“I started using Julia when a friend pointed me to a blog demonstrating efficient implementation of a restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) with less than 2x overhead compared with C. So one weekend when I was sick and alone at home, I played with Julia and I was sold.”

"Coming from using Matlab, Julia was pretty easy, and I was surprised by how easy it was to write pretty fast code. Obviously the speed, conciseness and dynamic nature of Julia is a big plus and the initial draw, but there are other perhaps unexpected benefits. For example, I’ve learned …