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5/11/2025 13:22/08/2022 07:32 Practical Julia in Russian: I recently learned that my Julia book will be translated into Russian for distribution in the Kazakhstan / Georgia region.
4/11/2025 09:28 Julia 1.12 brings progress on standalone binaries and more: My article about Julia 1.12 appeared today in LWN. This free link is a favor to my readers. Please consider subscribing to this fine publication.
1/11/2025 13:08 Klein bottles and nuclear fusion: Some old math finds an unexpected application.
1/11/2025 10:10 Typst: How to create accessible PDFs from the start
26/10/2025 13:54 Responses: I agree with Jeremy Keith that websites commenting on other websites is far better than “social media”, and am sad about what could have been.
24/10/2025 14:32 Typst 0.14: Now accessible: Version 0.14 of Typst already shows impressive progress over the previous release, which I reviewed last month.
22/10/2025 11:48 Emmy Noether Can’t Get a Break
20/10/2025 11:23 Dmitri Tymoczko on the Mathematics Behind Music: Sean Carroll talks to Dmitri Tymoczko about his mathematical descriptions of music. I first encountered Tymoczko and his intriguing scholarship when I reported on the 2016 AAAS conference for Ars Technica.
10/10/2025 18:30 Julia 1.12: New Features and Updates: A useful explanation of a few of the new features in Julia v1.12.
8/10/2025 13:48 Coattails: Don’t say “AI” — say what you mean, if you indeed know what you mean. But this article has more than that: the author has noticed an interesting development in terminology.
8/10/2025 13:05 I didn’t bring my son to a museum to look at screens: Hear, hear. My thoughts as well when visiting so many museums.
5/10/2025 13:41 Why I Choose Email Over Messaging: I’m with him.
2/10/2025 19:04 LuaNova.jl: Embed Lua in Julia: “a lightweight Julia package that makes it easy to embed a Lua interpreter in Julia and expose Julia functions, methods, and structs directly to Lua scripts.” When compiling to standalone binaries becomes mature, this should be especially useful in all sorts of end products such as games.
1/10/2025 11:38 MATLAB vs Julia: Top Choice for Renewable Energy?: A case study in modeling the turbulent wake behind a wind turbine, comparing MATLAB with Julia. The authors conclude that Julia is vastly superior in performance and ease of use.
30/9/2025 13:23 Creating Web Applications with Julia: Digital Ocean has reprinted my article from ADMIN magazine as part of their Tutorial series, with almost no editorial changes.
25/9/2025 8:22 Emmy Noether: The Math Whiz Who Helped Einstein: Investor’s Business Daily interviewed me for this article about Emmy Noether.
17/09/2025 11:31 Typst: a possible LaTeX replacement: My article appeared today in LWN. I test the Typst typesetting system and compare it with LaTeX.
17/9/2025 11:28 This Frustrated New York Pedestrian Calls Out Bad Walkers: My soulmate.
16/09/2025 10:50 Hacker News Minus AI Hype
10/9/2025 13:50 The argument against the existence of a Theory of Everything: All “theories of everything” posit entities or symmetries that are not part of our observable universe, often contradicting well-established empirical reality.
