[julia-users] negative power throws error

2014-06-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
10^2 returns 100; but 10^-2 or 10^(-2) returns ERROR: DomainError in power_by_squaring at intfuncs.jl:60 in ^ at intfuncs.jl:84 do I have to use 1/10^2 instead? This seems rather stupid. is it a Bug? I am using the nightly build version downloaded a couple of days ago. I am new to Julia an

[julia-users] step function like behaviour

2014-06-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
How would one implement a step function like behaviour in julia? In mathematica one can write the following to create a circle with value of 1 within the radius and 0 outside UnitBox[Sqrt[X^2 + Y^2]*0.5/radius]; X and Y are the coordinates.

[julia-users] Re: step function like behaviour

2014-06-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I guess one can do a for loop. But how do I vectorize the code? On Friday, 6 June 2014 20:27:46 UTC-4, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > How would one implement a step function like behaviour in julia? In > mathematica one can write the following to create a circle with value of 1 > within th

Re: [julia-users] negative power throws error

2014-06-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
> that the power function produce different types of outputs for different > input values, which would make optimization/compilation difficult. > > As a side note, I think you’ll find it’s more effective not to use the > word “stupid”. > > — John > > On Jun 6, 2014,

Re: [julia-users] Re: step function like behaviour

2014-06-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
; On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Zahirul ALAM > wrote: > >> I guess one can do a for loop. But how do I vectorize the code? >> >> >> On Friday, 6 June 2014 20:27:46 UTC-4, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >>> >>> How would one implement a step function like be

Re: [julia-users] Re: step function like behaviour

2014-06-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
-- mb > > > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Zahirul ALAM > wrote: > >> I guess one can do a for loop. But how do I vectorize the code? >> >> >> On Friday, 6 June 2014 20:27:46 UTC-4, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >>> >>> How would one implement a ste

Re: [julia-users] Re: step function like behaviour

2014-06-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
> good ? 1 : 0, > sqrt(x.^2+y.^2). > > > On Friday, June 6, 2014 10:18:36 PM UTC-4, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> When I pass two arrays the function returns: >> >> type: non-boolean (BitArray{1}) used in boolean context while loading >> In[10], in expression s

Re: [julia-users] Re: step function like behaviour

2014-06-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
t; ?: > expects a boolean > > you probably want something like: > > inside_disc(x,y,radius) = map(good -> good ? 1 : 0, > sqrt(x.^2+y.^2). > > > On Friday, June 6, 2014 10:18:36 PM UTC-4, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> When I pass two arrays the function returns:

Re: [julia-users] negative power throws error

2014-06-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
White > wrote: > > No worries. After more than two years on it, I’m still figuring out what’s > the right tone for the mailing list. > > — John > > On Jun 6, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Zahirul ALAM > wrote: > > Thanks John. > > with regards to your side note, I will

Re: [julia-users] Re: step function like behaviour

2014-06-07 Thread Zahirul ALAM
est >>> of the operators from base are. >>> >>> >>> On Friday, June 6, 2014 10:58:10 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: >>> >>>> We should probably vectorize the ifelse function. >>>> >>>> On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:51

[julia-users] parallel computation question

2014-06-08 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Okay. I skimmed through the documents and previous questions and I am confused. I have a few questions: 1. One may do some sequential evaluation followed by parallel operation on the same set of data. I see how one creats a distributed array. But how would I distribute already existing variable

[julia-users] what is wrong in my code: pmap and @parallel

2014-06-10 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I need help in understanding what am I doing wrong in each of the following cases: @everywhere function f2 (x, y) return x + 1 + y end dArray = dzeros(5) @parallel for i=1:5 b= map(f2, [x, x]) push!(dArray, b) end dArray returns are still zero and the dimensions have not changed -

[julia-users] selecting all rows or all columns

2014-06-10 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I have a simple question: How do I select all columns or particular columns from a matrix. it is very straightforward to select a row. I have been struggling for the last two hours. how do I do this? the manual does not seem to talk about it. or am I missing it?

