On Jan 10, 10:37 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In 12 hours I will submit the SCREMS proposal I mentioned a few days ago,
> which
> would get us two very nice 128GB 16 x 3Ghz servers.
>
> I've substantially updated the proposal, including a new major section by the
> E8
> ATLAS group, actually filling in the budget and summary, etc. It's here:
>
> http://sage.math.washington.edu/grants/screms
>
> Please let me know about any typos you find, any problems you see with
> the wording, or anything else. (Note -- I am aware that several references
> to papers are not done right now.)
On the first page of the project description you write: "This computer
is the home for Sage (see Section 3), which is by far the most
ambitious open source mathematical software development project ever."
While I think Sage is ambitious I wouldn't call it "by far the most
ambitious open source mathematical software development project ever"
- and dial that sentence down a little like "a very ambitious open
source mathematical software development project". The original
sentence sounds a little like the hyperbole Mathematica spreads around
that makes me laugh. I mean you cannot criticize and laugh about
sentences like "Mathematica is the world's most powerful global
computation system." [which is complete nonsense and utterly false]
and then write the above description of Sage. I might just be overly
tired and cranky, so I am catching some sleep now.
> Thanks!
Cheers,
Michael
> -- William, B. Binegar, M. Rubinstein, C. Doran, R. Miller
>
> --
> William Stein
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
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