[julia-users] Error: expected Function, got Int64

2015-05-18 Thread James Byars
Hello all, I am an education doctoral student who is a self-taught stats and programming person. My primary coding and stats experience is with R. I have started to attempt Julia and was using the Project Euler questions as a way to teach myself the language structure, types, and specifying

[julia-users] Re: Installing HDF5

2015-05-18 Thread rk
Thanks. I managed to get it to work by using the terminal instead. For those running Juno and encountering similar problems I'd recommend building packages from the terminal. On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 11:16:54 PM UTC-5, Tony Kelman wrote: No, this isn't normal, but bugs happen. Blosc's

[julia-users] installing nlopt.jl on unix with manually installed NLopt?

2015-05-18 Thread Florian Oswald
Hi all, I'm working on a scienfitic unix cluster where the NLopt.jl provided build.jl fails. I paste the error output in the end. I installed NLopt manually into ~/local. How can I build NLopt.jl such that it takes my ~/local/lib/libnlopt.a? I have done push!(Sys.DL_LOAD_PATH,

[julia-users] Using Julia program as computation backend

2015-05-18 Thread Roman Kravchik
I am building a web app for DSP tasks. It consists of SPA frontend, REST API Server, RabbitMQ and computation server. And I want to use Julia lang for develop computation back-end. Has anybody had some experience in integration Julia programs with AMQP message brokers? P.S. I've read this topic

Re: [julia-users] Using Julia program as computation backend

2015-05-18 Thread Kevin Squire
That's true. On Monday, May 18, 2015, Roman Kravchik ro...@kravchik.ru wrote: Thanks for the link. But it seems to be like CGI-style operation - eval julia expression and i'm not sure it's a perspective direction. понедельник, 18 мая 2015 г., 17:46:16 UTC+3 пользователь Kevin Squire

Re: [julia-users] Julia Summer of Code

2015-05-18 Thread Sisyphuss
You can be a tutor I guess. On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 2:32:22 PM UTC+2, Scott Jones wrote: These are particular interesting to me (if I were a student, or not already more than full-time working using Julia), I'd jump on one of these two:

[julia-users] Re: sqrt(abs2(x)) Vs abs(x)

2015-05-18 Thread Kristoffer Carlsson
When you benchmark stuff like this it is good to make a benchmark with as little noise in it as possible. Here is a version which removes slicing, bounds checking, allocations etc: function timeit() A = rand(1024, 1024) B = similar(A) a = @elapsed for i = 1:size(A, 1), j = 1:size(A,

Re: [julia-users] known, working, recent examples for Clang.jl?

2015-05-18 Thread Isaiah Norton
Just a side question: If i run wrap_c on one of the larger system libraries (e.g. X11.h) and get an error; is it more likely it uses a rather esoteric cpp features (and therefore isn't covered in the current wrap_c) OR is it more likely that i miss some compiler flags? Hard to say, depends

[julia-users] Error: expected Function, got Int64

2015-05-18 Thread Daniel Høegh
Have you tried to restart the REPL, because I see no problems in running: function fib_sum_2(x,y,z) sum(x:x:z) + sum(y:y:z) - sum(lcm(x,y):lcm(x,y):z) end julia fib_sum_2(3,5,999) 233168

[julia-users] Re: Error: expected Function, got Int64

2015-05-18 Thread Kristoffer Carlsson
This works for me, both in Julia 0.3 and 0.4 julia function fib_sum_2(x,y,z) sum(x:x:z) + sum(y:y:z) - sum(lcm(x,y):lcm(x,y):z) end fib_sum_2 (generic function with 1 method) julia fib_sum_2(3,5,999) 233168 What happens if you restart Julia and try again? On Monday, May

[julia-users] Re: Error: expected Function, got Int64

2015-05-18 Thread James Byars
Thank you. I said this in the post below, but is this an issue with Julia going forward? The need to restart. On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 10:50:28 AM UTC-4, Kristoffer Carlsson wrote: This works for me, both in Julia 0.3 and 0.4 julia function fib_sum_2(x,y,z) sum(x:x:z) +

