Calculus with Julia

(jverzani.github.io)

107 points | by subset 1 day ago

3 comments

  • patagurbon 1 hour ago
    There's no language I'd want to teach (applied) math in more than Julia. Lean is obviously kind for anything involving a proof, but for teaching anything with linear algebra involved the syntax alone is enough of a reason to prefer Julia.

    Optimization, specifically the kind that JuMP tackles, is another field where teaching is probably easier in Julia than any other language

  • subset 1 day ago
    I'm just picking up Julia for my DSP course at uni, and came across this nice intro. It's very well-paced for a first introduction to programming!
  • neronuser 54 minutes ago
    Anyone using Julia outside university settings? I tried to get into it around 5 years ago, and it felt good, was conceptually interesting, but haven't seen any adoption or talks anywhere outside the academia
    • pjmlp 3 minutes ago
    • sdsd 27 minutes ago
      I saw it used five years ago on a LessWrong post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y6TtPfcKiHjK9Bmoa/sleeping-j...

      That's the only time I've ever even heard it mentioned outside HN. I felt a lot of excitement for Julia's automatic differentiation during the ML era, because you had programmers with weak math backgrounds suddenly needing to do basic calculus (any dev from that era has the chain rule burnt into their brain).

      Then the ML community settled on Python as their language, and if performance was an issue you wrote a library in C++, and obviously that was all sucked into the event horizon of LLMs so people "code" in whatever language the LLMs had the best training data for.

    • RobotToaster 13 minutes ago
      I know Microsoft made a geometric optics package for it they apparently used for VR hardware.
    • ted_dunning 35 minutes ago
      There are open references to usage by

      ECMWF ASML Pumas JPMorgan Chase

      and many other companies.

      I use it routinely, but it isn't a company standard where I work.