Re: [julia-users] Finding the size of a file in mb

2014-04-11 Thread Andrew Tulloch
Not sure if it's the canonical method, but Julia has a wrapper for the `stat` system call (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stat_(system_call)), so you can just do ``` stat(filename).size ``` to get the file size in bytes. See https://gist.github.com/ajtulloch/10434524 for an example. On Fri, Apr

Re: [julia-users] Re: Getting around a PosDefException

2014-04-11 Thread Andreas Noack Jensen
I think that sqrtm would often be the more reasonable advise. My guess is that the Cholesky factor is very often used like a matrix square root. 2014-04-08 18:22 GMT+02:00 Stefan Karpinski ste...@karpinski.org: Is it possible to default to unpivoted and if that fails detect that a pivoted

Re: [julia-users] Re: Getting around a PosDefException

2014-04-11 Thread Toivo Henningsson
Isn't sqrtm more computationally expensive? On Friday, 11 April 2014 09:03:38 UTC+2, Andreas Noack Jensen wrote: I think that sqrtm would often be the more reasonable advise. My guess is that the Cholesky factor is very often used like a matrix square root.

[julia-users] IJulia Error

2014-04-11 Thread Thomas Moore
I've been trying to get IJulia to work on Ubuntu 12.04 with Julia Version 0.3.0-prerelease+2057. I installed ipython 2.0.0 using easy_install: easy_install ipython[all] and this allows me to run an ipython notebook from the terminal with: ipython notebook This all works fine. I then

Re: [julia-users] Re: Getting around a PosDefException

2014-04-11 Thread Andreas Noack Jensen
Actually much more expensive, but I think that it could easily get confusing to use the permuted Cholesky factor. We should probably have a look at sqrtm and see if it could be made more efficient. It allocates a lot of memory and I am not sure that it is necessary. 2014-04-11 11:28 GMT+02:00

[julia-users] Re: Is it wrong to think of Julia as a Lisp that uses m-expressions?

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Innes
Lisp has certainly had a strong influence on Julia. First class functions, homoiconicity, running code at compile time and compiling code at runtime, the interactive REPL, dynamic typing and GC, everything you could really want from a Lisp is there. But, syntax does make a difference, I think.

[julia-users] Export/view movie of plots

2014-04-11 Thread Sheehan Olver
I'm trying to do movies of an evolving solution to a PDE. Let's say that the solution at time steps is stored as columns of an array.Is this possible? Preferably in IJulia, but if that's not possible export from Julia.

[julia-users] Talk on numerical algorithms in Julia at UCL, 4/14

2014-04-11 Thread Jiahao Chen
I will be giving a talk in London to introduce how Julia facilitates the writing of numerical algorithms. University College London Roberts Building, Room 106 Monday, 14 April at 14:50 http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/anahpc13/ I will be in London this weekend also, and

[julia-users] Re: Export/view movie of plots

2014-04-11 Thread Arnim Bleier
Hi, create pictures for each frame [1:N] ... (lets say pic_n.png) then mencoder mf://*.png -mf w=200:h=150:fps=25:type=png -ovc copy -oac copy -o out.avi now you should have a out.avi Best Arnim On Friday, April 11, 2014 1:20:18 PM UTC+2, Sheehan Olver wrote: I'm trying to do movies

Re: [julia-users] Re: Export/view movie of plots

2014-04-11 Thread Sheehan Olver
Was hoping for something one line on Julia Sent from my iPhone On Apr 11, 2014, at 10:18 PM, Arnim Bleier arnim.ble...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, create pictures for each frame [1:N] ... (lets say pic_n.png) then mencoder mf://*.png -mf w=200:h=150:fps=25:type=png -ovc copy -oac copy -o

[julia-users] GPU computing

2014-04-11 Thread gexarcha
Hi, I am trying to figure out what kind of options do I have for utilizing the GPU for high performance computing in Julia. I have seen some old threadshttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/julia-dev/YeF2mu2Ii-k/zcr78Ml_6IIJdiscussing an nvptx backend and the CUDA.jl package. I would like to

[julia-users] Re: Implementing Gillespie's Stochastic Simulation Algorithm

2014-04-11 Thread Simon Frost
Dear David, It probably would be easier to pass a function that, given the current states and the parameters, returned a Float64 vector of rates. The main issue that I have is that eval can't see all the variables defined in the function scope, so my code runs fine if run globally, but not as

Re: [julia-users] IJulia Error

2014-04-11 Thread Isaiah Norton
This error usually means that python can't find the julia executable. Try running Pkg.build(IJulia) and see if there are any errors. If there are no errors, then look in ~/.config/ipython/profile_julia/ipython_config.py. The last line should be c.KernelManager.kernel_cmd = Does the Julia

Re: [julia-users] IJulia Error

2014-04-11 Thread Andreas Noack Jensen
Last week I had a similar error, but I cannot remember the exact phrasing. The reason was the the REPL, but Pkg.checkout(IJulia) fixed it. 2014-04-11 15:13 GMT+02:00 Isaiah Norton isaiah.nor...@gmail.com: This error usually means that python can't find the julia executable. Try running

Re: [julia-users] IJulia Error

2014-04-11 Thread Thomas Moore
This looks to have solved the problem nicely! When I looked at the last line of ~/.ipython/profile_julia/ipython_config.py it was: c.KernelManager.kernel_cmd = [/home/thomas/julia/usr/bin/julia, -F, /home/thomas/.julia/IJulia/src/kernel.jl, {connection_file}] However there was no julia

Re: [julia-users] Re: Is it wrong to think of Julia as a Lisp that uses m-expressions?

