cdsousa
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Comment · 3 years ago
Wrong link, no? Shouldn't it be https://discourse.julialang.org/t/one-does-not-simply-walk-i... ?
Comment · 3 years ago
We are free to come up with myths about the name origin. My favorite one is that it comes from Julia character of George Orwell's 1984 novel :D
Comment · 5 years ago
This presentation is only a few days old.
Comment · 5 years ago
Julia multiple dispatch allows dynamic polymorphism.
Check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1801216/what-is-the-diff... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY
Comment · 6 years ago
This is very good news for people like me who would like to play with GPU kernels and arrays but usually have no access to NVIDIA/AMD hardware. (Although specific Intel hardware and Linux is being required for now.)
I'm waiting for KernelAbstractions.jl integration.
Comment · 6 years ago
AFAIK it is the opposite of what you have said. And although Julia has a lot of inspiration of Matlab syntax, it is absolutely not derived from it. https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
Comment · 6 years ago
That's right, I found it: https://docs.cupy.dev/en/stable/tutorial/kernel.html#kernel-...
Comment · 6 years ago
"""
[...] it is possible to perform kernel-like operations without actually writing your own GPU kernels:
a = CUDA.zeros(1024)
b = CUDA.ones(1024)
a.^2 .+ sin.(b)
""" [https://juliagpu.gitlab.io/CUDA.jl/usage/overview/#The-CuArr...]
As far as I know, that example code creates an ad-hoc kernel that performs the computation in a single pass.
I honestly don't know if that is possible in other frameworks.
Comment · 7 years ago
Or maybe it should be "When on an online discussion someone mentions Julia, the probability of that discussion turning into a 0-based versus 1-based indexing discussion is 1"
Comment · 7 years ago
There seems to be a kind of Godwin's law for Julia that states that "When on an online discussion someone mentions Julia, the probability of a complaint about 1-based indexing is 1".
Comment · 8 years ago
That is pretty amazing! I wonder how would it look like if it was written in C. Anyone has some links to "Blobs" implementations in C?
Comment · 8 years ago
In part, the fact that there are major problems moving the "giant" to where one would like (speed), e.g., unladen swallow, pypy, pyston, ...