Episode 77: Julia

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Intro

Classic Computer Science

News/Links

• Microsoft Releases AI Training
• https://aischool.microsoft.com/learning-paths
• Belgium declares loot boxes gambling and therefore illegal
• https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-04-25-now-belgium-declares-loot-boxes-gambling-and-therefore-illegal
• Taxonomy of Technical Debt
• https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt
• Ubuntu 18.04 is available
• https://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/04/26/ubuntu-18-04-lts-optimised-for-security-multi-cloud-containers-ai

Book of the Show

• Jason:
• Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work) in Words and Pictures
• https://amzn.to/2HuBMwu
• Patrick: 
  • Black Prism
  • https://amzn.to/2HsqqsK

Tool of the Show

• Jason: Brutal Doom http://www.moddb.com/mods/brutal-doom
• Patrick: YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

Julia (51:10)

• Scientific Programming
• Typically slow interpreter, but very fast instructions
• Optimized instructions
• BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra System) library
• FFTW (Fastest Fourier Transform in the West)
• OpenMP
• IDE with plotting, visualization support
• MATLAB IDE
• Jupyter/ipython
• Top Features
• Async (check episode 41 for details)
• Native multiprocessor and distributed support
• Completely free and open source (better than Java)
• Compiled
• 2017 Used for scientific calculation that reached 1.54 petaflops
• C, C++, Fortran are only other high level languages to be used at 1+ petaflops so far