The SimianQuant library provides a Fluent API on top of its symbolic engine to model and solve Initial Value Problems. This article demonstrates how it can be used to solve a reference problem in systems biology, the repressilator, and how the SimianQuant approach compares with alternatives like NumPy, SymPy and Octave.

Spire is a Scala library that implements number types and numeric abstractions. With close to 1500 stars on github (as of writing), it seems to be the library around which the community has coalesced for those applications. However there are issues with the implementation of specific datastructures.

Conventional approaches to team structure attempt to minimize the barriers within and among teams. The stated hypothesis is that fewer barriers increase the frequency with which ideas are shared, built upon, experimented and dropped, and that this leads to the global optimum. The unstated hypothesis is that the ideas shared would have been thought through and developed in terms of the broader context. This is clearly false, and unless the company institutes some sort of a barrier, it can get…