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0 pointsotoburb5y ago0 comments

>>But if you're under pressure to build lots of small, partially documented, constantly changing parts every day, you might be better off using more flexible equipment and materials (balsa wood, bailing wire, masking tape, etc.) to get the job done, even if the result will be messier and more prone to breaking.

Python & Deno/Node fit the bill for the latter category. Would you consider Julia in the former or latter category for ML use-cases?

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cs7025y ago

For ML/scientific computing, it can fulfill both roles, I'd say. Julia looks about as flexible and easy to use as Python, R, and matlab for experimenting and iterating quickly with throwaway code, and superior to those languages in every other important dimension except one: it lacks Python's gigantic ecosystem.

ChrisRackauckas5y ago

Julia has a much larger ecosystem in terms of things like numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, and differentiable programming. How do you use block banded Jacobians inside of ODE solvers? Python's ML ecosystems just barely got non-stiff methods, so advanced accelerations are fairly far away, whereas these are things that have worked with Julia's ML solvers for a long time now.

cs7025y ago

Before responding, first let me say thank you for all the work you have done and continue to do. Also as I wrote above, I view Julia as superior to Python in every other way. :-)

By "ecosystem" I mean much more. PyPi currently offers around a quarter million Python packages, versus thousands for Julia. Github code and activity using Python is also currently around three orders of magnitude greater than for Julia. Python is currently the fourth most popular language on Stack Overflow (after JS, HTML, and SQL). It's a gigantic ecosystem that has evolved over three decades.

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Python & Deno/Node fit the bill for the latter category. Would you consider Julia in the former or latter category for ML use-cases?

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cs7025y ago

ChrisRackauckas5y ago

cs7025y ago

Before responding, first let me say thank you for all the work you have done and continue to do. Also as I wrote above, I view Julia as superior to Python in every other way. :-)

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