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Electing a president

Nov 7, 2020 · 6 min read · voting linear-programming julia ·

Every four years (barring death or some other catastrophe), the USA goes through the periodic madness of a presidential election. Wild behaviour, inaccuracies, mud-slinging from both sides have been central since George Washington’s second term. And the entire business of voting is muddied by the Electoral College, the …

Fitting the SIR model of disease to data in Julia

Jan 15, 2020 · 3 min read · mathematics julia ·

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A few posts ago I showed how to do this in Python. Now it’s Julia’s turn. The data is the same: spread of influenza in a British boarding school with a population of 762. This was reported in the British Medical Journal on March 4, 1978, and you can read the original short article here. As before we use the SIR model, …

Speeds of Julia and Python

Dec 19, 2019 · 6 min read · programming python julia ·

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Introduction Python is of course one of the world’s currently most popular languages, and there are plenty of statistics to show it. Of all languages in current use, Python is one of the oldest (in the very quick time-scale of programming languages) dating from 1990 - only C and its variants are older. However, it …

Poles of inaccessibility

Dec 8, 2019 · 4 min read · image-processing julia ·

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Just recently there was a news item about a solo explorer being the first Australian to reach the Antarctic “Pole of Inaccessibility”. Such a Pole is usually defined as that place on a continent that is furthest from the sea. The South Pole is about 1300km from the nearest open sea, and can be reached by specially …