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.

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

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.

  Written in the productivity language Julia, the Celeste project—which aims to catalogue all of the telescope data for the stars and galaxies in in t... (more…)

julia - The Julia Language: A fresh approach to technical computing. (more…)