 showing up at 9 a.m. on a Saturday I am Viral Shah I am one of the co-inventors of the Julia language and we even have you know we have Shashi out here who is the core Julia contributor we have Ravi Mohan out here who is also a Julia contributor now and as you can see the Julia community in Bangalore has already grown threefold last year it would have been just me maybe giving this talk today we are three Julia people out here are there others that I do not know of maybe anyone else who has tried out Julia has used it out here okay just a okay Julia box okay okay so some okay what have you done with Julia just kind of test the waters okay alright so you know this is functional conference right so I am I guess I should really be talking about some functional aspects of Julia and stuff like that but I mean I think you guys all know all that stuff right your maps and folds and filters and I am not a huge fan of them anyways so what I am what I am planning to do is I have a whole bunch of demos actually and hopefully these will motivate you know why Julia why did we even start why did we even need a new language and what are some of the design criteria the design things that we went through and it is what I think we what I would like to do is make this completely interactive to as much of an extent as possible so that you know it is not just me giving a monologue but I really like sort of people to ask questions as we go along challenge me on stuff I will try to say stuff that hopefully will evoke people to challenge me yeah so with that let me start off so Julia today some of you might wonder right where it is what what it is why you know why is it even interesting the Julia community is about a hundred thousand users today is our estimate at a pessimistic level it's being taught in about probably you know 30 to 50 universities as course material it's you know IIT Bombay yesterday came out there was an article in economic times IIT Bombay had this hundred dollar laptop anyone saw that article or heard about this hundred dollar laptop so they just get clone Julia and type make and eight hours later Julia was running on the hundred dollar you know IIT laptop the arm book so you know people are just kind of taking Julia putting it on Raspberry Pi's putting it on netbooks putting it on you know their servers putting it on you know doing their analytics people are doing all kinds of stuff people are using it for research and I'd like to maybe mention a couple of very interesting use cases I don't actually have real slides I just have a bunch of I Python notebooks so I'll just talk about some of the use cases that I've seen people using.