Z")

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I searched for a function in Julia that creates a “compute farm” based on a channel: workers take tasks from a channel and put back 0 or more tasks to the same channel. (many mathematical problems seem to be approachable…

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## [Best way to import the dogscats dataset](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-way-to-import-the-dogscats-dataset/41006)

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**Author:** [@natema](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/natema)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 8, 2020, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-way-to-import-the-dogscats-dataset/41006 "2020-06-08T17:33:19Z")

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I would like to reproduce in julia some pytorch transfer-learning experiments which use Resnet18 on the Kaggle’s Dogs vs. Cats dataset (direct download from fast.ai). I would like some feedback on how I’m importing the …

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## [Are there any obvious problems/code smells with this GPU code?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-there-any-obvious-problems-code-smells-with-this-gpu-code/25160)

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**Author:** [@currymj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/currymj)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 12, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/are-there-any-obvious-problems-code-smells-with-this-gpu-code/25160 "2019-06-12T00:27:43Z")

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I am working on a small package to implement the Sinkhorn algorithm for optimal transport. Since this is frequently used as a loss function for generative models, my goal is to have an implementation that is generic eno…

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## [Code review for first serious piece of Julia code](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-review-for-first-serious-piece-of-julia-code/24577)

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**Author:** [@ludoro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ludoro)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-review-for-first-serious-piece-of-julia-code/24577 "2019-05-25T19:21:18Z")

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Hello everyone! I am Ludovico. I have been accepted to the Julia season of contribution, and during the community bonding time I started to tackle the first part of my proposal. I am building a new package called “Surro…

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## [Review: schur-pade matrix powers speedup?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/review-schur-pade-matrix-powers-speedup/1650)

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**Author:** [@felix](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/felix)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/review-schur-pade-matrix-powers-speedup/1650 "2017-02-24T16:01:21Z")

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Hello, tldr can anyone compare the below algorithm to its Matlab equivalent, or suggest improvements to the \\ bottleneck? I tried to re-implement the Higham-Lin algorithm for fractional matrix powers, code here. The…

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## [Recursive-blocked matrix square root](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/recursive-blocked-matrix-square-root/2138)

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**Author:** [@felix](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/felix)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 17, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/recursive-blocked-matrix-square-root/2138 "2017-02-17T02:19:26Z")

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Hello, this is about a recursive implementation of the sqrtm algorithm. The idea is that, instead of finding the solution X to X^2 = A on a pointwise basis, calculating each entry starting with the diagonal and working o…

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## [Review: pth matrix roots](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/review-pth-matrix-roots/1866)

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**Author:** [@felix](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/felix)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [February 10, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/review-pth-matrix-roots/1866 "2017-02-10T02:18:58Z")

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Hello, to test the accuracy of the Schur-Pade approximation of A^r for A a matrix and r a real number, I implemented a method rootm to calculate A^(1/q), q::Int. This is a direct generalisation of sqrtm = A^(1/2) (PR202…