I look forward to hearing how people are using Julius for finance on this discussion board. I’m a finance professor at Rice University. I teach MBA students, PhD students, and Masters of Data Science students. I use Julius to some extent in all of my classes, but I use it primarily in a course called AI-Assisted Financial Analysis that I created in Spring 2024. We use Julius in place of Excel or alongside Excel for some traditional finance topics (capital budgeting, mean-variance optimization), and we also use Julius for some things that are not traditionally finance topics but which are now within the reach of MBA students, including building Streamlit apps. I started a blog to discuss some of the things I learned using Julius for the course (kerryback.substack.com). I look forward to some interesting discussions here.
Thank you for sharing your Substack Kerry! Really cool that you talk about building apps using Julius (https://costofequity.koyeb.app/) – makes sense that students want to build projects for their portfolios for future employers!
Curious why you choose Julius over Replit for app development?
I emphasized to students that they should get code that they are sure works (by going through small examples or just reading the code if possible) and then ask Julius to wrap it in a streamlit app. As you know, the streamlit code is very light, so it’s easy for students to see that the same code they saw before is being used in the app, whereas the HTML and CSS that Replit writes would be overwhelming to my students. I did show them a Replit app, but I didn’t ask them to build one. Also, Julius + Replit would be two subscriptions ,and if it is just one or the other then Julius is much better for my course.