Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Ralf Stephan
On Monday, February 15, 2016 at 1:11:18 AM UTC+1, William wrote: > > Combinatorics is definitely the strongest part of Sage. Old school combinatorics perhaps. But see http://unsexy-science.blogspot.de/2015/10/survey-sage-and-enumerative.html -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Daniel Krenn
On 2016-02-15 06:25, Jori Mäntysalo wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, William Stein wrote: > Shall we teach Python in the process of teaching Sage? At least, I do in my first year's course. D -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubs

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Daniel Krenn
On 2016-02-15 07:56, Nathann Cohen wrote: > -> We write to the guys who complain about the software and ask > them to give us more concrete examples, so that we learn and fix them. > The first one, the guy who mentions bad doc and useless functions > surely has some stories to tell.. > > If som

[sage-devel] For whoever cares about undergrads (or wants to help William earn more money)

2016-02-14 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello everybody, This is triggered by the thread about 'not-so-nice' comments about Sage. If you want to help william earn more $$ than he has now (by working for free) or if you want to help Sage be more welcoming to novice users (*), a first step would be to help this guy: http://trac.sage

[sage-devel] Re: Regarding Flint in GSOC-2016

2016-02-14 Thread Ralf Stephan
Hello Aaditya, I can offer two ideas here: The Pynac symbolic expression code mostly relies on differentiation to get series expansions for expressions. This is the most general but also the slowest approach. Your project would be to use Flint's polynomial and series expansion functions to provide

Re: [sage-devel] interrupt.pyx on PyPi?

2016-02-14 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2016-02-01 10:40, 'Martin R. Albrecht' via sage-devel wrote: In particular, I am *very* interested in turning Sage’s interrupt handling into something that can be easily installed from PyPI. This is now ready. The upstream package is hosted at https://github.com/sagemath/cysignals and the S

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Nathann Cohen
> There's a big reddit discussion in which a lot of people say > not-so-nice things about Sage: > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/45q7j1/sagemath_open_source_is_now_ready_to_compete_with/ What do you think about doing something smart? -> We write to the guys who complain about t

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Jori Mäntysalo
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, William Stein wrote: There's a big reddit discussion in which a lot of people say not-so-nice things about Sage: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/45q7j1/sagemath_open_source_is_now_ready_to_compete_with/ Shall we teach Python in the process of teaching Sage? It sh

Re: [sage-devel] Ultimatum: sage's trac and wiki

2016-02-14 Thread Thierry
Hi, On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 05:42:55PM -0800, William Stein wrote: > Hi Sage Developers, > > Can somebody *PLEASE* volunteer to move trac.sagemath.org and > wiki.sagemath.org to a VM on GCE and maintain it for a while? I already volonteered for this so i guess it is useless to answer again. Act

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread William Stein
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Travis Scrimshaw wrote: > > > On Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 5:32:34 PM UTC-6, William wrote: >> >> There's a big reddit discussion in which a lot of people say >> not-so-nice things about Sage: >> >> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/45q7j1/sagemath_open

[sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread Travis Scrimshaw
On Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 5:32:34 PM UTC-6, William wrote: > > There's a big reddit discussion in which a lot of people say > not-so-nice things about Sage: > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/45q7j1/sagemath_open_source_is_now_ready_to_compete_with/ > > > If someone doesn't

[sage-devel] Update on memory usage during docbuild

2016-02-14 Thread Travis Scrimshaw
Hey all, Just to note, with 7.1.beta3, I was able to run make doc-clean && make doc using less than 6 GB of memory and 8 threads. So memory usage for docbuilding seems to have decreased significantly since last time I did a full docbuild with this many threads (I think it was in 6.9 betas).

[sage-devel] Re: sage on hacker news right now...

2016-02-14 Thread William Stein
There's a big reddit discussion in which a lot of people say not-so-nice things about Sage: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/45q7j1/sagemath_open_source_is_now_ready_to_compete_with/ "Enjoy", -- William On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:40 PM, William Stein wrote: > https://news.ycombinator

[sage-devel] Regarding Flint in GSOC-2016

2016-02-14 Thread Aaditya Thakkar
Hi, I am Aaditya Thakkar. I am an undergrad student from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India. I have strated contributing to open source and I would like to continue this journy and also I am strongly willing to participate in GSOC thi

[sage-devel] latest OSX 7.1 beta builds available for testing - reverse support request

2016-02-14 Thread Dima Pasechnik
This is a reverse support request :-) As there were many problems with binary builds of OSX 7.0 and early OSX 7.1 betas, the latest (beta3) are now uploaded on Sage mirrors (at least they are on a couple of UK and US mirrors I checked) http://files.sagemath.org/osx/intel/index.html Please test