[julia-users] Re: 4D interpolation from scattered points

2015-05-18 Thread Florian Oswald
Hi there, xdata (or any other grid) does not need to be on a grid, that's just the way the example is written. but no extrapolation, that's right. On Thursday, 14 May 2015 01:05:55 UTC+1, Yakir Gagnon wrote: Thanks a ton people!!! ExtremelyRandomizedTrees.jl: Might be really good, but

Re: [julia-users] Using Julia program as computation backend

2015-05-18 Thread Kevin Squire
Hi Roman, Not a direct answer to your question, but you might check out node-julia ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-julia), if you're open to including node in the soup of web components. Cheers, Kevin On Monday, May 18, 2015, Roman Kravchik ro...@kravchik.ru wrote: I am building a web

[julia-users] sqrt(abs2(x)) Vs abs(x)

2015-05-18 Thread antony schutz
Hello, I just discover abs2() function :v And I have to say that i'm really surprised that: sqrt(abs2( x )) is quicker than abs( x ) For a Matrix of size 512*512 and then a vector of size 512 1 realizations, the mean results are (on a macbook): abs(x[:,:]) 0.0073665214096

Re: [julia-users] Using Julia program as computation backend

2015-05-18 Thread Roman Kravchik
Thanks for the link. But it seems to be like CGI-style operation - eval julia expression and i'm not sure it's a perspective direction. понедельник, 18 мая 2015 г., 17:46:16 UTC+3 пользователь Kevin Squire написал: Hi Roman, Not a direct answer to your question, but you might check out

Re: [julia-users] Is it possible to imread indexed images?

2015-05-18 Thread Yakir Gagnon
Cool, thanks again Tim! Yakir Gagnon The Queensland Brain Institute (Building #79) The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia cell +61 (0)424 393 332 work +61 (0)733 654 089 On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:05 AM, Tim Holy tim.h...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure myself how hard this

Re: [julia-users] known, working, recent examples for Clang.jl?

2015-05-18 Thread Andreas Lobinger
On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 7:06:34 PM UTC+2, Isaiah wrote: (please file issues...) Just a side question: If i run wrap_c on one of the larger system libraries (e.g. X11.h) and get an error; is it more likely it uses a rather esoteric cpp features (and therefore isn't covered in the current

Re: [julia-users] Example of imread from an imagemagick stream

2015-05-18 Thread Yakir Gagnon
I’m now using open instead of readandwrite… ​ Yakir Gagnon The Queensland Brain Institute (Building #79) The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia cell +61 (0)424 393 332 work +61 (0)733 654 089 On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Yakir Gagnon 12.ya...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks!

Re: [julia-users] Re: how to create a command with an unquoted backslash in it?

2015-05-18 Thread Yakir Gagnon
Right, yea, it was all a mistake I made and I thought the parenthesis were the culprits... Thanks anyway!!! Yakir Gagnon The Queensland Brain Institute (Building #79) The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia cell +61 (0)424 393 332 work +61 (0)733 654 089 On Sun, May 17, 2015

[julia-users] Re: [ANN] SparseVectors.jl

2015-05-18 Thread Dahua Lin
The package has been moved to under JuliaSparse: https://github.com/JuliaSparse/SparseVectors.jl Best, Dahua On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 10:24:57 PM UTC+8, Dahua Lin wrote: Dear all, I am pleased to announce a new package SparseVectors: https://github.com/lindahua/SparseVectors.jl

Re: [julia-users] Preferred way to structure a module

2015-05-18 Thread Mauro
For my own modules, I've tended to follow the example of the Distributions and Distances package, where each distribution (or distance) is its own type, and then there is a small number of generic functions (eg evaluate) that use multiple dispatch to return the appropriate value depending

[julia-users] Re: how do we convert an array{Float64,1} in a Float64?

