JOSS Review Suggestions

[bdice]

See #3

This PR attempts to resolve some of the suggestions from my review, along with a handful of typo fixes and similar edits.

Please feel free to accept or reject any of the changes in this PR. Some changes to benchmarks and Dockerfiles are slightly opinionated. If you want to reject any changes, you can just comment on the PR where you want to keep the current code, and revert the commits where those changes were made. (e.g. git revert 7a9840b) That will make it easier to track.

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• Fix typos in README.
• Fix typos in example usage.
• Use faster native Python benchmark.
• Try simplifying Dockerfile for faster installation.
• Speed up NumPy code by about a third.
• Small paper edits.
• Use nimble install --depsOnly.
• Fix typos in test suite

[RMeli]

Hi @amkrajewski, this PR looks very helpful to get openjournals/joss-reviews#6731 moving forward. Is there anything blocking its review and merge?

[amkrajewski]

@RMeli Thanks for the ping! I was waiting for Reviewer 3 before making any modifications (which I got last week). I am traveling right now, but I should be able to start working on revisions soon and finish them next week.

[amkrajewski]

Thank you, @bdice, for your thorough and impactful contributions in this PR, with attention to detail and performance optimizations. I very much appreciate these!

I will now re-benchmark everything, adjust the table in the paper, and get back to other points you've raised in #3

[bdice]

Glad it helped!