diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c0becc5..597ad82 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ Here you can see the full list of changes between each viktor release.
 Version 0.3.0
 -------------
 
+Released on June 27th 2016
+
 - Dropped dependency on Yeppp! and embedded a re-worked simdstat.
 - Removed 'StridedVector.sumSq' in favour of 'dot'.
 - Switched to balanced summation in pure-Kotlin versions of
diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/org/jetbrains/bio/viktor/StridedVector.kt b/src/main/kotlin/org/jetbrains/bio/viktor/StridedVector.kt
index 6af62c3..209cbc9 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/org/jetbrains/bio/viktor/StridedVector.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/org/jetbrains/bio/viktor/StridedVector.kt
@@ -323,11 +323,7 @@ open class StridedVector internal constructor(
         return Math.log(acc.result()) + offset
     }
 
-    infix fun logAddExp(other: StridedVector): StridedVector {
-        val v = copy()
-        v.logAddExp(other, v)
-        return v
-    }
+    infix fun logAddExp(other: StridedVector) = copy().apply { logAddExp(other, this) }
 
     open fun logAddExp(other: StridedVector, dst: StridedVector) {
         checkSize(other)