On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 15:19:47 -0800 (PST), Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Dec 8, 4:07 am, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Well, its past 'tonight' and 6 hours to go till past 'tomorrow'. >> > Where the hell is it Zah Zah? >> >> Note that this program takes several days to compute in Mathematica (even >> though it takes under four seconds in other languages) so don't expect to >> see a genuinely optimized version any time soon... ;-) > >Note that Jon's Mathematica code is of very poor quality, as i've >given detailed analysis here: > > A Mathematica Optimization Problem > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/Mathematica_optimization.html > >I'm not sure he's intentionally making Mathematica look bad or just >sloppiness. I presume it is sloppiness, since the Mathematica code is >not shown in his public website on this speed comparison issue. (as >far as i know) I suppose, he initialled tried this draft version, saw >that it is too slow for comparsion, and probably among other reason he >didn't include it in the speed comparison. However, in this thread >about Mathematica 7, he wanted to insert his random gribe to pave >roads to post his website books and url on OCml/f#, so he took out >this piece of Mathematica to bad mouth it and bait. He ignored my >paypal challenge, but it so happens that someone else paid me $20 to >show a better code, and in the showdown, Jon went defensive that just >make him looking like a major idiot. > > Xah >? http://xahlee.org/ > >? Ad hominem -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
