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Economic researchers can choose between four general purpose programming languages – Julia, MATLAB, Python, and R. This column evaluates the four, com…
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How far into the future should we be able to execute computer code written today? Next month, next year next decade or next century? My choice of a la…
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There are a million ways to measure financial risk, and if one wants to calculate global risk, it requires a truly heroic set of assumptions. But it's…
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The new Apple M1 processor has gotten excellent reviews for speed. Getting curious, I measured its speed on pure c code, latex and R and compared it t…
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The most widely used programming languages for economic research are Julia, Matlab, Python and R. This column uses three criteria to compare the langu…
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Amazon AWS has been recommending ARM Graviton2 as a cost-effective alternative to Intel/AMD instances. So I tried it out.
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I just tried the same code in R's data.tables and Julia's DataFrames, and the results are a bit surprising.
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Julia, MATLAB, Python and R are among the most commonly used numerical programming languages by economic researchers. In this post, Jon Danielsson and…
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I really want to like Julia. She promises to solve all the frustrations with other numerical languages.
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