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Here is a set of slides talking about parallel computation on several devices, including a GPU card, using Julia.

Notice: this was written quite some time ago (Julia version 1.0), so whatever I’ve come up here with may no longer be best practice (if it ever was). So: use at your own risk! 😉

The COVID-19 pandemic posed new challenges to teachers at all levels. In university teaching, we were relatively lucky because we could rely on new technologies like zoom and others to host virtual classes. In this post I’ll review my and my students’ experience over the period from September 2020 until December 2021 in this regard. What I have learned is applicable to both online and in-person teaching.

I am getting into estimating mixture models at the moment. In particular in the context of models of wage formation where unobserved heterogeneity stemming from both firm and worker side is often modeled with a mixture model. The main assumptions are that