Re: [sage-devel] Re: Have you considered having a Sage Journal?

2020-05-25 Thread Ursula Whitcher
It might also be worth looking at the Journal of Software in Algebra and Geometry: https://msp.org/jsag/about/journal/about.html Their current focus is Macaulay2, but as I recall, some of the editors have previously expressed interest in including Sage-based articles as well. UAW On 5/2

Re: [sage-devel] Making the transition from user to developer

2018-07-11 Thread Ursula Whitcher
oject is nearly always finding something unclear in the Developers' Guide and fixing it. Does "a basic programming background" include some knowledge of Python? If not, picking up a little bit of Python is a good place to start. --Ursula Whitcher. -- You received this message bec

Re: [sage-devel] Sage developer co-authors article on women's representation in subfields

2018-05-26 Thread Ursula Whitcher
m active in the SageMath open-source community. When I'm not doing math, I enjoy rock climbing, knitting, writing poetry, and using my academic library card for unmathematical purposes. Right now I'm reading up on the Aztecs, Merovingian archaeology, and irregular tactics in modern

Re: [sage-devel] Sage developer co-authors article on women's representation in subfields

2018-05-25 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 5/25/2018 11:02 AM, kcrisman wrote: Unfortunately a paywall, but very interesting data and analysis relevant to mathematical software communities too - plus, Sage developer and co-author Ursula Whitcher of Math Reviews gives a shout-out to SageMath in the author bio :) https

Re: [sage-devel] Non-negative integer vectors

2017-09-29 Thread Ursula Whitcher
Here's a ticket: https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/23939 Should be a nice beginner task, if anyone's looking for one! --Ursula. -- 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, sen

Re: [sage-devel] Non-negative integer vectors

2017-09-28 Thread Ursula Whitcher
integer > > vectors with sum exactly n: > > > > > http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/combinat/sage/combinat/integer_vector.html > > > > > Would it be useful to expand that class to list vectors with sum at most > n? > > If so, what should

[sage-devel] bug report: error when computing cardinality of point sets

2017-01-13 Thread Ursula Whitcher
Asking Sage to compute the cardinality of point sets of projective varieties over finite fields produces an infinite recursion error. This is weird, since the count_points() function works just fine (albeit slowly) in this situation. Here's an example. Entering: F = FiniteField(37) P3. = Pro

[sage-devel] broken FAQ link in Sage documentation

2016-09-21 Thread Ursula Whitcher
The FAQ entry at http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/faq/faq-contribute.html#can-i-contribute-to-sage-using-sagemathcloud has a link to https://github.com/sagemath/cloud/wiki/FAQ This forwards to https://github.com/sagemathinc/smc/wiki/FAQ which lands at "General and Miscellaneous Questions". I

[sage-devel] notices article

2016-08-29 Thread Ursula Whitcher
Jeroen, William, and I have an article about SageMath in the September edition of the Notices of the AMS, which is appearing in mailboxes now: http://www.ams.org/publications/journals/notices/201608/rnoti-p928.pdf --Ursula. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[sage-devel] citing Sage: the SageMath version

2016-03-31 Thread Ursula Whitcher
I noticed that the Wiki entry on citing Sage https://wiki.sagemath.org/Publications_using_SAGE does not reflect the rebranding of Sage as SageMath. How should the citation change? --Ursula. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To u

[sage-devel] invisible contour lines in contour plots

2015-12-08 Thread Ursula Whitcher
In Sage's contour plots, the default colors shade from black to white. This applies to both the shades used to fill and the actual color of the contour lines. If you turn off the fill color, the highest contour will be white-on-white, and thus invisible. Here's an example (notice the label f

[sage-devel] checkpointing enumeration of points on hypersurfaces in toric varieties

2015-05-28 Thread Ursula Whitcher
While discussing Ticket 16953, which improves functionality for enumerating points in toric varieties over finite fields, I said: "The actual functionality works fine, albeit slowly. I would find it helpful if there were a way to save partial progress when computing a point set: I'm interested

[sage-devel] documentation bug: git-trac instructions don't mention git commit

2015-05-25 Thread Ursula Whitcher
I found a documentation "bug": literally following the instructions for ticket creation and updates at http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/developer/git_trac.html results in the publication of empty tickets, because there's no mention of *committing* changes. This is now ticket 18504: http://trac

[sage-devel] Should the Sage FAQ link to the SageMathCloud FAQ?

