ScottPJones uses it for string processing, and I have seen him comment on hackernews a few times. He's a big advocate for using it for things other than crunching numbers. For scripts, the JIT overhead has gotten a lot…
I know it is not the default, but this package has no overhead over the default arrays according to recent benchmarks, and provides 0-indexed arrays: https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl I confess, not being…
What do you have in mind for "outside the lines"? Gaming? I've found the opposite. I'm a grad student, and my department assigned me to a computer with Windows 7. I found it incredibly counter-intuitive and difficult to…
Reminds me of Brian Wansink, the Cornell professor who was a "world-renowned eating expert for over 25 years". When statisticians finally started looking at his lab's work, they noticed absolutely extraordinary amounts…
Your "3" is a Bayesian view. Specifically, from the Jaynesian school, which views probability as ignorance. When we can't calculate which of those world's we're in, we express our remaining uncertainty with probability.…
I think Julia is a great example. It also uses a "world-age" for function redefinitions, like another commenter suggested, to put the burden on redefinitions rather than than using runtime deoptimizations. Before…
ScottPJones uses it for string processing, and I have seen him comment on hackernews a few times. He's a big advocate for using it for things other than crunching numbers. For scripts, the JIT overhead has gotten a lot…
I know it is not the default, but this package has no overhead over the default arrays according to recent benchmarks, and provides 0-indexed arrays: https://github.com/JuliaArrays/OffsetArrays.jl I confess, not being…
What do you have in mind for "outside the lines"? Gaming? I've found the opposite. I'm a grad student, and my department assigned me to a computer with Windows 7. I found it incredibly counter-intuitive and difficult to…
Reminds me of Brian Wansink, the Cornell professor who was a "world-renowned eating expert for over 25 years". When statisticians finally started looking at his lab's work, they noticed absolutely extraordinary amounts…
Your "3" is a Bayesian view. Specifically, from the Jaynesian school, which views probability as ignorance. When we can't calculate which of those world's we're in, we express our remaining uncertainty with probability.…
I think Julia is a great example. It also uses a "world-age" for function redefinitions, like another commenter suggested, to put the burden on redefinitions rather than than using runtime deoptimizations. Before…