2015-05-18 Thread Sisyphuss
Side note: A[] == A[1] On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 9:19:48 PM UTC+2, paul analyst wrote: Use [] julia A=rand(1) 1-element Array{Float64,1}: 0.33519 julia A[] 0.3351896128863725 julia W dniu piątek, 15 maja 2015 23:18:32 UTC+2 użytkownik Lytu napisał: Someone know how to convert

Re: [julia-users] Re: Error: expected Function, got Int64

2015-05-18 Thread Isaiah Norton
(or use `workspace()`) On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Jameson Nash vtjn...@gmail.com wrote: at some point you probably entered something like: sum = 5 from that point on, sum refers to 5, rather than the Base.sum function. you could restore it by typing sum = Base.sum or just restart

Re: [julia-users] Re: Error: expected Function, got Int64

2015-05-18 Thread Tim Holy
You probably did this: julia x = rand(3) 3-element Array{Float64,1}: 0.203537 0.0976039 0.425243 julia sum = 5 # you just borked sum 5 julia sum(x) ERROR: type: apply: expected Function, got Int64 But notice sum is still there: julia Base.sum(x) 0.7263840892398132 julia sum = Base.sum

Re: [julia-users] Re: Error: expected Function, got Int64

2015-05-18 Thread Jameson Nash
at some point you probably entered something like: sum = 5 from that point on, sum refers to 5, rather than the Base.sum function. you could restore it by typing sum = Base.sum or just restart On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:37 AM James Byars jimmyby...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. I said this in

Re: [julia-users] Re: how to replace , to . in Array{Any,2}:

2015-05-18 Thread Paul Analyst
Big thx, but after this code x is no changed Paul W dniu 2015-05-17 o 20:23, wild...@gmail.com pisze: map(e-replace(string(e), ',', '.'), x) On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 2:40:05 PM UTC-4, paul analyst wrote: I have file with decimal separator lika , x=readdlm(x.txt,'\t') julia

[julia-users] Error running dump() on a JLD (HDF5) file containing a DataFrame

2015-05-18 Thread Josef Sachs
Am I doing something wrong? I get the same error in 0.3.8. I notice that there is a method with signature read(::HDF5.HDF5Dataset, ::Type{Array{HDF5.HDF5Compound,N}}) but not read(::HDF5.HDF5Dataset, ::Type{HDF5.HDF5Compound}) _ _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to

Re: [julia-users] Re: how do we convert an array{Float64,1} in a Float64?

2015-05-18 Thread Paul Analyst
But very important ! Paul W dniu 2015-05-18 o 17:45, Sisyphuss pisze: Side note: A[] == A[1] On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 9:19:48 PM UTC+2, paul analyst wrote: Use [] julia A=rand(1) 1-element Array{Float64,1}: 0.33519 julia A[] 0.3351896128863725 julia W

[julia-users] Re: sqrt(abs2(x)) Vs abs(x)

2015-05-18 Thread Steven G. Johnson
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 10:51:48 AM UTC-4, antony schutz wrote: Hello, I just discover abs2() function :v And I have to say that i'm really surprised that: sqrt(abs2( x )) is quicker than abs( x ) Note that the abs(x) function is more robust because it avoids spurious overflow

[julia-users] Tips on parallel performance?

2015-05-18 Thread Jason Morton
Working with a 16 core / 32 thread machine with 32GB ram that presents to ubuntu as 32 cores. I'm trying to understand how to get the best performance for embarrassingly parallel tasks. I want to take a bunch of svds in parallel as an example. The scaling seems to be perfect (6.6 seconds

[julia-users] Re: Microsoft and Julia (getting to 1.0)

2015-05-18 Thread Tony Kelman
Aside from semver.org, I'm going to guess not yet. But I'm also not privy to any private discussions that may have happened within Julia Computing. (Hopefully we can avoid there needing to be too many of those related to the language itself) On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 1:41:17 PM UTC-7,

Re: [julia-users] Re: Microsoft and Julia (getting to 1.0)

2015-05-18 Thread Isaiah Norton
The milestone flags are useful references (nothing really set in stone at this point though, AFAIK). https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.5 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A1.0 On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:19 PM,

