[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-10 Thread Carlos Becker
Hi Andrew, my slides are here, https://sites.google.com/site/carlosbecker/a-few-notes , they are for v0.3: If you need the openoffice original let me know, I can send it to you. Cheers. El miércoles, 9 de septiembre de 2015, 14:07:36 (UTC+2), andrew cooke escribió: > > ok, thanks everyone

[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-10 Thread Jeffrey Sarnoff
if you want to get into it, immutable Complex ... end does what type Complex ... end does with the added benefit of behaving more as Float64 does with respect to memory and access at the price of not being able to change its component values and none of that is needed, though it does make a

[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-10 Thread Jeffrey Sarnoff
type Complex{ T<:AbstractFloat } <: Number x::T y::T end On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 7:18:13 AM UTC-4, andrew cooke wrote: > > thanks (how does someone working on embedded c++ get to work with > adaboost?!) > > what i am actually going with is a bunch of links to examples

[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-10 Thread andrew cooke
thanks (how does someone working on embedded c++ get to work with adaboost?!) what i am actually going with is a bunch of links to examples (i can email this to everyone before the talk, which will be over google meetup): (if anyone has corrections to what follows in the next few hours i am

[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-10 Thread andrew cooke
oops, yes thanks. On Thursday, 10 September 2015 08:42:01 UTC-3, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: > > if you want to get into it, > > immutable Complex ... end > > does what type Complex ... end does with the added benefit of behaving > more as Float64 does with respect to memory and access at the price

[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-09 Thread cormullion
google for Carlos Becker's Julia presentation -- nice looking short presentation comparing Julia with Matlab.

[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-09 Thread andrew cooke
ok, thanks everyone i'll have a look at all those. andrew On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 17:58:33 UTC-3, 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

[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Sarnoff
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

[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-08 Thread andrew cooke
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

[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Sarnoff
Here is one place to look svaksha's list of slide presentations . 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

[julia-users] Re: Good, short set of slides introducing Julia

2015-09-08 Thread cdm
maybe helpful, maybe not ... some links from the main Julia page: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/julialang.org/benchmarks.ipynb http://julialang.org/benchmarks.csv obviously, the most "famous" collection of the benchmark data from the "High-Performance JIT Compiler" section of the