[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

On Dec 9, 7:04 am, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I was just going to say the same thing. planet.sagemath.org is > the way to go. Besides developers blogs, there can also be an official > blog (with several core sage developers having a write access to), > where official thing

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

Hello peoples. I am a newbie statistician using R. and just came across SAGE and your warm community. I also have some knowledge concerning Blogs (mainly WordPress.org blogs) , and could advice you as follows: 1) if you have little time to meddle - start a blog at wordpress.com 2) if you have mor

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

I think perhaps eventually we could move to something like this, but now is not the time. Though I have no way of verifying this, I would hypothesize that many more people come to the site to find out what sage is/what it can do for them than come to see "What's new with SAGE since last ti

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

+1 to the planet.sagemath.org idea, including official blog with release announcements, bug and Sage days info, etc. A semi-official, regular (weekly? authorship could rotate) "tips and tricks" blog could be good too, and another idea would be a regular "How do I ___ in Sage" which could ta

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Parallelism in Sage [and MAGNUS]

I have written a few people (including Gilbert) about the possibility of interfacing with MAGNUS. The problem appears to be that MAGNUS is a gui interface and a command-line back-end, but the gui is not as modular as one would like. I hope I'm wrong and would be very happy to be corrected, but it

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

Hi Robert and everyone. a few small suggestions 1) the main page gives lots of options SAGE has, but no direct links to tutorial material . and when I went to the tutorial page - I couldn't find instructions on how to do what the main page promised me. I am guessing the bounce rate for the main p

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

Hi Tal, I'm in the middle of writing documentation tickets for pre-university students in the Python part of the Google Highly Participation Contest. One ticket will be "Access a Sage Notebook and record a 10-20 minute screencast demonstrating input evaluation, docstring and source lookup, tab-co

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

On Dec 9, 2:23 pm, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tal, > > I'm in the middle of writing documentation tickets for pre-university > students in the Python part of the Google Highly Participation > Contest. One ticket will be "Access a Sage Notebook and record a 10-20 > minute scr

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

It helpful for me if you guys came up with some recommendations for cleanup of the wiki and any wishlists you may have for it. I would incorporate that discussion into the future ticket called "Improve Sage Wiki" for GHOP. Thanks! On Dec 9, 5:53 am, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

Hi Timothy. Thanks for the detailed answer. I couldn't hold myself and opened up a blog named: sagemath.wordpress.com If any one wishes to take upon himself to enter content into it - he can just create a user name at: http://wordpress.com/signup/ And Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the Email you s

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

Thanks Michael. Thanks for the heads up on SAGE+R. Where can I be updated when changes arrive ? Tal. On Dec 9, 3:53 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2:23 pm, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Tal, > > > I'm in the middle of writing documenta

[sage-devel] Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

Hi Bill, I added FLINT-1.01 to Sage-2.9.alpha2. The spkg can be found at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/flint-1.01.spkg While testing on sage.math I got the following: Testing _fmpz_poly_scalar_mul_si()... ok Testing fmpz_poly_scalar_mul_si()... ok Testing _fmpz_poly_scalar_mul_

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

On Dec 9, 4:59 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I added FLINT-1.01 to Sage-2.9.alpha2. The spkg can be found at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/flint-1.01.spkg > > While testing on sage.math I got the following: > > Testing _fmpz_poly_scalar_mu

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

mabshoff wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I added FLINT-1.01 to Sage-2.9.alpha2. The spkg can be found at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/flint-1.01.spkg > On Fedora 7 32 bits: Testing _fmpz_poly_scalar_mul_fmpz()... ok Testing fmpz_poly_scalar_mul_fmpz()... ./spkg-check: line 16: 107

[sage-devel] Re: R Statistics Package into Sage !?

On Dec 9, 2007 9:14 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just tried installing the new package on a PPC apple laptop, and got > the following errors (I think they are the same as you listed before): We have yet another even new package that does install fine on ppc: sage -i r

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

Hi Michael, is that also a 32 bit box? Looks like another bug surfacing. Again it is probably a bug in the test code itself. A divide by zero in some corner case. I'll try to dig it out. Bill. On 9 Dec, 16:08, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de> wrote: > On Dec 9, 4:59 pm, mabshoff <[EMA

[sage-devel] Re: R Statistics Package into Sage !?