2014-04-11 Thread Stefan Karpinski
We contemplated giving Julia macros function call syntax, but decided not to. These were a few of the reasons: 1. The @foo syntax serves as a warning to the reader that something unusual is about to happen. Macro invocation isn't at all like a function call and doesn't look like it – it

Re: [julia-users] Hyper-Dual numbers

2014-04-11 Thread Robert J Goedman
HI John, Done, should be available, thanks to Jiahao! Rob J. Goedman goed...@icloud.com On Apr 8, 2014, at 8:03 AM, John Myles White johnmyleswh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob, Please do submit your package to METADATA now that it has a well-defined license. It seems like a really useful

Re: [julia-users] IJulia Error

2014-04-11 Thread Isaiah Norton
Could you check to see if this is corrected automatically by running Pkg.build(IJulia)? If not, we should figure out why. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Thomas Moore tommo...@live.com.au wrote: This looks to have solved the problem nicely! When I looked at the last line of

Re: [julia-users] Finding the size of a file in mb

2014-04-11 Thread Stefan Karpinski
filesize(filename) just does that for you. Unless you're planning on asking a lot of questions about the same file, there's not really any point in doing the stat and then getting its properties. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Andrew Tulloch and...@tullo.ch wrote: Not sure if it's the

[julia-users] synchronous loading and asynchronous execution, elegantly?

2014-04-11 Thread David van Leeuwen
Hello, I need to compute aggregate statistics---say, the mean over columns, but later these will become more computationally intensive---for a large collection of matrices. These matrices vary in the number of rows, but have the same number of columns. I am looking for a general scheme

[julia-users] Re: GPU computing

2014-04-11 Thread andrew cooke
it's included at http://julialang.org/gsoc/2014/ On Friday, 11 April 2014 05:09:11 UTC-3, gexarcha wrote: Hi, I am trying to figure out what kind of options do I have for utilizing the GPU for high performance computing in Julia. I have seen some old

[julia-users] Re: GPU computing

2014-04-11 Thread Jake Bolewski
Hi Gexarcha, I'm the author of the OpenCL package for Julia. Although things have stalled lately do to other commitments, I think we are slowly building a pretty good story at least on the OpenCL side. I know that the library has already been used sucesfully in a handful of reasearch

[julia-users] Re: bit-twiddling micro benchmark

2014-04-11 Thread Laszlo Hars
my mistake... Can an administrator edit my post, and remove the reference to the GNU Radio, and the C code snippet? It is just a straightforward (pretty stupid) implementation of the standard, and carries no useful information. I only used it to verify the Julia CRC code results, but there are

[julia-users] Re: Implementing Gillespie's Stochastic Simulation Algorithm

2014-04-11 Thread Simon Frost
I just added a draft implementation along the lines of ODE.jl: https://github.com/sdwfrost/Gillespie.jl

[julia-users] Function naming idioms in Julia

2014-04-11 Thread Ben Racine
Hi all, I understand most of the mental maps between the common object-oriented systems (Python, JavaScript) to Julia's multiple dispatch system. But, when a function really does logically belong to its first argument, I (sometimes) find myself missing the function namespacing inherent to

Re: [julia-users] Re: Export/view movie of plots

2014-04-11 Thread Simon Kornblith
Assuming avconv or ffmpeg is available on your system, you can open a pipe to it: pipe, process = writesto(`avconv -y -f rawvideo -pix_fmt gray -s 100x100 -r 30 -i - -an -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p movie.mp4`) The options are detailed in the docs; -s is the movie size and -r is the frame

[julia-users] Re: Function naming idioms in Julia

2014-04-11 Thread Simon Kornblith
It's rarely used, but | may be what you're looking for: julia X = zeros(50, 50); julia X|size (50,50) julia X|length 2500 On Friday, April 11, 2014 6:49:16 PM UTC-4, Ben Racine wrote: Hi all, I understand most of the mental maps between the common object-oriented systems (Python,

[julia-users] Re: 1st JuliaConference: June 26th-28th, Chicago

2014-04-11 Thread Hunter Owens
@Tracy Tracy, right now, the 'main' section of the conference will be June 26th/27th at the Gleacher Centerhttp://www.chicagobooth.edu/corp/conference-facilities/gleachernear the loop (downtown). There will also be a Julia Hack Day open to the community at the University of Chicago campus in Hyde

[julia-users] Re: Function naming idioms in Julia

2014-04-11 Thread Jacques Rioux
Yes, but unfortunately, the piping operator, |, can only be applied to functions taking a single argument. I really wish it could be applied to functions of any number of elements.

Re: [julia-users] Function naming idioms in Julia

2014-04-11 Thread Jason Grout
On 4/11/14, 17:49, Ben Racine wrote: But, when a function really does logically belong to its first argument, I (sometimes) find myself missing the function namespacing inherent to those systems. I find myself wanting to do what one can do in R and inject a '.' into the function name just for