[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-24 Thread Minh Nguyen
William Stein wrote: > Cool!! Do they explain why Sage gets a relatively low rating, e.g. > Scilab gets 9 but Sage 6? Is it because of the relative lack of our > focus on numerics? Not quite, although it must be noted that the primary focus of Will Tribbey, the reviewer, was numerical computin

[sage-devel] Re: notebook jumping when @interacts are updated

2008-10-24 Thread Jason Grout
Craig Citro wrote: >> Craig, why do you think it would be really nice anyway? >> > > In general, I'd just like to be able to scroll something to the top of > the browser window, even if it's the last cell I've created. I > understand I can do this by making a bunch of empty cells, but that > look

[sage-devel] Re: notebook jumping when @interacts are updated

2008-10-24 Thread Craig Citro
> Craig, why do you think it would be really nice anyway? > In general, I'd just like to be able to scroll something to the top of the browser window, even if it's the last cell I've created. I understand I can do this by making a bunch of empty cells, but that looks *really* stupid. Also, if I'm

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-24 Thread Craig Citro
> By the way, I'm not quite sure what "SVD" and "FFT" refer to. > I'm guessing it's "Singular Value Decomposition" and "Fast Fourier Transform." -cc --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this gr

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-24 Thread William Stein
Cool!! Do they explain why Sage gets a relatively low rating, e.g. Scilab gets 9 but Sage 6? Is it because of the relative lack of our focus on numerics? On 10/24/08, Minh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > This morning I received issue 109, September 2008, of "Linux Format" >

[sage-devel] Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-24 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, This morning I received issue 109, September 2008, of "Linux Format" magazine (dead tree version). Down under in Australia, we do have to wait quite some time for overseas magazines to arrive. And when they appear on the news stand at my local magazines store, the "latest issues" of Lin

[sage-devel] Re: notebook jumping when @interacts are updated

2008-10-24 Thread Jason Grout
Craig Citro wrote: >> Could we just put a big chunk of blank space at the bottom of the worksheet? >> I.e., just always make it so worksheets have a big blank space below them? >> I think i wouldn't be opposed to this, and your conversation seemed to >> suggest >> it would work. >> > > I think t

[sage-devel] Re: notebook jumping when @interacts are updated

2008-10-24 Thread Craig Citro
> Could we just put a big chunk of blank space at the bottom of the worksheet? > I.e., just always make it so worksheets have a big blank space below them? > I think i wouldn't be opposed to this, and your conversation seemed to suggest > it would work. > I think this would be really nice, indepe

[sage-devel] Re: notebook jumping when @interacts are updated

2008-10-24 Thread William Stein
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jason Grout wrote: >> Jason Grout wrote: >>> Jason Grout wrote: From playing with putting alerts into the javascript code, the jump seems to occur exactly when the innerHTML is replaced in set_output_text j

[sage-devel] Re: notebook jumping when @interacts are updated

2008-10-24 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: > Jason Grout wrote: >> Jason Grout wrote: >>> From playing with putting alerts into the javascript code, the jump >>> seems to occur exactly when the innerHTML is replaced in set_output_text >>> javascript function, in the following lines: >>> >>> >>> if (new_intera

[sage-devel] Re: insane system call activity.

2008-10-24 Thread Georg S. Weber
Hi, On 24 Okt., 01:00, Willem Jan Palenstijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:20:42PM -0700, Georg S. Weber wrote: > > 3. Even the innocent line > > >    sage: time for i in range(10): float(1)/2 > > This seems to be caused by the _record_exception() function in the > coerc

[sage-devel] Re: notebook jumping when @interacts are updated

2008-10-24 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: > Jason Grout wrote: >> From playing with putting alerts into the javascript code, the jump >> seems to occur exactly when the innerHTML is replaced in set_output_text >> javascript function, in the following lines: >> >> >> if (new_interact_output.indexOf('__SAGE_IN

[sage-devel] Re: notebook jumping when @interacts are updated

2008-10-24 Thread Jason Grout
Jason Grout wrote: > From playing with putting alerts into the javascript code, the jump > seems to occur exactly when the innerHTML is replaced in set_output_text > javascript function, in the following lines: > > > if (new_interact_output.indexOf('__SAGE_INTERACT_RESTART__') != >

[sage-devel] Re: notebook jumping when @interacts are updated

2008-10-24 Thread Jason Grout
Harald Schilly wrote: > On Oct 23, 3:14 am, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I notice that lots of times, when changing the value of a control in an >> interact and the interact updates, the notebook automatically scrolls up >> so that the interact is only partially shown. ... > > Hi, I

[sage-devel] Re: Using Pynac variables in plot has problems

2008-10-24 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Thursday 23 October 2008 18:36:33 Jason Grout wrote: > Burcin Erocal wrote: > > Yes, this would be helpful. I keep a todo list on a sticky note on my > > desktop. Here is my list (more or less in order of priority): > > > > * evaluation > > * support for _fast_eval > > * hash is random > > * py

[sage-devel] Re: Toy-F5

2008-10-24 Thread Martin Albrecht
Hi everybody, (sorry for my late replies the university where the conference is at which I'm attending blocks e-mail) F4 does not require homogenization and only (IIRC) suggests to use the normal selection strategy. Matrix-F5 (as described in literature) is quite different from F4 because it