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Viral Shah

Co-Founder and CEO, JuliaHub · 1 appearance on the record.

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Viral Shah is a computer scientist and the co-founder and CEO of JuliaHub. He is a co-creator of the Julia programming language and co-authored the book Rebooting India.

8statements → 5claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 4.12/5average certainty → 1.88/5average debate potential →

1 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 1 opinion · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Viral argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Shah: The New York Fed uses Julia to model the US economy
“The New York Fed uses Julia to model the US economy”
Viral Shah Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 11:42 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Shah: Central Bank of Brazil manages $1 trillion assets using Julia
“The Brazilian National Bank uses Julia to manage all of its trillion dollars in assets.”
Viral Shah Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 14:12 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing

How they sound: speaking style how? →

261 words/min while actually speaking · 40.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Viral Shah: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,397 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Viral Shah said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shah: Julia is the only non-C language with native CUDA codegen
“Apart from CUDA and C, the toolkits that NVIDIA puts out, Julia is the only other, you know, widely used language that has native CUDA code gen.”
Viral Shah Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 12:14 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
Opinion
Shah: Julia's JuMP framework beats any commercial optimization system
“And it's by far better than any commercial system out there”
Viral Shah Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 15:28 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
Insight
Shah: Consulting is not a viable open-source business model
“Consulting is a way to build an open source business, but it's obviously not because you don't want your core devs to be consulting when you really need to be building the product.”
Viral Shah Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 16:57 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
Insight
Shah: Open-core monetization fails by alienating the user community
“Open core models don't work very well because the community that was, you know sort of going with you starts hating you because all the good stuff is not there anymore.”
Viral Shah Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 17:07 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
Assertion Contradicted
Shah: Central Bank of Brazil manages $1 trillion assets using Julia
“The Brazilian National Bank uses Julia to manage all of its trillion dollars in assets.”
Viral Shah Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 14:12 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shah: Julia programming language has surpassed 1.2 million downloads
“We've had over 1.2 million downloads until today, even though the research is anchored at MIT.”
Viral Shah Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 10:29 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
Assertion Supported
Shah: The New York Fed uses Julia to model the US economy
“The New York Fed uses Julia to model the US economy”
Viral Shah Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 11:42 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
Assertion Partly supported
Shah: Aviva uses Julia for all Solvency II regulatory reporting
“Aviva, one of the largest insurers in Europe, uses Julia for all of their regulatory reporting around solvency too.”
Viral Shah Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 14:03 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing Sep 28, 2017 11m
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