October 10, 2016 at 04:13AM

Today I Learned: 1) Concentrated calcium chloride tastes... bad. Like, burning chemical bad. Like "this should not be in contact with living tissue" bad. Don't do it. 2) If you try to make cheese using a standard feta cheese kit, but with soy milk instead of real milk, it doesn't curdify. It turns into a rather thick, pudding-like mix that's kind of halfway to setting... but it doesn't get there. Next time, I will try adding some calcium chloride, which supposedly helps harden cheeses if you put it in at the right time (I didn't). 3) Numba, a just-in-time compiler package for Python functions, has a lot of limitations. It can compile classes, but only if you give it a bunch of type information about what kinds of inputs the class is going to get, and it doesn't support all of the features of the compiler. It also can't compile methods of objects -- only free-standing functions. Even then, it's a bit tetchy. I think it's back to Cython with me if I want to get this code to run much faster....