[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-04 Thread rjf
On Saturday, March 3, 2012 11:02:39 AM UTC-8, kcrisman wrote: ... > > Has anyone ever done a natural-language frontend attempt to Maxima or > its predecessors? I would be surprised if someone hadn't, to be > honest. > > I am unaware of any natural language front end to Macsyma or Maxima,

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-04 Thread Keshav Kini
Michael Orlitzky writes: > On 03/01/12 23:43, Keshav Kini wrote: >> I don't understand. Why would it be *faster* to do version bumps if >> sage-on-gentoo gets into Gentoo proper? Overlays are always more nimble >> than the Gentoo tree, as far as I can see. > > If we're to distribute sage via sourc

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-03 Thread kcrisman
On Mar 3, 10:08 am, rjf wrote: > I thing this natural language input idea is not particularly > proven here.  Why would it be easier for a user to learn to type > perfectly > formed English (or other natural language) inputs instead of math? Presumably a first step? But you'd have to ask the d

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-03 Thread Jason Grout
On 3/3/12 9:08 AM, rjf wrote: I thing this natural language input idea is not particularly proven here. Why would it be easier for a user to learn to type perfectly formed English (or other natural language) inputs instead of math? I think the point is that prospective users of Sage have alrea

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-03 Thread rjf
I thing this natural language input idea is not particularly proven here. Why would it be easier for a user to learn to type perfectly formed English (or other natural language) inputs instead of math? You should see what is done if the natural language input has unexpected forms in it. But, if

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-03 Thread Paul-Olivier Dehaye
Is anyone from Zurich going? (I am trying to) Paul On Friday, March 2, 2012 8:33:22 PM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote: > > Bringing this back to the actual subject of the thread... > > See > > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12619 > > The developer has the following followup too. > > > >>> Lo

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-02 Thread kcrisman
Bringing this back to the actual subject of the thread... See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12619 The developer has the following followup too. >>> Login into localhost at port 9000 >>> waiting... EmptyBlock 2 >>> finished handshake. Session id is 9b9c68446cc2caf65e14d5078ac9eedd >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/01/12 23:43, Keshav Kini wrote: > > I don't understand. Why would it be *faster* to do version bumps if > sage-on-gentoo gets into Gentoo proper? Overlays are always more nimble > than the Gentoo tree, as far as I can see. If we're to distribute sage via source, we need some way for users t

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread Jason Grout
On 3/2/12 1:40 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote: "python setup.py develop" would be nice, how does it deal with Cython files? In terms of moinmoin, I've wondered why we're shipping the wiki as a standard spkg. Perhaps gnutls and twisted could be placed on the chopping block too in the not-too-distant f

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:37 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Julien Puydt > wrote: >> Le mercredi 29 février, William Stein a écrit: >>> Licenses aren't the issue.  We can't include a Haskell program in Sage >>> without including the Haskell compiler (buildable from

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread Keshav Kini
Michael Orlitzky writes: > The way forward is the sage-on-gentoo/prefix approach: > spkg-install scripts are just a poor excuse for ebuilds already. > > We ship and maintain half of a linux distro, with bugs popping up > around the arbitrary cut-off point (sage doesn't ship dvipng, so it's > perpe

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 03/01/2012 04:00 PM, Julien Puydt wrote: >> >> >> I'm sorry, but I still fail to see how situation : >> >>     sage contains all its deps (even if they're already there) >> >> will be any better for subtle bugs than situation : >> >>    

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread Julien Puydt
Le jeudi 01 mars, Michael Orlitzky a écrit: > On 03/01/2012 04:52 PM, William Stein wrote: > >> > >> I'm sorry, but I still fail to see how situation : > >> > >> sage contains all its deps (even if they're already there) > >> > >> will be any better for subtle bugs than situation : > >> > >>

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/01/2012 04:52 PM, William Stein wrote: I'm sorry, but I still fail to see how situation : sage contains all its deps (even if they're already there) will be any better for subtle bugs than situation : sage has the same deps, but doesn't manage them itself more than by declaring

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/01/2012 04:00 PM, Julien Puydt wrote: I'm sorry, but I still fail to see how situation : sage contains all its deps (even if they're already there) will be any better for subtle bugs than situation : sage has the same deps, but doesn't manage them itself more than by declaring

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Julien Puydt wrote: > Le jeudi 01 mars, Harald Schilly a écrit: >> On Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:01:46 AM UTC+1, Snark wrote: >> > >> > Could you tell me which magical property of sage makes impossible >> > what >> > >> > is possible for other complex systems, and h

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread Julien Puydt
Le jeudi 01 mars, Harald Schilly a écrit: > On Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:01:46 AM UTC+1, Snark wrote: > > > > Could you tell me which magical property of sage makes impossible > > what > > > > is possible for other complex systems, and huge sets of packages? > > > > Put simple: Sage is turing com

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:01:46 AM UTC+1, Snark wrote: > > Could you tell me which magical property of sage makes impossible what > > is possible for other complex systems, and huge sets of packages? > Put simple: Sage is turing complete, a "video editor" (office package [*], or whatever) is

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread kcrisman
On Mar 1, 9:43 am, kcrisman wrote: > On Feb 29, 8:46 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > > > On 2/29/12 5:31 PM, mmarco wrote: > > > > So, returning to the original subject. Would it be ok to have this > > > natural language interface, say, as an optional package? Or as someone > > > suggested, to have it

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-03-01 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 29, 8:46 pm, Jason Grout wrote: > On 2/29/12 5:31 PM, mmarco wrote: > > > So, returning to the original subject. Would it be ok to have this > > natural language interface, say, as an optional package? Or as someone > > suggested, to have it in some experimental server? > > Yes!  And Yes!