[julia-users] Re: selecting all rows or all columns

2014-06-10 Thread Zahirul ALAM
3 6 > > First 2 rows, 2nd and 4th column: > julia> x[1:2, [2,4]] > 2x2 Array{Int64,2}: > 2 4 > 4 8 > > On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 5:46:33 PM UTC-7, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> I have a simple question: How do I select all columns or particular >> co

Re: [julia-users] what is wrong in my code: pmap and @parallel

2014-06-10 Thread Zahirul ALAM
> For the darray, push! is not implemented for a darray - a darray cannot be > grown once instantiated. > > > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Zahirul ALAM > wrote: > >> I need help in understanding what am I doing wrong in each of the >> following

[julia-users] plan_fft error: FFTW plan applied to wrong-size array

2014-06-13 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I am baffled by this error : "FFTW plan applied to wrong-size array". i am using the plan fft in the following way: testField = rand(512, 512) .+ rand(512, 512)*im fastFFT = plan_fft(testField, [1:2], FFTW.PATIENT) the problem is when I apply fastFFT to an array A it does the fft and do not co

[julia-users] Thank you Julia!

2014-06-15 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I have finished writing my first real Julia program (800 lines of code). I am using it to solve a nonlinear optics problem. It took me roughly eight days to move my code from Mathematica to Julia. I have spent most of my time (five out of eight days) in debugging and playing with different IDE

[julia-users] Re: Arrayfire and Julia

2015-09-28 Thread Zahirul ALAM
t, > but that could change in the future. For now, we are putting out what we > have done. > > https://github.com/JuliaComputing/ArrayFire.jl > > -viral > > On Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 10:17:45 AM UTC+5:30, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> I second this. >>

[julia-users] Re: holoviews in julia

2015-04-04 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I just checked out the holoviews. This is awsome. may be @pyimport will help? On Saturday, 4 April 2015 19:47:02 UTC-4, Philipp Rudiger wrote: > > Great to see this is getting some interest. I'm one of the authors of > HoloViews and put together that initial (and poor) attempt at a Julia > inte

[julia-users] Re: holoviews in julia

2015-04-04 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I just checked out the holoviews. This is awsome. may be @pyimport will help? On Saturday, 4 April 2015 19:47:02 UTC-4, Philipp Rudiger wrote: > > Great to see this is getting some interest. I'm one of the authors of > HoloViews and put together that initial (and poor) attempt at a Julia > inte

[julia-users] simultaneous minima of a set of function

2015-04-09 Thread Zahirul ALAM
This question is related to Julia and general function minimization techniques. if I have two function f(x, y) and g(x, y). How would one find the value of x, and y that minimizes both functions simultaneously? I understand to the limit this is equal to finding roots if both functions are prope

[julia-users] A Julia newsletter

2015-04-11 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I want to start a Julia newsletter. At this moment it will be a monthly or biweekly publication distributed over e-mails. In the long run it will become a weekly publication. I want some community feedback. Please share your thoughts with regards to the type of contents, the style of the public

[julia-users] Re: A Julia newsletter

2015-04-12 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Thanks Viral. On Sunday, 12 April 2015 02:29:50 UTC-4, Viral Shah wrote: > > Do see "This month in Julia" on Reddit. For some reason, I am unable to > paste a link in my browser at the moment. > > -viral > > On Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 9:56:05 AM UTC+5:30, Zahi

Re: [julia-users] A Julia newsletter

2015-04-12 Thread Zahirul ALAM
work through it. > > Best, > > Tamas > > On Sun, Apr 12 2015, Zahirul ALAM > > wrote: > > > I want to start a Julia newsletter. At this moment it will be a monthly > or > > biweekly publication distributed over e-mails. In the long run it will

[julia-users] Re: A Julia newsletter

2015-04-12 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Thanks for the suggestions. I agree with cormu...@mac.com. I see it as a web based publication of some kind. Whether we communicate the new issue using RSS feed or e-mailing TOC is something to think about. That would address the preference of Tamas. Maybe we want to have both, so that people

[julia-users] ArrayFire with Julia

2015-06-02 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I asked this question a while ago. Has anybody tried to use the ArrayFire library from Julia, or is anybody working on a wrapper? ArrayFire has released version 3.

