Re: [sage-devel] Build did not work 4.3.5 Ubuntu 9.10 (atlas-3.8.3.p12)

2010-04-14 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Bruce Cohen wrote: I have a new machine with Ubuntu 9.10 (32 bit). My first build of Sage (4.3.5) did not work. Here is a 100 line (maybe too many lines, maybe too little) of install.log. Thanks for your help. -Bruce How loaded is your machine? make[3]: ***

[sage-devel] Build did not work 4.3.5 Ubuntu 9.10 (atlas-3.8.3.p12)

2010-04-14 Thread Bruce Cohen
I have a new machine with Ubuntu 9.10 (32 bit). My first build of Sage (4.3.5) did not work. Here is a 100 line (maybe too many lines, maybe too little) of install.log. Thanks for your help. -Bruce euler:~/src/sage-4.3.5> tail -100 install.log make[7]: Entering directory `/home/bic/src/sage-

[sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:10 PM, David Joyner wrote: > The createspace server has accepted everything and I received the > proof in the mail a few hours ago. I didn't like a few things, so will > try to tweek the latex source a bit (the bibliography is on p101 > instead of p97, and there was an ov

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Tutorial at Amazon.com

2010-04-14 Thread David Joyner
The createspace server has accepted everything and I received the proof in the mail a few hours ago. I didn't like a few things, so will try to tweek the latex source a bit (the bibliography is on p101 instead of p97, and there was an overfull box on p17 ...) to fix some minor problems. Hopefully t

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Problem with Maxima interface?

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Drake
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 at 05:18PM -0700, Nathan Dunfield wrote: > > Here is a more concise, but essentially equivalent, code snippet which > > exhibits the problem.   Just attach and run "prob()"  Again, it takes > > 10-12 minutes to crash on my MacPro3,1 with 2 Quad-Core Xeon > > Processors @ 2.8 Ghz

[sage-devel] Re: Problem with Maxima interface?

2010-04-14 Thread Nathan Dunfield
> Here is a more concise, but essentially equivalent, code snippet which > exhibits the problem.   Just attach and run "prob()"  Again, it takes > 10-12 minutes to crash on my MacPro3,1 with 2 Quad-Core Xeon > Processors @ 2.8 Ghz, running 10.5.8, with Sage 4.3.2 self-compiled > with i686-apple-dar

[sage-devel] Re: Problem with Maxima interface?

2010-04-14 Thread Nathan Dunfield
Here is a more concise, but essentially equivalent, code snippet which exhibits the problem. Just attach and run "prob()" Again, it takes 10-12 minutes to crash on my MacPro3,1 with 2 Quad-Core Xeon Processors @ 2.8 Ghz, running 10.5.8, with Sage 4.3.2 self-compiled with i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4

Re: [sage-devel] Re: code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread Tim Daly
Speaking of that, why not institute a "program committee" where people volunteer to do reviews before your Sage days? I do a lot of program committee work, which is painful but is a professional "giving back to the community" task. It is always done against a deadline which is a great motivation.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Happy Ada Lovelace Day

2010-04-14 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi John, On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:26 AM, John Cremona wrote: > Thanks for adding my student Charlie. Is there a link to this from > www.sagenb.org? I have added a link to that list. You can find the link at http://www.sagemath.org/links.html -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this g

[sage-devel] Re: Problem with Maxima interface?

2010-04-14 Thread Nathan Dunfield
On Apr 14, 2:57 pm, William Stein wrote: > You should post exact code so that we can replicate your problem. I've boiled down the problem into the example below. Just attach and then run "prob()". One thing to note is that's just doing the exact same thing again and again, but eventually it up

[sage-devel] Re: code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread Jason Grout
On 04/14/2010 03:04 PM, William Stein wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, John Cremona wrote: I have been strongly encouraging new students starting out with Sage to make small (initially) patches on their very own ticket, so that they can feel good when these get reviewed positively and

Re: [sage-devel] Re: code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, John Cremona wrote: > I have been strongly encouraging new students starting out with Sage > to make small (initially) patches  on their very own ticket, so that > they can feel good when these get reviewed positively and then merged. >  But those same people migh

Re: [sage-devel] Problem with Maxima interface?

2010-04-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Nathan Dunfield wrote: > I'm having the following problem with basic symbolics in Sage 4.3.2. > I create some variables with "var", combine them into rational > functions, then take their numerator and denominator and coerce them > into a PolynomialRing.   This wo

Re: [sage-devel] Re: code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread John Cremona
I have been strongly encouraging new students starting out with Sage to make small (initially) patches on their very own ticket, so that they can feel good when these get reviewed positively and then merged. But those same people might take quite a while longer before they feel confident about re

Re: [sage-devel] Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Happy Ada Lovelace Day

2010-04-14 Thread John Cremona
Thanks for adding my student Charlie. Is there a link to this from www.sagenb.org? John On 14 April 2010 01:15, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Alex Ghitza wrote: > > > >> Two more contributors: > > Thank you for this, Alex. The list has been updated with yo

[sage-devel] Problem with Maxima interface?

2010-04-14 Thread Nathan Dunfield
I'm having the following problem with basic symbolics in Sage 4.3.2. I create some variables with "var", combine them into rational functions, then take their numerator and denominator and coerce them into a PolynomialRing. This works fine most of the time, but very occasionally (every few 1

[sage-devel] Re: code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread kcrisman
> > I think something as simple as sorting the "tickets needing review" by > > author karma would be useful without being overly complicated or formal. The > > Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking of.   If somebody referees a > lot of patches, then they automatically get singled out as "somebod

Re: [sage-devel] Re: code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Robert Miller wrote: That could backfire - people may decide to review tickets they might not otherwise feel confident about reviewing. If I don't feel like reviewing a ticket with high "karma" but I do care about one with low karma, then I would review zero tic

Re: [sage-devel] Re: code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: > >> On Apr 14, 6:23 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" >> wrote: >>> >>> That could backfire - people may decide to review tickets they might not >>> otherwise feel confident about reviewing. > > T

Re: [sage-devel] Re: code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: On Apr 14, 6:23 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: That could backfire - people may decide to review tickets they might not otherwise feel confident about reviewing. That's a good point. Fortunately, all the people I've met in the Sage commu

Re: [sage-devel] Re: code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread Robert Miller
>> That could backfire - people may decide to review tickets they might not >> otherwise feel confident about reviewing. If I don't feel like reviewing a ticket with high "karma" but I do care about one with low karma, then I would review zero tickets instead of one, and be irritated that I could

[sage-devel] Re: code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Apr 14, 6:23 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > That could backfire - people may decide to review tickets they might not > otherwise feel confident about reviewing. You are right, that could be a problem and it's also a "closed game". If there are no new tickets with unreviewed code, a new develo

Re: [sage-devel] code review tools

2010-04-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: I've also been thinking of instituting a "karma system", where you get Karma for doing reviews. Moreover, people who submit a lot of code for inclusion and don't do reviews... will have the lowest priority for getting their code reviewed. -- William That could backfire

[sage-devel] Re: Inserting Images into Notebook - upload dialog

2010-04-14 Thread ancienthart
Thanks guys. I eventually did the following combination of my first attempt and your suggestions. Upload the image file as people suggested using the data menu. And then I inserted the image in a text entry box, using the "Insert/ edit image" button, and using just the file name for the URL. The