Thanks Carlos, This is pretty interesting and I enjoyed reading through your ensemble code. I also really like the side-by-side comparisons. A site which could provide many of these with a clear layout could be pretty useful (and convincing) for those of us coming from R/python/matlab.
(on a side note, what did you make your slides with?) On Monday, April 7, 2014 11:04:10 AM UTC-5, Carlos Becker wrote: > > Hi all, > > just to let you know that I gave a presentation two weeks ago about Julia, > and the slides are available online > here<https://sites.google.com/site/carlosbecker/a-few-notes/julia-intro.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1> > , > together with an ijulia > notebook<https://sites.google.com/site/carlosbecker/a-few-notes/julia-intro.ipynb?attredirects=0&d=1> > > (pdf<https://sites.google.com/site/carlosbecker/a-few-notes/slides-rfandboosting.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1> > ) > > I found an example from Tim Salimans very interesting, where the Julia > version is faster than even the equivalent C++ code *when using GSL*(because > for some reason random sampling in GSL is slower than Julia's) > You can find the example in the link above. > > I also found an interesting tutorial that may be worth adding to > julialang.org: http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/julia/ > > > Cheers. >
