[julia-users] Julia talk video

2015-10-22 Thread Jason Grout
Hi everyone, I just posted up a video of Spencer Lyon's PyData NYC meetup talk on Julia: https://youtu.be/mHr-cEGqiuw?t=56m14s I thought it was a great talk. Spencer also talked about QuantEcon (though with a slant towards the python half of the project, since it was a pydata meetup). See the

[julia-users] Re: WebGL with Julia?

2015-06-23 Thread Jason Grout
You might have a look at pythreejs if you're also interested in python solutions. Pythreejs exposes much of the three.js webgl library as interactive IPython notebook widgets. So basically, you get interactive three.js, controllable from python in the IPython notebook. https://github.com/jaso

Re: [julia-users] pathtracer in julia still 3x slower than python

2014-05-20 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/19/14, 20:14, mike c wrote: I"m having my first look at julia and translated a pathtracer written in python into julia. (A pathtracer is a kind of raytracer) The translation was relatively painless, and I've mimicked the python classes that I lost by using julia's compound types. Code is h

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/19/14, 10:52, Jason Grout wrote: (see http://sagecell.sagemath.org/?q=vtjadv for an example of a point tracking the mouse on a sphere) Sorry; the correct link for the example is http://sagecell.sagemath.org/?q=yiarsu Thanks, Jason

Re: [julia-users] GSOC 3D Visualizations plotting API - Make a wish!

2014-05-19 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/17/14, 11:51, Simon Danisch wrote: Any feedback, ideas and comments are welcome! Simon, Just FYI, we've been working on an IPython widget wrapper around the three.js library for the IPython notebook: https://github.com/jasongrout/pythreejs (see http://sagecell.sagemath.org/?q=vtjadv

Re: [julia-users] Re: Why should computer scientists and computational statisticians invest in Julia instead of R?

2014-05-12 Thread Jason Grout
On 5/12/14, 10:03, Stefan Karpinski wrote: I rather like using the prime symbol in names for this kind of thing – Jeff introduced me to it – but I can see why it might be confusing. Wow, very confusing. Using n_ or something like that seems to be less confusing. I'm curious: how did you typ

Re: [julia-users] do block semantics

2014-04-28 Thread Jason Grout
On 4/28/14, 12:53, Simon Byrne wrote: On Monday, 28 April 2014 17:06:37 UTC+1, Simon Byrne wrote: My own perspective is that this is due to two reasons 1) `do` is the only (non-macro) construction that rewrites expressions i.e. open("outfile", "w") do f write(f, data)

Re: [julia-users] Re: different eigen value ordering from eigs

2014-04-26 Thread Jason Grout
On 4/25/14, 22:09, Ethan Anderes wrote: Thanks Steven. I figured it was something like that. I was hoping that since the non-symmetry was just numerical error I would still get the eigenvalues sorted in the same order as the symmetric case. It does seem unsatisfying that such a small numerical er

[julia-users] using julia from python

2014-04-15 Thread Jason Grout
Hi everyone, I'm trying to get julia to work from within python. I've tried the IJulia package and I've also tried following this blog: http://blog.leahhanson.us/julia-calling-python-calling-julia.html My setup: OS X 10.9.2, IPython (very close to IPython master), and Julia compiled from s

Re: [julia-users] Function naming idioms in Julia

2014-04-12 Thread Jason Grout
On 4/12/14, 10:59, Ethan Anderes wrote: @jason-sage You can use methodswith to discover methods on a type. I find it doesn't work a smoothly as pythons tab completion but I still find it useful. Ethan and Mike, Thanks for pointing out methodswith. I didn't know about that. Jason

Re: [julia-users] Function naming idioms in Julia

2014-04-11 Thread Jason Grout
On 4/11/14, 17:49, Ben Racine wrote: But, when a function really does logically belong to its first argument, I (sometimes) find myself missing the function namespacing inherent to those systems. I find myself wanting to do what one can do in R and inject a '.' into the function name just for the

Re: [julia-users] Re: Non-GPL Julia?

2014-04-10 Thread Jason Grout
n don't yet have bignums or don't want to use GMP.") Thanks, Jason Grout [1] MPIR, a fork of GMP, may also be another thing to look at: http://www.mpir.org/ We switched Sage to using it instead of GMP a while ago.