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Jean-Christophe Loiseau
Personal blog · loiseaujc.github.io/postsmathprogrammingscience
Jean-Christophe Loiseau's personal blog at loiseaujc.github.io covers math, programming and science. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of numerical linear algebra?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on numerical linear algebra and Fortran. One linked post is a follow-up, "Jacobi method: From a naive implementation to a modern Fortran multithreaded one". Comments only cite it.
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Most-linked posts?
- Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of numerical linear algebra?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-23
What Hacker News says?
A follow-up post is https://loiseaujc.github.io/posts/blog-title/jacobi_experime... "Jacobi method: From a naïve implementation to a modern Fortran multithreaded one".
Comment linking /posts/blog-title/jacobi_experiments.html
on “Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of numerical linear algebra?”Submitted Is Fortran better than Python for teaching basics of numerical linear algebra? as a story · 105 points
HN discussionYes; I am seriously thinking of getting the "Modern Fortran Explained" book ( https://academic.oup.com/book/56095 ). Modern Fortran has everything (Procedural, OO, Functional, Multithreading, Parallel etc. features) that all modern languages have. I would say it is no longer "just" for numerical computing. Excellent libraries/ecosystem, a well supported and stable language, fantastic optimization right out of the bo…
Comment linking /posts/blog-title/fortran_vs_python.html
on “Learning Fortran (2024)”Submitted Measuring Gauss-Seidel loop-carried dependency and fixing it via loop unrolling as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gauss-Seidel is faster than Jacobi. Or is it? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Roofline analysis of Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel stencil kernels in Fortran as a story · 1 points
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