[julia-users] Re: output suppression bug

2014-07-15 Thread Zahirul ALAM
am I doing something worng? On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 14:36:47 UTC-4, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > the following line of code does not suppress output. > > a = λ ; #comment > > however > > a = λ ; does suppress output >

[julia-users] output suppression bug

2014-07-15 Thread Zahirul ALAM
the following line of code does not suppress output. a = λ ; #comment however a = λ ; does suppress output

Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia with LightTable

2014-07-21 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I have it in the following way :app [(:lt.objs.style/set-skin "dark") (:lt.objs.langs.julia/julia-path "C:\\Julia\\bin\\julia.exe") ] and it works On Sunday, 20 July 2014 22:15:15 UTC-4, Diego Tapias wrote: > > Thank you @Joshua. That's what I got (I have followed the

[julia-users] Re: Juila vs Mathematica (Wolfram language): high-level features

2014-07-21 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I have been using Mathematica regularly for five years now and I am a new user of Julia. As a first serious project I have used Julia to simulate a nonlinear optical pulse propagation problem. I originally have written the codes in Mathematica. The simulation time in Julia was roughly eight time

Re: [julia-users] Re: Juila vs Mathematica (Wolfram language): high-level features

2014-07-21 Thread Zahirul ALAM
t ( two types I tend to use the most). I am sure it will only get improved. On Monday, 21 July 2014 14:48:17 UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Zahirul ALAM > wrote: > >> One feature I would like to see from IJulia may be is that the input of &

Re: [julia-users] Re: Juila vs Mathematica (Wolfram language): high-level features

2014-07-22 Thread Zahirul ALAM
u need. > > // T > > On Monday, July 21, 2014 11:09:31 PM UTC+2, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> Thanks Stefan. I did find out that I can type \alpha for Unicode α. >> My point was more to do with the "traditional" input / output mode. >> >> btw

[julia-users] Re: RFC: Highlighting organizations on pkg.julialang.org

2014-07-28 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I like it. I think the search will be a bit more useful if it also does keyword search. If I am looking for a package, I am unlikely to know the name of the package. On Monday, 28 July 2014 00:19:26 UTC-4, Iain Dunning wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been experimenting with trying to highlight orga

[julia-users] PyPlot tick issue

2014-08-05 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I am trying to manually set the tick frequency: xticks([0.0, 1.0, 2.0]) works fine however, yticks([0.0, 1.0, 2.0]) throws the following error type: apply: expected Function, got Array{Float64,1} Use square brackets [] for indexing. while loading In[21], in expression starting on line 8 in geti

[julia-users] Re: PyPlot tick issue

2014-08-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I am not sure what happened. I have now restarted the computer and it seems to work fine. As always your help is highly appreciated. On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 12:52:03 UTC-4, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > (Maybe you've accidentally declared a variable named "yticks"?) >

[julia-users] Re: PyPlot tick issue

2014-08-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Let us blame Microsoft for the moment :) . I am running Windows 7, Python 3.4 and matplotlib 1.3.1. On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 04:30:24 UTC-4, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > I am not sure what happened. I have now restarted the computer and it > seems to work fine. As always your help

[julia-users] Re: PyPlot tick issue

2014-08-06 Thread Zahirul ALAM
You are correct. I was able to reproduce the error by first writing yticks = ([1, 2, 3]) and then correcting the syntax to yticks ([1, 2, 3]) returns the error. On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 04:37:25 UTC-4, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > Let us blame Microsoft for the moment :) . I am running Win

[julia-users] calculating limit of a function

2014-08-10 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Is there way of calculating limit of a function? I have tried SymPy Package. But it unfortunately doesnot compute limit for bessel function. r= Sym("r") limit(besselj(1, r)/r, r, 0) returns the following error: `besselj` has no method matching besselj(::Int64, ::Sym) while loading In[27], in

[julia-users] Re: calculating limit of a function

2014-08-12 Thread Zahirul ALAM
gt; julia> @pyimport sympy >> >> julia> x = sympy.symbols("x") >> >> julia> sympy.limit(sympy.besselj(1, x)/x, x, 0.0) >> `/` has no method matching /(::PyObject, ::PyObject) >> >> So the problem seems to be with how PyCa

[julia-users] Re: LibCURL does not build...

