Re: [julia-users] Make a histogram

If you know the categories then one thing you could do is think about it as a barplot julia> UnicodePlots.barplot(a[:,1], a[:,2], symb = "▇") ┌┐ 7 │▇▇ 4│ 4 │▇▇▇ 2 │

Re: [julia-users] Is the master algorithm on the roadmap?

has been successfully > applied in many areas, even though there are many other areas remaining. > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Christof Stocker <stocker@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Hello Kevin, >> >> Enthusiasm is a good thing and you should hold on

Re: [julia-users] Is the master algorithm on the roadmap?

Hello Kevin, Enthusiasm is a good thing and you should hold on to that. But to save yourself some headache or disappointment down the road I advice a level head. Nothing is really as bluntly obviously solved as it may seems at first glance after listening to brilliant people explain things. A

Re: [julia-users] Opinion on Plots.jl -- exclamation marks

I also prefer the ! so I know it modifies an existing plot. If I don't use a ! then I expect to create a new one On 2016-04-09 02:52, Daniel Carrera wrote: Ok. Thanks for the explanation. Cheers, Daniel. On 9 April 2016 at 02:30, Tom Breloff >

Re: [julia-users] Re: custom ctags for Julia

ise, which it is the right way to generate the file tags? in .julia/ ? with the command: `ctags -R .` 2016-03-16 10:38 GMT-03:00 Christof Stocker <stocker.chris...@gmail.com <mailto:stocker.chris...@gmail.com>>: Makes sense. I don't use C-], I use the CtrlP plugin to jump around in

Re: [julia-users] Re: custom ctags for Julia

-3, Christof Stocker wrote: I made myself a custom one based on the one from the julia repo. Basically I seperated the big one into multiple categories and also allow functions to be marked inline I posted a gist of it for those interested https

[julia-users] Re: custom ctags for Julia

14:38:42 UTC+1 schrieb Christof Stocker: > > Hi! > > Are there any VIM users here who have a nice > [tagbar](https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar) going? > > For the tagbar to work properly one needs to have a Julia language > definition for [ctags](http://ctags.sourcef

[julia-users] custom ctags for Julia

Hi! Are there any VIM users here who have a nice [tagbar](https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar) going? For the tagbar to work properly one needs to have a Julia language definition for [ctags](http://ctags.sourceforge.net/). I have found one

Re: [julia-users] Re: deep learning for regression?

I am happy to see people interested in messing around with Julia for ML. The best way to wrap your head around the concepts is usually to try it out and see what happens. My 2 cents are that I doubt that you will get competitive results with neural networks for your regression problems (even

Re: [julia-users] Re: what's the difference btwn multiple dispatch and c++ overloading?

To follow up with a question on this "multiple dispatch is resolved at runtime" statement: I was under the impression, that if the Julia JIT compiler is able to infer the concrete types of the variables involved in a method call, that it will select the appropriate method at compile time. Am

Re: [julia-users] Re: ANN: Kip.jl an alternative module system

I happen to really like Julia's package manager. It unifies package development with package usage and is also really convenient to work with. Because of this I pretty much create a package for every experiment I make. Personally I'd go around telling colleagues that Julia's Package Manager is

Re: [julia-users] Convert result of get request from Requests.jl to an Image from Images.jl

11:56:11 PM Christof Stocker wrote: I am trying to find a way to convert a JPEG that I receive from a GET request into an Image, but without creating a temporary file. Does anyone know a good solution to this? I tried a couple of things such as creating an IOStream out of the Array{UInt8,1} that I

[julia-users] Convert result of get request from Requests.jl to an Image from Images.jl

I am trying to find a way to convert a JPEG that I receive from a GET request into an Image, but without creating a temporary file. Does anyone know a good solution to this? I tried a couple of things such as creating an IOStream out of the Array{UInt8,1} that I receive from the GET request,

Re: [julia-users] Anyone interested in H20.ai package?

Funny coincidence. I have been playing around with its REST API recently. I was thinking of mirroring the R package (and thus have a more or less identical interface), which is Apache licensed and is really nice to use. I did, however, have two concerns that discouraged me. My main concern is

Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia and Spark

Personally, I think the most progress is made if some person has a huge interest in doing it. I for one have a big interest in using Julia for ML, but I myself am not particularly interested in using Spark from Julia. I just don't feel like it would be useful to me for anything. In the

[julia-users] using a JSON REST API from Julia

What is the current best practice to handle JSON and to use a REST API from Julia? From preliminary search I would assume JuliaLang/JSON.jl and JuliaWeb/Requests.jl, but I am unsure Doe anyone have any suggestions what to look at?

Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia and Spark

A pure Julia ML ecosystem is something that is actively being worked on/towards. Naturally large problem sizes are one big reason that people are interested in working on this. It just takes time to flesh it out to something that people are used to from languages like python or R. As I see it,

Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia and Spark

enrichment, ETL, etc. I don't think Julia ML ecosystem by itself will ever expand to these areas. On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Christof Stocker <stocker.chris...@gmail.com <mailto:stocker.chris...@gmail.com>> wrote: A pure Julia ML ecosystem is something that is actively bein

Re: [julia-users] Re: Google releases TensorFlow as open source

e they had consistently used more descriptive names (eg. regularization_strength instead of alpha). On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 11:00:56 AM UTC-5, Christof Stocker wrote: I understand that. But that would imply that a group of people that are used to different notation would nee

Re: [julia-users] Re: Google releases TensorFlow as open source

I agree. I personally think the ML efforts should follow the StatsBase and Optim conventions where it makes sense. The notational differences are inconvenient, but they are manageable. I think readability should be the goal there. For example if you implement some algorithm one should use the

Re: [julia-users] Re: Google releases TensorFlow as open source

I'm afraid it is not as easy as simply wrapping "existing" functionality, unless one is ok with a lot of wrapper packages for C backends. I do realize that a lot of people might be ok with this, but to some (me included) that would defeat the purpose of using Julia in the first place. I really

Re: [julia-users] Re: Google releases TensorFlow as open source

the paper as a reference. (the obvious solution is to never use greek letters, of course) On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Christof Stocker <stocker.chris...@gmail.com <mailto:stocker.chris...@gmail.com>> wrote: I agree. I personally think the ML efforts should follow the

Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia and Object-Oriented Programming

My two favorite languages combined! Then again, I wouldn't want ice cream on my steak :-) On 2015-10-19 19:39, ssarkarayushnet...@gmail.com wrote: I am confident that a new OOP language *ScalaJulia *is possible integrating syntax of both functional languages Scala and Julia. Thanks, SS

Re: [julia-users] Does Julia really solve the two-language problem?

I agree with you in that most of the code I start out with usually contains some dirty hacks that I later refactor. But that is just my personal approach to programming -> get something running quickly and iterate on it That being said, based on my personal experience with Julia (which is

Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia code 5x to 30x slower than Matlab code

I have been spending the past weeks trying to really understand how to implement efficient code. As far as I can tell (from first hand experience), Julia really does give you a prominent edge over R and Matlab in terms of performance. However, I also think that there are currently a lot of

Re: [julia-users] Guideline for Function Documentation

2015 à 21:46 +0200, Christof Stocker a écrit : So the website is (probably on purpose) not very specific on recommendations for how to document ones functions (stylewise) using the new doc system. However, since I am writing an enduser-facing library with a lot of parameters, I am wondering about w

Re: [julia-users] Re: IDE for Julia

n Qt (& QtCreator I believe). I thought that JuliaStudio was a nice start (also based on QtCreator). I wish a group would fork it and develop it further in the direction of RStudio. On Friday, September 18, 2015 at 10:08:23 AM UTC+2, Christof Stocker wrote: I would be a huge fan of an

[julia-users] Guideline for Function Documentation

So the website is (probably on purpose) not very specific on recommendations for how to document ones functions (stylewise) using the new doc system. However, since I am writing an enduser-facing library with a lot of parameters, I am wondering about what useful guidelines others here came up

Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia 0.4 RC ppa?

So bottomline what does this mean for the upcoming 0.4 release. Is the deb not going to be updated for stable releases anymore, or are you just talking about managing different versions at the same time? On 2015-09-20 20:23, Elliot Saba wrote: Yep, Tony hit it on the head. As the maintainer

Re: [julia-users] Re: IDE for Julia

I would be a huge fan of an RStudio like Julia IDE On 2015-09-18 10:05, Uwe Fechner wrote: I like QT a lot. There is more then one open source, QT based IDE out there, e.g. QT Creator. QT has a GUI builder, that is much better then the GUI builders for GTK (in my opinion). And you can use the

Re: [julia-users] Re: opencv python api in Julia

Thank god, almost got a heart attack there. I am just looking at the papers in my efforts On 2015-09-18 16:32, Mauro wrote: Just the implementation. But by looking at the code you look at the implementation. So, it's ok to look at pseudo-code in a paper (even if that paper is under strict

Re: [julia-users] Re: opencv python api in Julia

Wait, so how does this work. Doesn't the license just cover the implementation? or is the underlying abstract algorithm covered by it? On 2015-09-18 16:00, Tim Holy wrote: not implemented, care to try? You can find several implementations online; watch the license, though---if you read code

Re: [julia-users] Re: opencv python api in Julia

for hijacking this thread Am Freitag, 18. September 2015 16:37:59 UTC+2 schrieb Christof Stocker: > > Thank god, almost got a heart attack there. I am just looking at the > papers in my efforts > > On 2015-09-18 16:32, Mauro wrote: > > Just the implementation. But by looking

Re: [julia-users] Re: IDE for Julia

ge anymore) On 2015-09-18 21:49, Daniel Carrera wrote: I have never used RStudio (or R, or IDEs). What features does it have that you would like to see in a Julia IDE? Cheers, Daniel. On 18 September 2015 at 10:08, Christof Stocker <stocker.chris...@gmail.com <mailto:stocker.chris...@g

Re: [julia-users] Re: IDE for Julia

I am just happy and thankful that people work on the IDE side of Julia. But I have to admit that the whole web-based IDE movement annoys the heck out of me. On 2015-09-17 11:31, Daniel Carrera wrote: On 17 September 2015 at 11:17, Eric Forgy

Re: [julia-users] Re: IDE for Julia

applications that are fast and responsive. On 2015-09-17 13:23, Daniel Carrera wrote: Why? On 17 September 2015 at 12:09, Christof Stocker <stocker.chris...@gmail.com <mailto:stocker.chris...@gmail.com>> wrote: I am just happy and thankful that people work on the IDE side

Re: [julia-users] ANN: Immerse package, and more videos on interactive plotting

+100 i don't even know what to say. This is so awesome. It's exactly what I wished for with gadfly On 2015-09-14 17:14, Tim Holy wrote: I'm pleased to announce the availability of the Immerse package: https://github.com/JuliaGraphics/Immerse.jl Immerse is designed to add a new layer of

[julia-users] Advice on randomly partitioning a large dense array

I could use some advice on how to randomly partition large arrays into train and holdout set I am working on a machine learning related problem where I want to provide convenience methods to deal with large in-memory data sets (i.e. a large dense matrix |X| and a target vector |t|) In

Re: [julia-users] How do you distribute your Julia projects?

On 2015-09-02 13:51, Leff Ivanov wrote: Is it possible or is it even planned to be able to create native standalone executables from Julia scripts? By standalone I mean that executable file can be used fully by the end user without the need to install Julia. By native I mean that Julia code

[julia-users] Announcing UnicodePlots.jl

Hello everyone! If you are like me and work a lot from the command line, but you would still like to visualise your data somehow, then maybe UnicodePlots.jl https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl could be of use to you. It supports colors and also offers a low-level API to the canvas itself