Comments on: FFT: Friedman + Fortran + Tricks http://brenocon.com/blog/2009/07/fft-friedman-fortran-tricks/ cognition, language, social systems; statistics, visualization, computation Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:11:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bob Carpenter http://brenocon.com/blog/2009/07/fft-friedman-fortran-tricks/#comment-8408 Bob Carpenter Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:01:48 +0000 http://anyall.org/blog/?p=602#comment-8408 I really like their prior vs. coefficient line graphs (as in their book). I’ve been thinking about implementing the coordinate descent algorithm ever since I looked over Genken, Lewis and Madigan’s Bayesian Regression package.

Another reason people still like Fortran is that it’s such a simple language that the loops are easy to automatically parallelize.

Somehwat counterintuitively, languages in the ML family are also super-fast at simple matrixes because of the ability of the compiler to statically optimize.

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