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Geoff Oxberry

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PhD, Chemical Engineering, MIT, 2013.

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Top Questions
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Recommendations for a usable, fast C++ matrix library?

linear-algebra software implicit-methods asked Dec 12 '11 at 4:37
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What are good ways to document scientific software?

software documentation asked Dec 10 '11 at 10:37
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How do I make sure that the results of my simulations and the results in my paper are always in sync?

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What tools or approaches are available to speed up code written in Python?

performance python asked Jun 12 '12 at 2:30
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How should I install a Fortran compiler on a Mac? (OS X 10.x, x >= 4)

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How should I fix my Homebrew installation after upgrading OS X?

osx homebrew asked Feb 8 '13 at 18:24
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What software is good to use for parallel debugging?

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What are the main differences between PETSc and Trilinos?

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What material should I include with a journal article (or post online) in order to make my computational research reproducible?

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When should I use C++ expression templates in computational science, and when should I *not* use them?

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Top Answers
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Recommendations for a usable, fast C++ matrix library?
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Is there a high quality nonlinear programming solver for Python?
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Functional Programming and Scientific Computing
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How should I install a Fortran compiler on a Mac? (OS X 10.x, x >= 4)
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Python vs FORTRAN
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Is it worthwhile to write unit tests for scientific research codes?
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How mature is the “Julia” scientific computing language project?
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Is there software that can autogenerate numerically-accurate floating point C routines from symbolic formulae?
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Is it a good idea to use vector<vector<double>> to form a matrix class for high performance scientific computing code?
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Software package for constrained optimization?
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What core skills should every computational scientist have?
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What are the advantages/disadvantages of interior point methods over simplex method for linear optimization?
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cost function: why use power of two ? abs(x - xhat) / x better?
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Which software and workflow is recommend for publication of scientific data and graphs?
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Understanding how Numpy does SVD
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Parallel optimization algorithms for a problem with very expensive objective function
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Minimizing the Sum of Absolute Deviation ($ {L}_{1} $ Distance)
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How do I calculate the numerical difference between two fields stored in two different VTK files with the same structure?
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Which algorithm is more accurate for computing the sum of a sorted array of numbers?
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Why should I renormalize physical variables?
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Soft Question: Where does Python fit into the picture?
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Efficient solution of mixed integer linear programs
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BFGS vs. Conjugate Gradient Method
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Constraints involving $\max$ in a linear program?
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What's the fastest software(open source) to solve mixed integer programming problem
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What is the fastest algorithm for computing the inverse matrix and its determinant for positive definite symmetric matrices?
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State of the Mac OS in Scientific Computing and HPC
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Updatable SVD implementation in Python, C, or Fortran?
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Drawbacks of Newton-Raphson approximation with approximate numerical derivative
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How to show a matrix is full rank?
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