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Julia DispatchThis month in Julia world 2025-04 with Chris & GuillaumeChris and Guillaume discuss the contents of the "This month in Julia world - 2025-08". We cover the upcoming JuliaCon Local Paris event, Julia 1.12 beta release updates, major compiler improvements with JuliaLowering.jl, performance optimization discoveries, and ecosystem growth with new packages like TestPicker.jl, BorrowChecker.jl, and AI integration tools. We also dive deep into technical discussions about optional modules, static arrays, and the ongoing focus on reducing latency across the Julia ecosystem.This month in Julia world - 2025-08: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/this-month-in-julia-world-2025-04/128859Recorded...
2025-08-121h 03Julia DispatchJulia Health with Jacob ZelkoGood morning, good evening, good night, wherever you are in the world! Today we welcome Jacob Zelko, who takes us on a fascinating journey from his early days as a biomedical engineering student through his work at the CDC during the COVID-19 pandemic, and into his current exploration of applied category theory. Jacob shares how his pandemic response work led him to seek more fundamental approaches to public health problems, ultimately discovering category theory as a potential framework for composing different models and analyses. We also dive into his role as leader of the Julia Health Organization, his experience...
2025-08-051h 39Julia DispatchJulia Dispatch Podcast: March 2025 Newsletter Deep Dive with Chris Rackauckas & Stefan KrastanovJoin Chris Rackauckas and Stefan Krastanov as they explore the latest developments in the Julia programming language ecosystem from the March 2025 "This Month in Julia World" newsletter.Link to the newsletter: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/this-month-in-julia-world-2025-03/127821🔥 Key Topics Covered:Julia 1.12 Beta 1: Major features including experimental --trim for smaller binaries, stackless compiler improvements, and new threading defaultsBLAS Lazy Loading: Groundbreaking changes to reduce startup time and memory consumption by loading linear algebra libraries on-demandREPL Improvements: Complete overhaul of auto-completion using the new Julia syntax parser, fixing numerous long-standing bugsPerformance Enhancements: Invalidation reduction efforts, faster code coverage, and compiler opt...
2025-06-2843 minJulia DispatchThis month in Julia world newsletter with Stefan KrastanovToday, we're joined by Stefan Krastanov who is not only the main developer of QuantumClifford.jl, but also the author of the "This month in Julia world" newsletter. Stefan shares with us what passions him about physics, the combination of mathematical concepts and hands-on signal processing and what attracted him to Julia. And he confides in us how the Julia newsletter is a productive form of procrastination, how his own appreciation and understanding grew from being the newsletter editor, and how important it is to improve the communication and documentation to make a technology appealing, in particular to new...
2025-05-141h 02Julia DispatchJulia Gender Inclusive and DEI with Firoozeh Dastur, Leticia Madureira, and Skylar GeringWe're back from our surprising hiatus with a very exciting round: Firoozeh, Leticia and Skylar. Their Julia journeys crossed in their engagement with the Julia Gender Inclusive and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives. We briefly talk about their personal stories before delving into the inclusiveness topic. We discuss the impression and perspective of female participants at a so far male-dominated JuliaCon. The ladies share with us all the activities they have been involved in. And we dive into what problem's they perceive and how everybody in the community can help make Julia a more inclusive community.
2025-05-071h 12Julia DispatchThis month in Julia world 2025-02 with the Julia Dispatch hostsToday, we start a new series. Chris and Michael discuss the contents of the "This month in Julia world - 2025-02". We cover enhancements to Revise.jl, the introduction of JET.jl as a new language server, advancements in compiling Julia for embedded systems, challenges with multi-threading, improvements in the package manager, and the refactoring of the Julia compiler.We plan to make this a regular feature. Please let us know what you think about the format.This month in Julia world - 2025-02: https://discourse.julialang.org/t...
2025-04-221h 00Julia DispatchPlots.jl with Simon ChristToday we're joined by Simon Christ who is "the computer guy in a biological department". Moving from rock solid C, advancing to C++, he discovered Julia when he had been frustrated enough by his prior programming experiences. Simon has fixed the PGF backend for Plots.jl and as time goes by found himself among the current project leads. Simon shares with us his experience about maturing and maintaining a foundational package in the ecosystem and why now it's the right time to work on a major version update. We also talk about the Plots.jl publication, the importance of...
2025-04-081h 02Julia DispatchJulia for Earth Sciences and Climate Modeling Panel DiscussionThis is a special episode of the Julia Dispatch podcast where we have a panel discussion with climate scientists and Earth observation specialists to talk about Julia. In this episode we talk with a litany of experts in climate modeling, satellite data analysis, and data visualization a multitude of questions like: what inroads has Julia made into the climate sciences community? What are Julia's strengths in this domain? What are the weaknesses and how are they looking to be addressed? What is the current state of climate models being built in Julia and how are they performing against Fortran...
2025-02-201h 10Julia DispatchJulGame with Kyle ConelWe start the year with a first: first time Chris and Michael meet a stranger through Julia Dispatch. Today, we have Kyle Conel on the show who is the main developer of the game engine JulGame. Kyle shares with us how an early passion about video games has made him switch majors in college to become a software developer. He talks about how he's learning by doing, how you can start in Julia with an object-oriented mind set and only later take full advantage of the multiple dispatch paradigm, and his plans to (eventually) publish a game developed in...
2025-01-141h 15Julia DispatchTidier.jl with Karandeep SinghIt's our final episode-of this year. Today we are joined by Dr. Karandeep Singh who shares his story from gamer to doctor and how the realization "You can continue writing code-just do it in whatever field you go into" has led him to his current role. He then introduces us to the Tidyverse and Tidier.jl, tells us a bit about its origin story and how Tidier.jl being available in Julia might be another good reason to give Julia a try. And he explains how the features of Julia have given Tidier.jl a very Julian flavor.
