This is still a work in progress, but ahead of JuliaCon I'd like to 
announce JuliaDiff, a github organization and website 
(http://www.juliadiff.org/) for packages related to computing derivatives. 
This includes packages based on automatic differentiation. If you've never 
heard of AD, check out the intro paragraph on the website. This is a field 
where I believe the technical features of Julia really make it easier than 
ever before to implement advanced techniques efficiently and (mostly) 
transparently to the user, see, for example, the autodiff keyword in Optim 
which enables computation of exact gradients of user-provided "black box" 
functions. I'm looking forward to continued development, collaboration, and 
contributions to JuliaDiff. Thanks to Theodore Papamarkou for the impetus 
in creating this organization.

Miles

P.S. We're accepting logo submissions.

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