[julia-users] Re: A grateful scientist

[Patrick Kofod Mogensen]

I'll get in the "Thank you!" line. I'm still learning every day, but I use 
Julia for pretty much everything (Economics Ph.D. student here). So yeah, 
thanks a lot - and a special thanks to Andreas Noack for transmitting the 
Julia-bug before leaving UCPH. 

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 4:30:26 AM UTC+1, Yakir Gagnon wrote:
>
> Hi Julia community and developers,
> I'm a postdoc researching color vision, biological optics, polarization 
> vision, and camouflage. I've always used Matlab in my research and made the 
> switch to Julia about two years ago. I just wanted to report, for what it's 
> worth, that as a researcher I think Julia is the best. I promote it 
> everywhere I think it's appropriate, and use it almost exclusively. 
> Just wanted to say a big fat thank you to all the developers and community 
> for creating this magnificence.
>
> THANK YOU! 
>

Re: [julia-users] Re: A grateful scientist

[John Gibson]

I'll join in here as well. For years I've seen the mess associated with 
existing languages like C, C++, and Fortran as a very substantial 
impediment to students developing professional-level expertise in 
scientific computation, and in fact I've shied away from trying to teach 
what I know, because there's so much tedious overhead. 

But all of a sudden, I have a language I feel good about teaching, which my 
students like learning, and which won't limit them in the long run. As 
gentle a learning curve as Matlab, as general-purpose as Python, as 
powerful as Lisp, and as fast as C. And free. It's a totally winning 
combination. 

Since attending JuliaCon2015 this summer I have transitioned my graduate 
numerical linear algebra course at U New Hampshire to Julia. I'll do 
undergrad numerical methods in Julia next fall, and over the next year or 
so I'll try to convince relevant departments that Julia belongs in our 
freshman/sophomore level intro to engineering computing courses. 

Many, many thanks to the Julia team for recognizing the need for a better 
language, and then for designing and implementing it so well. I'm really 
grateful.

John


On Friday, October 30, 2015 at 12:52:11 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>
> Thanks Eric! 
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:31 PM Eric Forgy  > wrote:
>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> I'm in the same boat as a grateful scientist/entrepreneur and thank all 
>> the Julia developers, but since we're at it, I want to say a special "Thank 
>> you" to YOU for all the work you've done on JuliaWeb. Requests.jl, in 
>> particular, is making my life much easier. It's become an invaluable tool 
>> for my team for testing our APIs (and I've learned a lot by watching the 
>> incremental improvements). We are still building up our Julia skills and 
>> hope we can start contributing back as well.
>>
>> On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 8:26:07 AM UTC+8, Jonathan Malmaud 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> As someone who volunteers my free time to developing Julia, it means a 
>>> lot to hear that. 
>>
>>

Re: [julia-users] Re: A grateful scientist

[Jonathan Malmaud]

Thanks Eric!

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:31 PM Eric Forgy  wrote:

> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I'm in the same boat as a grateful scientist/entrepreneur and thank all
> the Julia developers, but since we're at it, I want to say a special "Thank
> you" to YOU for all the work you've done on JuliaWeb. Requests.jl, in
> particular, is making my life much easier. It's become an invaluable tool
> for my team for testing our APIs (and I've learned a lot by watching the
> incremental improvements). We are still building up our Julia skills and
> hope we can start contributing back as well.
>
> On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 8:26:07 AM UTC+8, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>>
>> As someone who volunteers my free time to developing Julia, it means a
>> lot to hear that.
>
>

[julia-users] Re: A grateful scientist

[Eric Forgy]

Hi Jonathan,

I'm in the same boat as a grateful scientist/entrepreneur and thank all the 
Julia developers, but since we're at it, I want to say a special "Thank 
you" to YOU for all the work you've done on JuliaWeb. Requests.jl, in 
particular, is making my life much easier. It's become an invaluable tool 
for my team for testing our APIs (and I've learned a lot by watching the 
incremental improvements). We are still building up our Julia skills and 
hope we can start contributing back as well.

On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 8:26:07 AM UTC+8, Jonathan Malmaud wrote:
>
> As someone who volunteers my free time to developing Julia, it means a lot 
> to hear that. 

[julia-users] Re: A grateful scientist

[Andre Bieler]

I +1 on the thanks from scientist. 

I changed 90% of my data analysis scripts from Python to Julia and never 
looked back.
For what its worth: I have an upcoming paper in Nature on Thursday that of 
course credits the Julia language! :) (Its the least I could do)

It really made my research easier by being able to go through a lot of data 
in much shorter time than all of my Python scripts
could handle before!

Re: [julia-users] Re: A grateful scientist

[Stefan Karpinski]

Mentioning Julia and any Julia packages used for published work is greatly
appreciated!

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Andre Bieler 
wrote:

> I +1 on the thanks from scientist.
>
> I changed 90% of my data analysis scripts from Python to Julia and never
> looked back.
> For what its worth: I have an upcoming paper in Nature on Thursday that of
> course credits the Julia language! :) (Its the least I could do)
>
> It really made my research easier by being able to go through a lot of
> data in much shorter time than all of my Python scripts
> could handle before!
>

[julia-users] Re: A grateful scientist

[Yakir Gagnon]

Wow, I'm glad there's been such a positive response! I meant every word and 
more. I too have a publication coming up soon (albeit not in Nature -- 
which is beyond awesome) and Julia is referenced there. As it 
will probably be in every publication I have from now on.

Thanks again!

On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 10:26:07 AM UTC+10, Jonathan Malmaud 
wrote:
>
> As someone who volunteers my free time to developing Julia, it means a lot 
> to hear that. 

[julia-users] Re: A grateful scientist

[Christopher Fisher]

I work with mathematical models of cognition and switched to Julia from 
Matlab about a year and a half ago. Aside from the debugger (step,step in, 
etc.), I don't miss Matlab all. Once the statistical packages mature, I'll 
phase out R too. I think the language is shaping up quite well and the 
community has been very helpful for technical support. I'll be sure to cite 
Julia in future papers.

On Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 11:30:26 PM UTC-4, Yakir Gagnon wrote:
>
> Hi Julia community and developers,
> I'm a postdoc researching color vision, biological optics, polarization 
> vision, and camouflage. I've always used Matlab in my research and made the 
> switch to Julia about two years ago. I just wanted to report, for what it's 
> worth, that as a researcher I think Julia is the best. I promote it 
> everywhere I think it's appropriate, and use it almost exclusively. 
> Just wanted to say a big fat thank you to all the developers and community 
> for creating this magnificence.
>
> THANK YOU! 
>

[julia-users] Re: A grateful scientist

[Alireza Nejati]

I've been coding in julia so much lately that I actually think my brain 
might be forgetting the other languages I used to know!

On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 4:30:26 PM UTC+13, Yakir Gagnon wrote:
>
> Hi Julia community and developers,
> I'm a postdoc researching color vision, biological optics, polarization 
> vision, and camouflage. I've always used Matlab in my research and made the 
> switch to Julia about two years ago. I just wanted to report, for what it's 
> worth, that as a researcher I think Julia is the best. I promote it 
> everywhere I think it's appropriate, and use it almost exclusively. 
> Just wanted to say a big fat thank you to all the developers and community 
> for creating this magnificence.
>
> THANK YOU! 
>