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Jcol1··on R vs. Python for Data Science [video]
"the module system doesn't let you build modular production code and apps like Python does"

Can you elaborate on this?

Jcol1··on The Julia Language: Case Studies in Economics, Aviation, 3D Printing
Website is coming along nicely :)
Jcol1··on What else are we getting wrong about programming languages?
How is julia or it's type system not suitable for general purpose programming? Multidispatch seems like a generalization of python...and fields don't have to be typed.

general purpose programs in julia: https://github.com/shashi/Escher.jl https://github.com/essenciary/Genie.jl

Jcol1··on Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal
Can you eli5?
Jcol1··on Foundations of Data Science [pdf]
What sort of foundational mathematics is required to fully consume this book?

I assume multivariate calculus and linear algebra?

Jcol1··on Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal
Isn't the entire universe one quantum system? If so, how can we talk about discrete systems.

Also, when you say there are not discrete things, do you mean in the QFT sense of field excitations?

Jcol1··on Machine Learning and Visualization in Julia
You seem to be correct.

However, Numba's type system and syntax is far less expressive and powerful than Julia's.

Jcol1··on Uvloop – Ultra fast implementation of asyncio event loop on top of libuv
Can you share in general how it improves over aiohttp (speed, architecture etc)
Jcol1··on Julia v0.5.0 Released
Got it
Jcol1··on When Blind People Do Algebra, the Brain's Visual Areas Light Up
Can you describe what exactly happens/feels/what is this visualization of the mathematics?
Jcol1··on Python JITs are coming
Very cool
Jcol1··on Python JITs are coming
can you try it in julia?
Jcol1··on Python JITs are coming
I think its just a matter of time before this happens (its mature enough or an important app is released).

Julia is designed for general purpose computing from day one, but this community is not dealing with the same painpoints that scientists have been.