I had thought they might have some specific slides that would be helpful. In my experience, whatever the "common task," the audience and the intended result shape the contents of (some of) the presentation. A quick overview of major ways that Julia advances the both the efficacy and the art of scientific programming is a presentation others will want to see. You may have looked at http://julialang.org/teaching/ and http://julialang.org/learning/ (tutorials) 00 it is worth a second look with an eye toward what might make a good slide or two. For your purpose these two pages are important performance-tips <http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/performance-tips/> and fast-numerics <http://julialang.org/blog/2013/09/fast-numeric/>. There may be something already done that would work for you -- or not (dunno). If you are comfortable with some manner of producing slides, give it a go. I have found that organizing and integrating mulitsourced information leads to a more authoritative presentation.
If you go forward and want some feedback on the way -- let me know. On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 5:28:04 PM UTC-4, andrew cooke wrote: > > i'd actually already looked at those (should have said, sorry) - they're > longer than what i was needing, but i could pick a few slides. i just > wondered if what i was doing (basically, selling to scientific programmers > in < 10 mins) was a common task. > > andrew > > On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 18:18:25 UTC-3, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: >> >> Here is one place to look svaksha's list of slide presentations >> <https://github.com/svaksha/Julia.jl/blob/master/Resources.md#slides>. >> >> For those who may not be familiar with details of copyright >> (a) written material is copyrighted even when there is no formal >> copyright statement >> (b) it is the responsibility of the person who wants to use the >> material to get the author's permission >> (sometimes that permission may accompany the material, e.g. >> "this material is placed in the public domain", or with some other >> permissive language) >> (c) when using another person's written work, cite the person and >> identify the work so others can find it if they want >> >> The Julia community is more helpful and supportive than most; so, go >> ahead and ask, and let the person know you would cite their work. >> >> >> On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 4:58:33 PM UTC-4, andrew cooke wrote: >>> >>> >>> I need to give a presentation at work and was wondering is slides >>> already exist that: >>> >>> * show how fast it is in benchmarks >>> >>> * show that it's similar to matlab (matrix stuff) >>> >>> * show that you can write fast inner loops >>> >>> For bonus points: >>> >>> * show how you can add other numerical types at no "cost" >>> >>> * show how mutiple dispatch can be useful >>> >>> * show how someone used to OO in, say, python, won't feel too lost >>> >>> Preferably just one slide per point. Very short. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Andrew >>> >>>