2014-09-03 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I am having exactly the same problem: LibCurl and Nettle does not build and I suppose this is causing the kernel in iJulia to repeatedly die. The irony is that I just re-installed my OS. On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 12:21:04 UTC-7, Kevin W Li wrote: > > This happened when I Pkg.add("IJulia"

[julia-users] Re: Difficulty building Nettle

2014-09-04 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I found no such file. in the specified folder I have build.jl On Thursday, 4 September 2014 12:50:25 UTC-7, Joshua Job wrote: > > For anyone who may have issues in the future, you can simply add > >> @checked_lib nettle "/path/to/libnettle.so" >> > in .julia/v0.3/Nettle/deps/deps.jl regardless of

[julia-users] using filter function

2014-11-03 Thread Zahirul ALAM
The documentation says: filter(function, collection) Return a copy of collection, removing elements for which function is false. For associative collections, the function is passed two arguments (key and value). how to write the fucntion? I am trying to get elements which are nonzero. Any Help

[julia-users] Re: using filter function

2014-11-03 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Thank You. Thank You. Thank You On Monday, 3 November 2014 10:15:09 UTC-5, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > The documentation says: > > filter(function, collection) > Return a copy of collection, removing elements for which function is > false. For associative collections, > the f

[julia-users] Arrayfire and Julia

2014-11-14 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Arrayfire has a large library for GPU computing. They have decided to make their codes open source. I am hoping that someone much more able than me will write some sort of wrapper to use the Arrayfire library in Julia. Here is the github link: https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire

[julia-users] Re: Arrayfire and Julia

2014-11-14 Thread Zahirul ALAM
ould be a pretty direct translation > of their C API. > > > On Friday, November 14, 2014 2:59:01 PM UTC-8, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> Arrayfire has a large library for GPU computing. They have decided to >> make their codes open source. I am hoping that someone much more ab

[julia-users] Re: Arrayfire and Julia

2014-11-17 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I second this. On Monday, 17 November 2014 12:27:43 UTC-5, Test This wrote: > > Happy to see thus reaction from a core julia developer. Hope julia makes > parallel programming on CPUs and GPUs easier. >

[julia-users] Re: Arrayfire and Julia

2014-11-17 Thread Zahirul ALAM
call too from C, from the examples on their github page, and > that is good news for us. > > -viral > > On Saturday, November 15, 2014 5:22:17 AM UTC+5:30, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> thanks. I have been using Julia for five months or so. I have not used >> the ccal

[julia-users] clearing variable/const and location of a syntax error

2014-12-31 Thread Zahirul ALAM
how would one clear values of variable, or change the type: for instance if I declare a = 5 and after evaluation, if I fix the statement reevaluate const a = 5, I get error that a is already defined. How would I get a out of the memory without restarting the entire kernel? Second question is if

[julia-users] weird 2D fft error: returns NaN error

2014-12-31 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Happy new year!! I am encountering a very odd fft error. I am trying fft NxN data. The data is produced using a mathematical equation. After debugging I have found that the following expression is gives NaN error: fft(besselj(1, sqrt(X.^2+Y.^2))./sqrt(X.^2+Y.^2)) where X and Y are Array{Floa

[julia-users] Re: weird 2D fft error: returns NaN error

2014-12-31 Thread Zahirul ALAM
I found the reason because both arrays contains (0, 0). Is there way around it? On Thursday, 1 January 2015 00:50:56 UTC-5, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > Happy new year!! > > I am encountering a very odd fft error. I am trying fft NxN data. The data > is produced using a mathematical