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/29/12 5:31 PM, mmarco wrote: So, returning to the original subject. Would it be ok to have this natural language interface, say, as an optional package? Or as someone suggested, to have it in some experimental server? Yes! And Yes! Please, go for it! Jason -- To post to this group, s

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
Em 29 de fevereiro de 2012 19:24, Julien Puydt escreveu: > Le mercredi 29 février, Jan Groenewald a écrit: >> Hi >> >> On 29 February 2012 22:21, Julien Puydt >> wrote: >> >> > If it only built what it *needs to build*, not what it *needs*, then >> > there would be a gain too. Let me stress again

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread mmarco
So, returning to the original subject. Would it be ok to have this natural language interface, say, as an optional package? Or as someone suggested, to have it in some experimental server? -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread John H Palmieri
On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 3:01:46 PM UTC-8, Snark wrote: > > Le mercredi 29 février, William Stein a écrit: > > > > (1) when you want to apply a theorem, do you just check for the > > > hypotheses then go on, or do you re-do the proof down from the > > > axioms? > > > > Neither. This is a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mercredi 29 février, William Stein a écrit: > Even if Sage didn't include Python (say), we would still have to worry > about it as a dependency, and "big" would be replaced by "sage has too > many dependencies". I tought I had insisted enough : the spkg would still be there, ready to be used.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On 29 February 2012 23:35, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > On 29 February 2012 22:21, Julien Puydt > wrote: > >> > >> If it only built what it *needs to build*, not what it *needs*, then > >> there would be a gain too. Let me

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Jan Groenewald wrote: > Hi > > > On 29 February 2012 22:21, Julien Puydt wrote: >> >> If it only built what it *needs to build*, not what it *needs*, then >> there would be a gain too. Let me stress again : I have some of the >> things it needs already, so it coul

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Julien Puydt wrote: > Le mercredi 29 février, William Stein a écrit: >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Julien Puydt >> wrote: >> > Le mercredi 29 février, William Stein a écrit: >> >> Licenses aren't the issue.  We can't include a Haskell program in >> >> Sage

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mercredi 29 février, Jan Groenewald a écrit: > Hi > > On 29 February 2012 22:21, Julien Puydt > wrote: > > > If it only built what it *needs to build*, not what it *needs*, then > > there would be a gain too. Let me stress again : I have some of the > > things it needs already, so it could ju

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi On 29 February 2012 22:21, Julien Puydt wrote: > If it only built what it *needs to build*, not what it *needs*, then > there would be a gain too. Let me stress again : I have some of the > things it needs already, so it could just use it. > > I was under the impression... Building Sage Just

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mercredi 29 février, William Stein a écrit: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Julien Puydt > wrote: > > Le mercredi 29 février, William Stein a écrit: > >> Licenses aren't the issue.  We can't include a Haskell program in > >> Sage without including the Haskell compiler (buildable from > >> s

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Julien Puydt wrote: > Le mercredi 29 février, William Stein a écrit: >> Licenses aren't the issue.  We can't include a Haskell program in Sage >> without including the Haskell compiler (buildable from source) in >> Sage.  And there's no way we're doing that.  We a

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Julien Puydt
Le mercredi 29 février, William Stein a écrit: > Licenses aren't the issue. We can't include a Haskell program in Sage > without including the Haskell compiler (buildable from source) in > Sage. And there's no way we're doing that. We already have to deal > with too many different programming la

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/29/12 12:16 PM, William Stein wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:58 AM, mmarco wrote: What is the issue with haskell? Its license? Licenses aren't the issue. We can't include a Haskell program in Sage without including the Haskell compiler (buildable from source) in Sage. And there's no

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 29, 12:58 pm, mmarco wrote: > What is the issue with haskell? Its license? > Probably just not worth having yet another upstream dependency that doesn't really help Sage in other ways. That doesn't mean this couldn't be related, just that vanilla Sage wouldn't incorporate it - which see

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread William Stein
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:58 AM, mmarco wrote: > What is the issue with haskell? Its license? Licenses aren't the issue. We can't include a Haskell program in Sage without including the Haskell compiler (buildable from source) in Sage. And there's no way we're doing that. We already have to de

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread mmarco
What is the issue with haskell? Its license? On Feb 29, 6:33 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:55 AM, mmarco wrote: > > Take a look at this: > >http://www.molto-project.eu/node/1412 > > > It is a library that can translate natural language sentences to sage > > commands. I hav

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread kcrisman
Dear Prof. Saludes, This email is cc:ed to the official Sage developer list, which we welcome you to join at sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Appended see some of the very positive reaction to your MOLTO project to give Sage natural language interface. I have at least one question, though. Assuming

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 29, 8:38 am, Jason Grout wrote: > On 2/29/12 5:55 AM, mmarco wrote: > > > Has somebody tested it? > > Do you think it would be worth the effort of including this in sage? I > > think that, for example, having an option in the notebook to enter > > commands in natural language would be a k

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Jason Grout
On 2/29/12 5:55 AM, mmarco wrote: Has somebody tested it? Do you think it would be worth the effort of including this in sage? I think that, for example, having an option in the notebook to enter commands in natural language would be a killer feature (assuming it works fine). Never heard of thi

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread kcrisman
On Feb 29, 6:55 am, mmarco wrote: > Take a look at this:http://www.molto-project.eu/node/1412 > > It is a library that can translate natural language sentences to sage > commands. I haven't tested it, but the examples they show sound > impressive: > > sage> compute the product of the octal numbe

[sage-devel] Re: Natural language interface to sage

2012-02-29 Thread Johan Bosman
Does this library also include speech recognition? :) On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:55:47 AM UTC, mmarco wrote: > > Take a look at this: > http://www.molto-project.eu/node/1412 > > It is a library that can translate natural language sentences to sage > commands. I haven't tested it, but th