Julia for Scientists: summary slides

tfiers
Thu, 08 Dec 2022 01:15:01 +0000
Teaching & Outreach

I gave a presentation on Julia today, for staff of my uni’s Psychology department.
Many interested people in the audience!

These are the slides:

(It starts slow but quickly goes into more nerdy terrain; The audience is varied, hence the different registers).

I’m posting here as they might be useful for someone else discussing Julia with colleagues.

And also to get feedback: for example, is the explanation of why base Python / R / Matlab is slow correct?
i.e,

manifold more CPU instructions per line of source code

and these extra instructions are all type checking

…type checking that is run every time the line is run (also in inner hot loops)

There’s also a slide on “Julia tips” where you might find something helpful.
Plus, shoutouts for @bkamins & @tim.holy

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