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Jacob Quinn
You could also take a look at JudyDicts.jl, which wrap the corresponding C library. Supposedly, it's one of the most highly optimized Dict implementations anywhere. I think the Julia package may need an update, however. https://github.com/tanmaykm/JudyDicts.jl -Jacob On Mon, May 18, 2015 at

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Yichao Yu
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Scott Jones scott.paul.jo...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose I could use a set simply to determine if it was present or not, and then push! to another array if not present... just didn't seem as efficient as what I'm used to... Why does it have to be an array? And

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Steven G. Johnson
Scott, this looks pretty much exactly like what Tim's example does: you have a dictionary (aka associative array, aka mapping, depending on your terminology) mapping keys to a counter. Dicts are reasonably fast in Julia, although they could certainly be further optimized (like almost

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Jameson Nash
use a Set? http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/collections/?highlight=set On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:46 PM Scott Jones scott.paul.jo...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to be able to do the following in Julia: Take a UInt64 (or UInt128, for that matter), and add it to an array, if it is

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Scott Jones
How well do Dict’s perform currently in Julia? I hope pretty well! Thanks, that’s more what I needed… -Scott On May 18, 2015, at 5:34 PM, Tim Holy tim.h...@gmail.com wrote: If you really want to get the index back, perhaps better might be a dict: counter = 0 d = Dict{KeyType,Int}()

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Tim Holy
As long as the dict is concretely typed, it should be pretty good. (I can't comment about string keys, but you probably could! I think Symbols are more performant than strings for indexing.) Also, small correction: I should have used get! instead of get. You want to set that new value in the

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Scott Jones
I suppose I could use a set simply to determine if it was present or not, and then push! to another array if not present... just didn't seem as efficient as what I'm used to... On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 4:53:02 PM UTC-4, Jameson wrote: use a Set?

[julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Scott Jones
I would like to be able to do the following in Julia: Take a UInt64 (or UInt128, for that matter), and add it to an array, if it is not already present, returning the index. (This would be trivial in the language I used to work on, and I think it probably is in Julia as well, but I haven't found

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Scott Jones
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 5:31:18 PM UTC-4, Yichao Yu wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Scott Jones scott.pa...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: I suppose I could use a set simply to determine if it was present or not, and then push! to another array if not present... just didn't

Re: [julia-users] SharedArray definition and assignation of values. Is this behavior a bug?

2015-05-18 Thread Jacob Quinn
I'm actually just about to do another round of windows testing on #11280, so I'll test this out as well. Thanks for the report! -Jacob On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Sebastian Souyris sebastian.souy...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that there is a bug when you define several SharedArray in one

[julia-users] Re: GSoC 2015 with JuliaQuantum

2015-05-18 Thread Viral Shah
This is amazing! Do keep us posted on how things go. -viral On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 4:42:39 AM UTC+5:30, Amit Jamadagni wrote: Hello everyone, I am most happy to inform that my project titled JuliaQuantum : Framework for Solvers

[julia-users] Re: Microsoft and Julia (getting to 1.0)

2015-05-18 Thread Viral Shah
Support for Microsoft platforms is obviously important. Not just Azure, but even AWS keeps coming out with really cool stuff almost by the day. It is tempting to think that an army of engineers can shorten everything and get things done quicker (mythical man month?) - but I personally don't

Re: [julia-users] Preferred way to structure a module

2015-05-18 Thread colintbowers
Just wanted to say thanks for responding, and if you do encounter that thread again in your travels, I'd be very grateful if you could post a link (but please don't waste time searching for it on my behalf). Cheers, Colin On Monday, 18 May 2015 18:22:06 UTC+10, Mauro wrote: For my own

Re: [julia-users] SharedArray definition and assignation of values. Is this behavior a bug?

2015-05-18 Thread Jacob Quinn
I'm not able to reproduce the above behavior with my latest changes to #11280, so that's a good sign! If you're feeling ambitious/able, feel free to give that PR a spin to see if it fixes it for you as well. -Jacob On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Jacob Quinn quinn.jac...@gmail.com wrote: I'm

[julia-users] Newbie question; convert a hex string to base64

2015-05-18 Thread Martin Becze
Hello I'm just starting with julia and im stuck on converting a hex string to base64 encoded string. How would you do this with julia? Thanks, -Martin

Re: [julia-users] SharedArray definition and assignation of values. Is this behavior a bug?