2015-05-24 Thread Ursula Whitcher
The Sage FAQ at: http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/faq/index.html does not mention the SageMathCloud FAQ at: https://github.com/sagemath/cloud/wiki/FAQ . Should we add a question to the Sage FAQ along the lines of "How can I find more information about the SageMathCloud (TM)?" that sends readers

[sage-devel] Re: VOTE: code of conduct - ends Monday at midnight, PST.

2014-11-24 Thread Ursula Whitcher
[x ] Yes -- adopt the code of conduct stated below (*) UAW -- 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 thi

[sage-devel] Re: Code of Conduct

2014-11-16 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On Friday, November 14, 2014 6:05:02 AM UTC-6, mmarco wrote: > > > So, about the code of conduct, it sounds like a nice set of guidelines. > But, do we really need it? I mean, has it been some hard conflict that i > have not been aware of? I know that we have some trolling and flaming going > o

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-13 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 11/13/2014 3:05 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: On 2014-11-12 21:33, Ursula Whitcher wrote: On 11/11/2014 4:46 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: * The sentence "A recent tweak of another part of Sage’s matrix code had changed the definition of “small n” to n <= 63." is wrong: what had c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-12 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Ursula Whitcher wrote: On 11/5/2014 8:24 AM, William Stein wrote: * By "we write up" above, I mean you write up something very, very rough, post it here, and get feedback. Done! http://people.uwec.edu/whitchua/notes/sagebugprocess.pdf Articl

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-12 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 11/11/2014 4:46 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: * The sentence "A recent tweak of another part of Sage’s matrix code had changed the definition of “small n” to n <= 63." is wrong: what had changed is the bound on p to compute the determinant over GF(p) using LinBox (for larger p, we compute determi

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-12 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 11/11/2014 3:41 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote: If I am honest, I am not that convinced it is a good follow up comment, OK, I won't put your name on it ;) but ignoring that, if this was to be the basis of an article, I can think of some improvements. Thanks for the c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-10 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 11/5/2014 8:24 AM, William Stein wrote: * By "we write up" above, I mean you write up something very, very rough, post it here, and get feedback. Done! http://people.uwec.edu/whitchua/notes/sagebugprocess.pdf I stuck with Ticket 14032 as my example; I think the tradeoff of interesting al

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-05 Thread Ursula Whitcher
At some point, William wrote: I wrote that det code in Sage (though in Sage-6.4 it'll likely be replaced by a call to FLINT...). It computes det(A) in a very interesting way, which is asymptotically massively faster than Mathematica. To compute det(A), choose a random vector v and solve Ax = v u

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-05 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 11/4/2014 6:04 AM, Volker Braun wrote: Agree. A reasonable article should [...] b) talk about bug tracking and prioritization, stopgaps How DOES bug prioritization work in Sage? You can pick blocker/critical/major/minor/trivial when you're creating a ticket. Does someone double-check t

Re: [sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-05 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 11/3/2014 4:05 PM, William Stein wrote: I'm sure the AMS would be very interesting in publishing more pieces that involve computational mathematics/software, and likely only don't because they don't have quality submissions enough to choose from. I published one there several years ago about

[sage-devel] Re: The Misfortunes of a Trio of Mathematicians Using Computer Algebra Systems

2014-11-03 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On Friday, October 24, 2014 7:55:39 PM UTC-5, jason wrote: > > > > P.S. It would be interesting to see if Sage can do the calculation they > identified as buggy in mathematica. That would make for a cool > follow-up editorial. > So is somebody actively working on a followup editorial/ letter

Re: [sage-devel] Lattice, RealLattice, ComplexLattice, VectorSpaceLattice: a bikeshed question

2014-04-03 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On Thursday, April 3, 2014 9:28:41 AM UTC-5, John Cremona wrote: > > > Or one could give the Gram matrix G (A^t * A (in the real case), which > is real and positive definite. You definitely need to be able to > define a lattice just by its Gram matrix; theoretically one can go > from such a

Re: orthogonal sums of root lattices was Re: [sage-devel] Lattices?

