[sage-devel] Re: Attn: Confidential

2012-04-22 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
+1! sorry for the spam... Den lørdag den 14. april 2012 09.30.49 UTC+2 skrev Harald Schilly: > > > > On Friday, April 13, 2012 8:56:18 PM UTC+2, Volker Braun wrote: >> >> On a related note: Enable 2-factor authentication for your Google >> account. I've recently switched it on and it works fine.

[sage-devel] Re: Add matplotlib as dependency of cvxopt (#12742) needs review

2012-03-28 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
matplotlib is only used for some of the examples with CVXOPT; there is no reason to introduce such a dependency. If it's a matter of automated tests, then it would be much better to comment out the plotting in the few examples. Den tirsdag den 27. marts 2012 09.03.49 UTC+2 skrev Jeroen Demeye

[sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-19 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
It's a good point that for most work you don't type in matrices by hand. What is more useful is probably various ways of inspecting matrices easily (print submatrices, plot the sparsity pattern, evaluate expressions involving the matrix, etc.) On 20 Aug., 00:21, Simon King wrote: > On 19 Aug., 2

[sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-19 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
Personally I don't mind that the syntax is different. I was about to give some examples of indexing and slicing of Numpy arrays, which I remembered to be odd for matrices, but then I realized that the indexing/slicing works exactly like I expect it to, e.g., >>> A[:, i] picks out the i'th column

[sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-17 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
I develop optimization software professionally, and I use both Matlab and Python extensively. I only use Matlab for prototyping numerical algorithms and inspecting and manipulation matrices. I tend to stick with Matlab/Octave because constructing/inspecting matrices is so simple and the linear alg

[sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
Another possibility could be to improve numerical computations in SAGE. What makes MATLAB very popular with engineers is not the large amount of toolboxes - it's MATLAB's excellent capabilities for numerical computations. Very often MATLAB users don't have the toolboxes available (which are expensi

[sage-devel] Re: R + GLPK

2010-07-15 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
CVXOPT has no dependencies on Numpy (but can exchange data with Numpy arrays efficiently via a buffer protocol). On Jul 15, 11:04 am, François Bissey wrote: > > On 07/14/10 10:58 PM, Nathan Dunfield wrote: > > >> On a similar note cvxopt can make use of glpk as well. > > > > Yes, it can --- I was

[sage-devel] Re: OT: CPLEX anyone?

2010-01-29 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
If you go to http://mosek.com/index.php?id=99 you can get a free license for academics, but you have to renew it after 30 days. On Jan 29, 11:05 am, Martin Albrecht wrote: > On Thursday 28 January 2010, dahl.joac...@gmail.com wrote: > > > MOSEK provides state-of-the-art commercial

[sage-devel] Re: OT: CPLEX anyone?

2010-01-28 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
MOSEK provides state-of-the-art commercial LP and SOCP solvers as well as MIP solvers. They have a python interface and their academic license is free. Joachim On Jan 28, 7:23 pm, kcrisman wrote: > We also have CPLEX (which is indeed VERY high quality) through our OR > guy's NSF grant.  It woul

[sage-devel] Re: python sage : new cvxopt package planned ?

2010-01-26 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
CVXOPT is developed on Ubuntu, and I've never had to do anything special to build it. If you identified a problem in the build process, please report it on the CVXOPT forum. best regards Joachim On Jan 26, 2:19 pm, Harald Schilly wrote: > Hi, I've just upgraded it a few minutes ago. See my comm

[sage-devel] Re: Sparse numerical matrices

2009-11-28 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
I CVXOPT, the arguments for cvxopt.spmatrix() can also be CVXOPT nx1 dense matrices, i.e., you don't have to create Python lists, although that overhead is probably not too severe. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email

[sage-devel] Re: Sparse numerical matrices

2009-11-27 Thread dahl.joac...@gmail.com
The next version of CVXOPT will include our own library for computations with chordal matrices - including multifrontal Cholesky factorizations. http://abel.ee.ucla.edu/chompack/ We did not develop the library primarily for the Cholesky routines, but they seem to be competitive with CHOLMOD, and