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Matthew Turk

Matthew Turk

10 Years of yt

Today is the 10th birthday of the yt source code repository. That’s nearly 30% of my days. I don’t get as much of a chance to contribute…

9 min readFeb 8, 2017

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10 Years of yt

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Matthew Turk

Astronomical Software in 2017 and Beyond

At the end of 2016, I took on the role of Chair of the Working Group for Astronomical Software (WGAS) in the American Astronomical Society…

5 min readJan 13, 2017

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Matthew Turk

The Loneliness of the Computational Scientist

One of the things I worked on in graduate school was how hydrogen atoms turned into hydrogen molecules, and how that affected how the first…

6 min readDec 29, 2016

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The Loneliness of the Computational Scientist

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Matthew Turk

Citations, credit, and the yt method paper

This is an edited and somewhat rewritten version of an email I sent to the yt steering committee a few months ago. At the time, I mentioned…

11 min readDec 14, 2016

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Foolishly Consistent Software Libraries

Greg Wilson is fond of pointing out that most (or all) programming languages don’t undergo A/B testing for usability. Decisions about how…

7 min readOct 25, 2016

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The Royal “We” in Scientific Software Development

Or: A challenge to myself (and maybe others) to change how we represent community software development

6 min readJul 21, 2016

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Matthew Turk

Matthew Turk

Assistant Professor in the iSchool at the University of Illinois, founder of the yt project. Views and opinions are my own.

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