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Julia: A Modern Language for Modern ML

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Simon Byrne and Viral Shah talk about Julia, a modern high-performance, dynamic language for technical computing, with many features which make it ideal for machine learning, including just-in-time (JIT) compilation, multiple dispatch, metaprogramming and easy to use parallelism. They demonstrate these features, as well as the tools to deploy these models at large scale.

Bio

Simon Byrne is a quantitative software developer at Julia Computing, where he implements cutting edge numerical routines for statistical and financial models. Viral Shah is co-founder and CEO of Julia Computing and a co-creator of the Julia language. The Julia user base is now over 200,000 users.

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Software is changing the world. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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Nov 08, 2017

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