[julia-users] Re: weird 2D fft error: returns NaN error

2014-12-31 Thread Zahirul ALAM
may be not On Thursday, 1 January 2015 01:05:02 UTC-5, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > I found the reason because both arrays contains (0, 0). Is there way > around it? > > On Thursday, 1 January 2015 00:50:56 UTC-5, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> Happy new year!! >> &g

[julia-users] Re: weird 2D fft error: returns NaN error

2014-12-31 Thread Zahirul ALAM
any help please On Thursday, 1 January 2015 01:07:33 UTC-5, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > may be not > > On Thursday, 1 January 2015 01:05:02 UTC-5, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> I found the reason because both arrays contains (0, 0). Is there way >> around it? >> >

[julia-users] Re: weird 2D fft error: returns NaN error

2014-12-31 Thread Zahirul ALAM
There is a NaN item at the very centre. How to deal with it? On Thursday, 1 January 2015 02:25:34 UTC-5, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > any help please > > On Thursday, 1 January 2015 01:07:33 UTC-5, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> may be not >> >> On Thursday, 1 Janua

[julia-users] Re: weird 2D fft error: returns NaN error

2015-01-01 Thread Zahirul ALAM
"both > arrays to contain (0,0)" but if there is an i,j such that X[i,j] == 0 && > Y[i,j] == 0, then sqrt(X.^2+ > Y.^2) will have a zero at i,j. > > > On Thursday, January 1, 2015 2:30:55 AM UTC-5, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> There is a NaN item at th

Re: [julia-users] clearing variable/const and location of a syntax error

2015-01-01 Thread Zahirul ALAM
open issues about better >>> error messages although I don't remember one about this specifically. It >>> will probably be a bit more tractable as an up-for-grabs project if/when we >>> move to the pure-Julia parser. >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 31,

[julia-users] Re: FE solver in Julia fast and faster

2015-01-10 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Very good. is the url https://github.com/PetrKryslUCSD/jfineale_for_trying_out still valid for the new optimized version? may be you will release this as a package? On Friday, 9 January 2015 21:42:24 UTC-5, Petr Krysl wrote: > > Hello all, > > Big thanks to Tim Holy and Andreas Noack. The FE so

[julia-users] Re: FE solver in Julia fast and faster

2015-01-10 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Also documentation will be immesely helpful for mortals like me. I would like to use this for optics problems On Saturday, 10 January 2015 13:40:34 UTC-5, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > Very good. is the url > https://github.com/PetrKryslUCSD/jfineale_for_trying_out still valid for

[julia-users] Error: Kernel dead in Jupyter

2016-03-28 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Hi, I installed Julia in a windows 10 machine and I get the following error when I try to run IJulia notebook. I could not find any related post. using Julia version 4.5. I got very pissed at Windows and went ahead did a clean reinstall but the problem will not go away. Surely it is a bug somew

[julia-users] Re: Error: Kernel dead in Jupyter

2016-03-30 Thread Zahirul ALAM
Yea. This has fixed it. Thanks a lot to looking into it promptly. On Tuesday, 29 March 2016 06:56:46 UTC-4, Tony Kelman wrote: > > This should be resolved upstream by > https://build.opensuse.org/package/rdiff/windows:mingw:win64/mingw64-runtime?linkrev=base&rev=40 > In a fee hours when everyt

[julia-users] Thanks Julia

2016-06-03 Thread M. Zahirul ALAM
I have started using Julia roughly two summers ago. I have been visiting this forum ever since looking for answers and tips. You guys have been incredible. I have used 80 percent of the of the calculations for the following paper using Julia. Sadly, during the final revision, we had to take the

[julia-users] Re: Thanks Julia

2016-06-03 Thread M. Zahirul ALAM
y going to University of Arizona to study the > topic back in 1994 :) > > On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 10:37:54 PM UTC+8, M. Zahirul ALAM wrote: >> >> I have started using Julia roughly two summers ago. I have been visiting >> this forum ever since looking for answers