On Jan 10, 2008 2:45 AM, mabshoff
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> 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 think my brain rotted as a result of being an exhibitor at conference booth
for the last few days surrounded by ... you know. Anyway, how about this
as an alternative: "\item This computer is the home for Sage (see
Section~\ref{sage}),
which is an open source mathematical software development project." ?
> 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.
Well I can tell you I'm definitely overly tired!
William
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