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@peter_mcmahan@mas.to
2025-12-10 16:58:59

I rewrote a data analysis pipeline, moving it from #python to #julialang . I am now in love with the threading support in Julia.
The task is very parallelizable but each thread needs random read access to a tens-of-GB dataset. In Python (with multiprocessing, shared stores, etc) data bookkeeping was a nightmar…

A screenshot of a part of one row from `top` showing a julia process using 4388% CPU and 51% memory, with a running time of 3 weeks.
@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2025-10-08 13:55:05

RE: #Julialang is mentioned only once in the replies. Pretty close to hitting th…

@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2025-09-30 23:48:22

Oh FFS! #Brightspace is fucking up my #Julialang teaching materials for tomorrow by being too clever.
It can interpret latex code and show formula. Brilliant.
It just can't not do it, so my regular expression example of
r"\([0-9] \)") is showing up as below, a…

Code example 

r"[0-9]+" where the [0-9]+ is in Latex format, Computer Modern Roman font, instead of the r"\([0-9]+\)" required.