[julia-users] Juno command line - total noob question

2015-01-05 Thread Mark B
Hi, I'm beginning a migration off MATLAB and was looking for a similar look/feel IDE as the MATLAB and Octave GUI. I installed the Juno package and it looks good but... I am looking for where you enter commands and see vaiables in the workspace. So far I only see a text editor. Any help?

[julia-users] Quirks with float16 promotion

2015-01-05 Thread Mark B
I'm trying to figure out promotions and noticed a few possible quirks - perhaps these are bugs, as I can't figure out the logic. I realize float16 is a work in progress but I really like the data type as my datasets are large. julia a=rand(Float16,1) # define a float16 variable

[julia-users] Half precision math operations

2014-12-23 Thread Mark B
I was wondering how Julia supports half precision operations? It seems it does (more or less) but I'm not sure if there's a lot of type conversion going on behind the scenes with associated overhead. Would it be more efficient to store and crunch on Float32s? julia rand(Float16,2,2) *

[julia-users] Help prompt formatting question

2014-12-13 Thread Mark B
It seems I am missing something on my julia install. At the help prompt the text comes up with a bunch of formatting tags - see below. Is this Latex or seomthing? How do I get it to appear as a nicely formatted graphic or stylized text? Thanks :) help? ifft Base.ifft(A[, dims])