some Julia milestones which happened today

[dmm]

JuliaCon tells me it has accepted my virtual poster proposal (about interpretation of images as matrices and visualizing the matrix multiplication of those matrices).

Also, Julia Flux is now successfully computing gradients on my compositions of matrix transformations, and has successfully solved an inverse problem for me for the first time using gradient descent.

I started to migrate from Python and PyTorch in the early 2020, and now it's probably time to say officially (for example, in a resume) that Julia is my first programming language, and Julia Flux is my first machine learning framework (if one wants to sort by familiarity). This will also be a milestone: saying that Python is no longer my first language, and PyTorch is no longer my preferred machine learning framework.

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[juan_gandhi]

Cool!

[dmm]

I am excited about this too, yes :-)

Everything seems to come together...

[dmm]

(If one wants to think in terms of looking for a job, it would probably be wise to keep Python and PyTorch at #1.

Python is one of a handful of most popular languages, and PyTorch is the most popular machine learning framework, whereas Julia is on the level of Scala at best at the moment, in terms of popularity.

But if I don't not care much about a job in general, and only would take a job which strongly resonates with my current preferences, then this resume change might help.)

[dmm]

(So I did go ahead and changed my resume in this way - Julia is #1 in my programming languages, and Julia Flux is #1 in my machine learning frameworks.)

[dmm]

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