Re: [julia-users] Re: optim stopping without reaching convergence

2016-01-25 Thread Brendan Tracey
We have an alternate implementation at gonum that's BSD. https://godoc.org/github.com/gonum/optimize#NelderMead Should be pretty easy to wrap your function through command line calls. I'm happy to help if you'd like it. On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 3:39:16 AM UTC-7, Tim Holy wrote: > > If you

[julia-users] Re: Fw: Fwd: [External-faculty] Silicon Valley Start-Up Software Engineer Position

2015-12-03 Thread Brendan Tracey
I got that email too!

Re: [julia-users] Re: Order of multiple for-loops

2015-10-30 Thread Brendan Tracey
On Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 9:11:27 PM UTC-6, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 1:24:23 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >> >> Yes, this is an unfortunate consequence of mathematics being column-major >> – oh how I wish it weren't so. >> > > I'm not sure wh

[julia-users] Re: Help on optimization problem

2015-10-23 Thread Brendan Tracey
> 2. (JuMP Specific) - Should I specify my known positions as model > variables with equality constraints, or just normal julia variables that > show up in my objective function? > Don't specify them as equality constraints. Build your function with those variables removed from the optimizat

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

2015-10-23 Thread Brendan Tracey
On Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7:38:37 AM UTC-6, Abe Schneider wrote: > > An OO approach is really just specifying an interface in a formal manner. > The second you write any type of interface, you always risk making a choice > that will haunt you down the road. I don't see the difference between

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

2015-10-23 Thread Brendan Tracey
On Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7:22:28 AM UTC-6, Abe Schneider wrote: > > Ah, okay, that is different then. What's the advantage of creating a new > method versus copying the fields? I would imagine there is a penalty with > each deference you have to follow in order to make that work. > The a

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

2015-10-22 Thread Brendan Tracey
> I do like this approach to composition/delegation, but it requires > automatically adding a lot of methods to the delegator, i.e. Unicycle in > this example, from all of its components, which feels kind of nasty and > dangerous, especially since we allow dynamic addition of methods > after

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

2015-10-20 Thread Brendan Tracey
On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 3:39:00 PM UTC-6, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > ScalaJulia is a skunkworks project Martin and I have been working on for a > while now. The hardest part so far has been deciding between whether to > call it ScalaJulia or JuliaScala. Other names we considered: Julal

[julia-users] Re: lu factorization with partial pivoting

2015-09-09 Thread Brendan Tracey
The documentation for lu(A) says " lu(*A*) → L, U, p Compute the LU factorization of A, such that A[p,:] = L*U. " This is an LU decomposition with partial pivoting. The P matrix is the pivot table.