Category: Matlab

• Psychtoolbox – Now available for 64-bit Linux

  PsychToolboxhas resisted the upgrade to a 64-bit codebase for some time. The recent 3.0.9 update introduces 64-bit support on Linux only, and Mario Kleiner promises that in this version, […] the extra bits provide you with 50% higher effect sizes, higher d’ and greater levels of significance with less subjects, whatever you’re measuring. Well maybe…

  July 21, 2011

• Speeding up numeric code: McFor and Theano

  Matlab has high-level language constructs that make it easy to express linear algebra computations in a terse, intuitive syntax. Its flexibility as a scripting language, however, means that it has underwhelming performance in some circumstances. While Matlab’s just-in-time (JIT) compiler helps quite a bit, research has shown that there is much space for performance improvements.…

  July 7, 2011