2024-12-301h 22Julia DispatchAutomatic differentiation with Guillaume DalleToday, we're especially grateful for Guillaume's patience with us (it's pronounced Gi-yohm!). He shares his story going from beginner to maintainer in no time, discusses why it's so important to help each other without judgement, and reveals the surprising connection between Modern Julia Workflows and DifferentiationInterface.jl. We had a great time together chatting about open source software, and we're sure you will, too!
Guillaume Dalle specializes in machine learning and optimization. He is currently finishing his postdoc at EPFL and will soon become a permanent researcher at École des Ponts, near Paris. His P...
2024-12-141h 19Julia DispatchPluto.jl with Panagiotis GeorgakopoulosIn this episode, we sit down with Παναγιώτης Γεωργακόπουλος. We discuss the evolution of the Pluto project and the user experience philosophy behind it. Παναγιώτης shares with us some of the technical and design challenges that come with it, but also how far reaching some of these principles can be. And we discuss, how open source projects and community development can come together and reinforce each other.
Παναγιώτης Γεωργακόπουλος is a software engineer hailing from Athens, Greece. In his own words: "I've been a software engineer, a business analyst, a consultant, a data entry intern, a waiter and a sailor." In 2020, he has started to contribute to the Plut...
2024-11-291h 28Julia DispatchStatic Compilation of Julia with Jeff BezansonToday, we talk with someone who might or might not be the man himself, but is definitely one of the co-creators of the Julia programming language: Jeff Bezanson. Jeff shares with us some of the origin story of Julia and how multiple dispatch found its way into the language. Then, we dig a bit deeper into the recent advancements of static compilation of Julia. Jeff explains why we had to wait so long, what the difficult design decisions have been, and the additional hurdles that had to be cleared.
Jeff Bezanson is one of the reasons this...
2024-11-151h 01Julia DispatchA GSoC project in Symbolics.jl with Alexander Demin and Yassin ElBedwihyWelcome back, friends! Today, we exchange with Alex and Yassin about their Google Summer of Code project working on Symbolics.jl. They tell us their road to Julia and to their joint Google Summer of Code project, more specifically. They discuss the motivation behind the project, the challenges they faced, and the progress they made. They also touch on the importance of open-source code and the future of symbolic computation in Julia. They also discuss the experience of remote collaboration and the future of Symbolics.jl.
Alexander Demin is a graduate student at École Polytechnique in Paris. H...
2024-11-021h 04Julia DispatchJulia Developer Experience with Tim HolyHello, world! In this first episode, we sit down with Dr. Tim Holy. He shares with us his origin story: how he has become an early Julia adopter, how Revise.jl and package pre-compilation was born and how we can create tools that help Julia developers to write high-quality code.
Tim Holy is the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In the Julia community, he is probably best known for his work on Revise.jl (>1k stars on Github) and for the...
2024-10-161h 03
Past, Present and FutureWhat is scientific machine learning? With guest Chris RackauckasWhat is scientific machine learning? What is Julia, a new programming language?
Our guest is Chris Rackauckas, a VP of Modeling and Simulation at JuliaHu, a Research Affiliate at MIT and Director of Scientific Research at Pumas-AI.
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2023-10-1153 min
Console DevToolsCreating Julia, with Jeff Bezanson (JuliaHub) - S04E09In this episode, we speak with Jeff Bezanson, one of the co-creators of the Julia programming language and the CTO of JuliaHub. We start with the history of Julia and why it took a while to take off, the key principles behind the language, how it provides the speed of C with the ease of Python, and what it's been like running such a large open-source project. He sheds light on the original motivation for Julia, the process of creating it, and its involvement in AI.Hosted by David Mytton (Console) and Jean Yang (Akita Software).
2023-06-2231 min
Talk JuliaEpisode 19: Is Julia Better Than JAX For Machine Learning?David and Randy respond to an article that makes the case for JAX over Julia for machine learning, particularly when applied to solving differential equations.
David also shares a series of workshops hosted by the Julia Gender Inclusive community, as well as a new package by Elias Carvalho for creating truth tables from Julia expressions, and Randy explores a YouTube series and set of Pluto notebooks all about partially observable Markov processes.
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2022-05-1648 min
Random WalksPeregrination of a raconteur through maths, computing, and life with Chris Rackauckas (MIT)In this episode, I converse with Dr. Christopher Rackauckas, the Research Affiliate and Co-PI of the Julia Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of Modeling and Simulation at Julia Computing and Creator / Lead Developer of JuliaSim, Director of Scientific Research at Pumas-AI and Creator / Lead Developer of Pumas, and Lead Developer of the SciML Open Source Software Organization. As an undergraduate at Oberlin College, Chris was awarded the NSF S-STEM scholarship and the Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award by the American Crystallographic Association, an award usually given for PhD dissertations, for his work on 3+1 dimensional incommensurate...
2021-12-241h 19
The Engineered-Mind Podcast | Engineering, AI & TechnologyPhysics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) - Chris Rackauckas | Podcast #42Chris Rackauckas is an Applied Mathematics Instructor at MIT, a Senior Research Analyst in the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and the Director of Scientific Research at Pumas-AI. He is the lead developer of the SciML open source scientific machine learning organization which develops widely used software for scientific modeling and inference. Chris' work on high performance differential equation solving is the centerpiece accelerating many applications from the MIT-CalTech CLiMA climate modeling initiative to the SIAM DSWeb award winning DynamicalSystems.jl toolbox. Chris is also the lead developer of Pumas, the foundational software of Pumas-AI for nonlinear mixed e...
2021-03-2150 min