I tried to explain a bit to Schilly, but I'll try to explain the mix of being competent then incompetent. So first, I've spend most of my time living in a rural area (didn't do much on computers except elementary school (which sucked by the way; it was a lousy catholic school... it's weird that Notre Dame is even in Indiana) until about 2010.) I did spend a lot of time reading nonfiction, though that probably came through my fascination with dirt bikes. I was bored most of the time with schoolwork, and lack of anything fun to do led to "behavioral problems". I'll also point out that I happened to know more about mathematics during classes than my classmates, so I probably was either inflated or dismissive. I needed help *computing* answers, though, mostly because I didn't care to learn multiplication tables or other specific topics, like completing the square for factoring. Anyway, I guess my folks decided I needed to do something with my time, and I became a cub scout (which is preliminary to Boy Scouting). I would go spend most of my nights doing this, and later on I would be more active in leadership. Many of my friends were programmers, and others were more "experimental scientists". Eventually I would try to do something on my own, and I began with Python. I think I first heard of Sage while browsing through either the FSF or Python websites in 2013 or so. (I wouldn't actually use it 'til last Christmas.) During Christmas break, I was going through some differential equations material when I decided to use something other than Microsoft Mathematics / Wolfram Alpha for computation. I decided against Octave simply because I already had minimal experience with Python. When I remembered Sage, I found that nothing had changed. I found many broken links and confusing information on the site, so then I googled for more info. I found weird, and seemingly irrelevant results, such as the announcement that (Stein) was "leaving academia to start a company". Obviously now, that meant that *.math.washington.edu had been taken down. I looked through the Developer Guide to see if it would be an easy fix to make information consistent, but I only found a git and Trac tutorial. Since I wasn't planning to write new code for the program (I had given up at loops and using libraries because of syntax), I asked Schilly if there was someone/some way that would fix the problem. I never received a satisfying answer, so I asked you (Stein) if there were copies of files so that I could replace links with those files. I wasn't just planning to update what we have domain over, but also updating information on, say, the Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SageMath> page (I asked the person who had broken links if there was an original copy to interfacing Mathematica with Sage, etc.). So here I am now, still confused as to where anything is supposed to be, while attempting to refrain asking people directly about how to fix it. These are small things that are the source of confusion: I don't know what is going on or how to start because I don't know *where to start*. As you remember, I've been pursuing some things, like confirming that the combinat.sagemath.org doesn't have a website, though it is a machine.
As for my computer, I wrongly assumed that one of my five siblings wouldn't touch it while I was compiling a friend's program. I take blame. I wholly apologize for causing any trouble that may be attributed to being naive. On Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 11:26:54 AM UTC-5, William wrote: > > > ... bathroom break... > > Lock your computer properly when not in use, and use a good password. > Full disk encrypt your hard drive. > You're making me very nervous about any computer account access I may have > given you... > > What is your motivation for cleanin up the sage website stuff? What is > your background? > > William > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 8:16 AM Matthew Rennekamp <miste...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Thiery, extremely sorry. I can make the pages that were deleted and >> redirect them to where I moved content. (Eg specifically [[pics]] and >> [[animate]] to [[art]], noting that [[interact]] has been left alone. >> As for the links that were on SageForHighSchool, someone must've messed >> with my computer during a bathroom break. I'll try to fix these problems as >> soon as I can. >> >> As for Pasechnik, wiki.sagemath.org/Infrastructure doesn't help at all. >> Sure, I knew that there is documentation inside Sage, but I was sure that >> the tutorials were purely online. Sure, "hosted" doesn't mean that. But it >> seems that I'm the first to complain about the information that's online >> not helping idiots like me (the more I try to find answers to the questions >> I have -without directly asking, and even then who to ask - the less I >> understand or know about this as a whole). >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
