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I’m Dion, a scientific programmer, programming scientist, open source developer, and tech enthusiast. I develop systems that help humans understand and navigate the physical world.

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Latest articles

2026-03-10

Where’d all the time go

2026-01-19

My Personal Philosophy

2025-04-02

The totally reasonable effectiveness of execution-driven science

2021-12-03

Supercharged high-resolution ocean simulation with JAX

2021-09-23

Bayesian histograms for rare event classification

2021-09-10

Creating a better science conference poster

2021-04-20

Higher-level geophysical modelling

2021-04-01

Learning to play Yahtzee with Advantage Actor-Critic (A2C)

2016-11-30

Suck-less scientific Python — Part 3: Efficient evolution models

2016-11-29

Suck-less scientific Python — Part 2: Efficient number-crunching

2016-11-28

Suck-less scientific Python — Part 1: Reading and writing data

2016-03-27

Beautiful data visualization in Python with Matplotlib

2016-03-26

Why you should not be afraid of terrorism

2015-07-17

Creating a science conference poster with Inkscape

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