Have you ever wondered how the app Prisma manages to turn your photos into impressionist paintings? They use, amongst other things, a special type of algorithm called neural styles.

Celeste, a statistical analysis model designed to enhance one of modern astronomy’s most time-tested tools—sky surveys—has gotten a major upgrade that dramatically scales up the process of cataloging astronomical objects.

Visual demo of how a Julia set ( c=.274-.008i) can be generated from repeated transformations of a circle. Please see http://www.karlsims.com/julia.html for ... (more…)

We invite you to take part in the free FlyElephant Webinar (Julia - a fresh approach to numerical computing and data science) on Wednesday, March 20, 9:00 AM (PST) / 19:00 (EET). Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for tec... (more…)

After a lengthy design process and preliminary foundations in Julia 0.5, Julia 0.6 includes new facilities for writing code in the “vectorized” style (familiar from Matlab, Numpy, R, etcetera) while avoiding the overhead that this style of programming...