I wished to do some machine learning for binary classification. Binary classification is perhaps the most basic of all supervised learning problems. Unsurprisingly julia has many libraries for it. Today we are looking at: LIBLINEAR (linear SVMs), LIBSVM (... (more…)

Comparing simple simulations in Julia, Nim, C++ and R - julia_nim_cpp_r_sir.md... (more…)

These days, I find myself evangelizing for Julia quite a bit. It’s a good language, especially for scientific computing, but I believe its focus on performance also makes it a good general language as well. At some level, programmers who know multiple lan... (more…)

Distributed table structures and data manipulation operations built on top of Dagger.jl - GitHub - JuliaParallel/DTables.jl: Distributed table structures and data manipulation operations built on t... (more…)

New “Pkg & Storage protocols” and an accompanying centralized service to host packages have been merged and are present in Julia v1.5.0-rc1. The new Pkg sends telemetry consisting of a user-specific UUID and other information to the server, where it i... (more…)