## Latest Posts:

• Apr, 2019
• Apr 14, 2019Numba - @vectorize and @guvectorize
• In this post, I will explain how to use the @vectorize and @guvectorize decorator from Numba. You can use the former if you want to write a function which extrapolates from scalars to elements of arrays and the latter for a function which extrapolates from arrays to arrays of higher dimensions.

• Mar, 2019
• Mar 25, 2019Numpy - Views vs. Copies
• In one of my recent projects, I needed to accelarate a discrete choice dynamic programming model. After I changed a part of the implementation, the program was indeed faster. But, the most expensive operation according to profiling with snakeviz was now ~:0(<method 'copy' of 'numpy.ndarray' objects>). I was puzzled. I was sure that there was no use of np.copy() at all. After reading some StackOverflow posts and blog entries, it became clear that some operations and more importantly indexing methods return copies instead of views. The difference between the two is that views refer to the same underlying data in memory whereas a copy creates a new object. The disadvantages of a copy are:

• takes more time
• takes more memory

But, what operations return copies?