Thanks Viral,

Let me know if I can be of any help testing a newer version of Jupyter (if 
installing a newer version is feasible and not too time consuming). Or I could 
point my iPad to a test version, whatever is easiest.

As far as testing dedicated compute engines is concerned I am also very 
interested, not just for Stan, but more so for some components of item 3 in 
below’s postscript

Inspired by another utopia thread on this list, the dream here is to make this 
awesome tripleJ-some (Julia, Jupyter and Juliabox) a solid foundation for 
cloud-based EDx courses.

Regards,
Rob

> On May 16, 2016, at 11:23, Viral Shah <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps we need to update to a newer version of Jupyter for the arrow keys?
> 
> On the reliability front, Sheehan can you tell us what kind of instabilities 
> are you facing? We are quite keen to make this reliable, and generally there 
> are thousands of sessions every week. The sessions are retstricted for memory 
> and compute, and time out after 4 hours - so perhaps that is the instability 
> you may be seeing.
> 
> For serious computations, we are soon going to launch a service that gives 
> you dedicated compute machines (no sharing or multiplexing). Would be great 
> if you can try it out.
> 
> -viral
> 
> 
>> On 16-May-2016, at 11:28 AM, Rob J. Goedman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> My apologies. The remark on the arrow keys is not correct. I should have 
>> gone to try.jupyter.org before sending the email.
>> 
>> From that site the arrow keys on the iPad work fine!
>> 
>> Viral or Tanmay, could this be specific to JuliaBox?
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
>>> On May 16, 2016, at 09:05, Rob J. Goedman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sheehan,
>>> 
>>> Interesting link to computableapp.com. 
>>> 
>>> Have you ever seen the arrow keys work on IJulia or JuliaBox? I’ve 
>>> certainly seen them work in other apps, e.g. Textastic, just not in IJulia. 
>>> My guess is that the key codes have changed. Neither do they work on the 
>>> older bluetooth keyboard. This is more a Jupyter issue than an Julia issue 
>>> I would expect.
>>> 
>>> For serious computation JuliaBox is probably not the answer, but for less 
>>> demanding situations (classroom experiments, teaching Julia, exploratory 
>>> programming) it should work reliably. I wonder if we could confirm your 
>>> Amazon maintenance assumption as in July I’ll be traveling in Europe and 
>>> will certainly try it throughout the day. Could it also be network issues?
>>> 
>>> Rob
>>> 
>>>> On May 11, 2016, at 17:17, Sheehan Olver <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The arrows sometimes work for me…and sometimes not.    It’s too bad the 
>>>> native IPython app didn’t survive:
>>>> 
>>>>            http://computableapp.com
>>>> 
>>>> The biggest problem I have is that JuliaBox still doesn’t seem very 
>>>> reliable.  This may be since Australia is the middle of the night in the 
>>>> US, which Amazon may feel is an appropriate time to do server maintenance. 
>>>>   
>>>> 
>>>> I wonder if buying a personal Amazon Web Server is a better idea, 
>>>> especially for doing serious computation.
>>>> 
>>>> Sheehan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 12 May 2016, at 1:13 AM, Rob J. Goedman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, that definitely works.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I actually bought the iPad Pro + keyboard + pen to make JuliaBox better 
>>>>> usable on an iPad. And that certainly is the case for me, I can now try 
>>>>> Julia constructs while on the road. Just having easy access to 
>>>>> Shift-Return was key to me.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The combination of Juliabox + uploads from iCloud (or Dropbox or Google 
>>>>> drive) also is nice.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A minor inconvenience is that the 4 arrow keys on the Pro keyboard don’t 
>>>>> work, in those cases it’s ‘back to the pen’. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> It took me a while to discover for e.g. \lambda-Tab the Tap needs to be 
>>>>> Option-Tab. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rob
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 11, 2016, at 04:42, Sheehan Olver <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It works! I'm using the textmate mode
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/Julia.tmbundle
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 11 May 2016, at 9:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Textastic can use TextMate definitions: 
>>>>>>> http://www.textasticapp.com/v6/manual/lessons/How_can_I_add_my_own_syntax_definitions__themes_and_templates.html
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Koder, another main contender, doesn't let you add syntax highlighting 
>>>>>>> yet.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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