2015-05-18 Thread Jameson Nash
this definitely looks like a bug. can you post an issue? it might be good to see if https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11280 fixes it as well. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:44 PM Sebastian Souyris sebastian.souy...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that there is a bug when you define several

Re: [julia-users] Re: Microsoft and Julia (getting to 1.0)

2015-05-18 Thread Viral Shah
On Julia 1.0 and related tools, I recently put something together for a grant proposal, basically summarizing various issues on github and discussions we have been having. I need to do some cleanup, but will share something here in a few days. We can then iterate on it and publish it as a

[julia-users] Re: Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Scott Jones
Thanks everybody, Dicts are working fine now, for my tests with UInt64 and UInt128s as keys... (I haven't benchmarked it against my old stuff, I'll have to do that at some point ;-) ) What I'm doing right now isn't really performance critical (I, of course, am obsessively interested in any

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Steven G. Johnson
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 6:26:06 PM UTC-4, Jacob Quinn wrote: You could also take a look at JudyDicts.jl, which wrap the corresponding C library. Supposedly, it's one of the most highly optimized Dict implementations anywhere. I think the Julia package may need an update, however.

Re: [julia-users] Re: how to replace , to . in Array{Any,2}:

2015-05-18 Thread elextr
Strings are immutable, so replace can't change the existing string, so it returns a new string, so map returns a new array which you have to assign back to x Cheers Lex On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 2:10:18 AM UTC+10, paul analyst wrote: Big thx, but after this code x is no changed Paul W

Re: [julia-users] (autoconf | cmake) USE_SYSTEM_LLVM=1 Cxx.jl

2015-05-18 Thread Isaiah Norton
1) I would like to compile LLVM with cmake as I'm used to... which flags I shoud use ? see `deps/llvm-svn/build_Release/config.log` for the flags we pass in, and try to mirror at least some of those. 2) Maybe there is some trick : llvm-config --cxxflags can give flags different from the

[julia-users] Re: Microsoft and Julia (getting to 1.0)

2015-05-18 Thread Michael Francis
Out of interest is there a definition of 1.0 ? On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 12:29:19 AM UTC-4, Tony Kelman wrote: Julia might get Microsoft's attention at some point. You could go vote for

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Tim Holy
If you really want to get the index back, perhaps better might be a dict: counter = 0 d = Dict{KeyType,Int}() for item in list idx = get(d, item, counter+1) if idx counter counter += 1 end # Do whatever you plan to do with idx end --Tim On Monday, May 18, 2015 02:24:25

Re: [julia-users] Best way in Julia to build a set of unique values?

2015-05-18 Thread Scott Jones
Oops... that should have been: If '$data(arr(key),index) { // If the array already has the key, it is set into the variable index, otherwise: Set index = $Increment(arr) // atomically increment index, and set the key to that value in the array Set arr(key) = index Set index(index) =

[julia-users] GSoC 2015 with JuliaQuantum

2015-05-18 Thread Amit Jamadagni
Hello everyone, I am most happy to inform that my project titled JuliaQuantum : Framework for Solvers https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2015/amitjamadagni/5700735861784576 has been selected for GSoC 2015

[julia-users] Preferred way to structure a module

2015-05-18 Thread colintbowers
Hi all, I'm just writing with a broad question about how to structure a module in Julia. For my own modules, I've tended to follow the example of the Distributions and Distances package, where each distribution (or distance) is its own type, and then there is a small number of generic

[julia-users] Re: Zurich Julia users Meetup needs a new organizer

2015-05-18 Thread Mauro
I just stepped up as the new organizer of Zurich Julia Users Group. I plan to hold the next meeting around first or second week of July to give a summary of what went on at JuliaCon. If you're near Zurich and not yet a member of the meetup, please join at: