Doesn't seem to work - would love to find a great resource on Julia
I've found the docs[1] to be extremely easy to follow, as a nice blend between a tutorial and a spec.
Try Julia
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Re: Try Julia
#12It's really easy to try Julia by just downloading it: http://julialang.org/downloads/ . I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Julia is the future of technical computing. We've just started pulling together a BioJulia team - if anyone is interested drop an email (in profile).
I can see Julia replacing Go for a lot of people, specifically those who came from a Python or Ruby background and are using Go for the kind of things more typically written in those languages. I bet Julia will shine in this problem space.
Re: Try Julia
#13It's really easy to try Julia by just downloading it: http://julialang.org/downloads/ . I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Julia is the future of technical computing. We've just started pulling together a BioJulia team - if anyone is interested drop an email (in profile).
Honestly I'm convinced it's a lot more generally applicable than scientific computing. Much of heavy lifting I had to do in C, I can now do in Julia with nearly the same speed and efficiency. Plus, for a lot of the problems I would have chosen Python, Ruby, or even Clojure for, I could really see myself using Julia now.
Same here. In my so-far limited experience, it feels like the upgrade to Python 2 that I wish Python 3 had been.
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#14Can julia yet do the equivalent of the following Octave code:
proportion_value = x ./ sum(x)
The blocker for me with julia is translating my vectorized way of thinking into loops. I know the loops are optimized, but yuck.
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#15Adblock on Chrome is blocking the command prompt by default. At least on my system...
Re: Try Julia
#16Can julia yet do the equivalent of the following Octave code: proportion_value = x ./ sum(x) The blocker for me with julia is translating my vectorized way of thinking into loops. I know the loops are optimized, but yuck.
Yes, this works in Julia without any changes.
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#17koding.com is another way to get an interactive REPL online: https://koding.com/Julia
oh awesome resource, thanks for the link! (looks down from overuse right now but still, cool!)
julia++, i started playing with it this weekend and i'm super pleased. i concur with another comment in this discussion that this is what i wish python had been evolving into. it gets me wondering if python is maybe being left behind compared to other dynamic languages or if it's just fad-ism at work (or me just learning more about languages and features).
Re: Try Julia
#18It's really easy to try Julia by just downloading it: http://julialang.org/downloads/ . I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Julia is the future of technical computing. We've just started pulling together a BioJulia team - if anyone is interested drop an email (in profile).
Any reasoning behind such a generically bold statement?
> Any reasoning behind such a generically bold statement?
If and when they're right, they can smugly point out how forward thinking they were.
Re: Try Julia
#19It's really easy to try Julia by just downloading it: http://julialang.org/downloads/ . I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Julia is the future of technical computing. We've just started pulling together a BioJulia team - if anyone is interested drop an email (in profile).
Any reasoning behind such a generically bold statement?
- Good performance
- Lisp-like macros and other metaprogramming facilities
- It's a general purpose language
- Multiple dispatch
- Designed for parallelism and distributed computation
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#20You can also try Julia in your browser here: https://cloud.sagemath.com
However, you have to (1) make a free account, (2) create a project, (3) open project, click on "+New", click Terminal, (4) type "julia". If you create a .jl file instead of a Terminal (at +New), you'll have proper Julia syntax highlighting and indentation; you can then run that file from the terminal... (Disclaimer: I'm the founder of SageMathCloud.)