On Jan 10, 11:49 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 2:45 AM, mabshoff
>
>
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> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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 think "ambitious" can still be in there.
> > 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!
Hehe, I am back to living on PST, so it was a long, long night. But I
will *now* catch some sleep and be back in a couple hours to comment
some more one the proposal (if I find anything)
> William
Cheers,
Michael
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