2014-04-03 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 4/3/2014 4:45 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: Hi Ursula, just to mention: there isn't much framework in that ticket, it merely creates an IntegerLattice class and adds a few useful methods. In particular, at the moment lattices over QQ (or RR) are not implemented, but I guess this could be added

Re: [sage-devel] Re: problems installing TOPCOM for triangulations?

2013-07-03 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 7/2/2013 1:51 PM, Volker Braun wrote: I agree that this is a usability wart... though really I think the whole idea of installing further components while Sage is running is a bad design choice. For example, if you end up modifying shared libraries that are currently mmaped then bad things wil

Re: [sage-devel] Re: problems installing TOPCOM for triangulations?

2013-07-02 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 7/1/2013 8:42 PM, Volker Braun wrote: You need to restart the notebook since the test output is cached... Yes, that seems to have solved the problem. You might want to add a note to this effect in the documentation for Triangulations of a point configuration. --Ursula. -- You received

Re: [sage-devel] Re: problems installing TOPCOM for triangulations?

2013-07-01 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 7/1/2013 8:26 PM, Volker Braun wrote: The interface checks whether the utility program "points2placingtriang" from TOPCOM is available, and didn't find it in your install. Do you have Sage's current spkg of TOPCOM installed or some other version? I ran install_package('TOPCOM') from the no

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R build error in 5.10 was Re: ATLAS build error on CentOS

2013-06-06 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 6/5/2013 10:13 PM, leif wrote: Ursula, can you confirm that `LIBRARY_PATH` is set in your shell? E.g., what does the following give? $ ./sage --sh -c 'echo $LIBRARY_PATH' /home/whitchua/sage-5.10.rc0/local/lib --Ursula. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: [sage-devel] Re: R build error in 5.10 was Re: ATLAS build error on CentOS

2013-06-06 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 6/5/2013 8:50 PM, leif wrote: This appears to be an upstream bug; despite that we configure with '--with-readline="$SAGE_LOCAL"', the corresponding '-L...' is missing in the linker command such that your system's libreadline gets picked up. You can try: $ env LDFLAGS="-L/home/whitchua/sage-

Re: [sage-devel] Re: ATLAS build error on CentOS

2013-06-05 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 6/5/2013 6:01 PM, leif wrote: Ursula Whitcher wrote: I followed William's instructions precisely just after he posted them (which means no attempts at optimization), and the build is still in progress, six hours later. I'm not sure what you mean by "no attempts to optim

Re: [sage-devel] Re: ATLAS build error on CentOS

2013-06-05 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 6/5/2013 5:11 PM, Volker Braun wrote: On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 8:42:03 PM UTC+1, Snark wrote: > takes about 25 minutes, because SAGE_ATLAS_LIB is set in the global > environment by default. Well, not everyone has a big & recent server. My laptop builds Sage in 25 minutes...

Re: [sage-devel] ATLAS build error on CentOS

2013-06-05 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 6/5/2013 11:16 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: https://www.dropbox.com/s/brnvxh48mu36g05/atlas-3.8.4.p1.log The log file seems to be truncated, the last part is missing. I re-downloaded it. Try again? The file is longer than before, but still truncated :-( Can you tell me what the end of

Re: [sage-devel] Re: ATLAS build error on CentOS

2013-06-05 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 6/5/2013 11:06 AM, Volker Braun wrote: Can you try the new ATLAS (for example in sage-5.10.rc0) Sorry, I don't know how I would do that. Can you expand a little? UAW -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: [sage-devel] ATLAS build error on CentOS

2013-06-05 Thread Ursula Whitcher
On 6/5/2013 11:01 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: On 06/05/2013 05:57 PM, Ursula wrote: https://www.dropbox.com/s/brnvxh48mu36g05/atlas-3.8.4.p1.log The log file seems to be truncated, the last part is missing. I re-downloaded it. Try again? UAW -- You received this message because you are sub