Re:Julia 1.0
by StefanKarpinski on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:00PM
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> I was watching live stream last night from the East coast and very impressed by the achievement by you scientists and grad students since 2012. https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5145
Thank you, that's very kind of you! To be fair, Jeff, Viral, Alan and I had many collective decades of industry experience interleaved with an equal amount of academia by the time we wrote that paper. And of course the academics are rather suspicious about just how academic we really are.
> We need more crazy meta programmers.
Hear, hear!
As a former physicist, I have been through the Numerical Recipes/F77 stage myself two decades ago. In the age of Big Data and Machine Learning, there are many ways to harvest the creativities in people who are not trained as professional engineers. Our software development mindset should be extended beyond the industrial "task oriented" products and platforms.
In the spirit of Turing machine and LISP where code is also data, we can even treat scientific computing ecosystems like Python/R/Julia etc. as models to capture creative scientific minds. It is AI at a high social level. The future is beyond our imagination.
We need more crazy meta programmers.