Hi, I just tried installing the new package on a PPC apple laptop, and got the following errors (I think they are the same as you listed before): /usr/bin/ld: warning can't open dynamic library: libRblas.dylib referenced from: /Users/mh/sage-2.8.4.1/local/lib/r/lib/libR.dylib (checking for undef

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

I can replicate this bug on a 32 bit box I have access to but not on any 64 bit box. So happy days. I'll try and issue a patch once I figure out the problem. It isn't jumping out at me at present. Bill. On 9 Dec, 17:11, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > is that also a 32 bit

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

I know where the bug is. It is in our integer multiplication code. There's a short piece of code there which is really dodgy and needs rewriting since it has faulted a number of times before. It's been on my todo list for about a week. As soon as I've fixed it I'll issue an update. But it is goin

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

On Dec 9, 6:53 pm, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know where the bug is. It is in our integer multiplication code. > There's a short piece of code there which is really dodgy and needs > rewriting since it has faulted a number of times before. It's been on > my todo list for about a we

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE plaudits and nits

On Dec 9, 2007 10:15 AM, Rich Morin <> wrote: > > You're welcome. Thanks for writing. > > Thanks for the prompt, positive response! > > > > Actually the format below is fine. I just google'd you and you're > > a professional technical editor -- very cool. We could definitely > > use more of th

[sage-devel] Experimental spkg for the Enthought Tools Suite

Hi, The following is working on Fedora 7/8 32 bits: > Dependencies for Sage: > > - http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools Setuptools > ez_install.py > - http://www.wxpython.org wxPython-2.6.x or higher for the UI (Traits, > !PyFace, Envisage). > - http://www.swig.org SWIG v

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

Ok, there seems to be enough interest for this idea. I think the next step will be actually finding out HOW many of us blog, or would be willing to start blogging about SAGE. http://wiki.sagemath.org/planetsage Please go there and put a link to your blog if you have one, or make an entry saying

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

On Dec 9, 2007 10:42 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having downloaded the Sage vmware image and done a > package-install('axiom4sage...') I find that Sage is > not running Axiom but Fricas, which is a fork. That's > fine but I'd appreciate it if you be specific that > you're using Fricas, not A

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

>The main plus of this packaging for sage is that it builds from >source quickly (in a few minutes) using precompiled clisp files. Well, on my 2Ghz machine with 2 Gig of memory running VMWare and using the sage vmware image (but upgrading the VM to have 1G memory) I started the package-install at

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

If I had a blog, and signed up its RSS feed to planetsage, would *all* my posts be visible, or could I filter posts based on a tag? For example, the second post on planet gnome right now is about Dennis Kucinitch... -Bobby On Dec 9, 2007 10:55 AM, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, the

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007/12/9, Bobby Moretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If I had a blog, and signed up its RSS feed to planetsage, would *all* > my posts be visible, or could I filter posts based on a tag? For that, your blog software would have to know how to generate an rss feed for your tag only. For example, if yo

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

Hi bobby, What didier said is right. I know that blogs based on wordpress allow this - I don't have much experience in other platform to tell about them (but my guess is - it will be possible). On Dec 9, 10:18 pm, "didier deshommes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/12/9, Bobby Moretti <[EMA

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

On Dec 9, 2007 1:00 PM, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The main plus of this packaging for sage is that it builds from > >source quickly (in a few minutes) using precompiled clisp files. > > Well, on my 2Ghz machine with 2 Gig of memory running VMWare and > using the sage vmware image (but upg

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

Hi bobby, What didier said is right. I know that blogs based on wordpress allow this - I don't have much experience in other platform to tell about them (but my guess is - it will be possible). On Dec 9, 10:18 pm, "didier deshommes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/12/9, Bobby Moretti <[EMA

[sage-devel] Gnofract 4D

Hi, Inspired by GHOP and a Sage Days 4 talk by Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research, titled "Features I wish SAGE had," I went searching for a cellular and fractal visualization toolkit. Well I found Gnofract 4D which all 166 photos at http://flickr.com/groups/gnofract4d/pool/ were created with. Gnofra

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

On Dec 9, 3:25 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2007 1:00 PM, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >The main plus of this packaging for sage is that it builds from > > >source quickly (in a few minutes) using precompiled clisp files. > > > Well, on my 2Ghz machine with

[sage-devel] latest R spkg

Hi, Josh Kantor and I made a new R spkg here: http://sagemath.org/packages/optional/r-2.6.1.p3.spkg which you can install by doing sage -i r-2.6.1.p3.spkg This should install and work for *everybody*. If anybody tries the above and it doesn't, I definitely want to know about it, sin

[sage-devel] Re: Gnofract 4D

On Dec 9, 2007 3:01 PM, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Inspired by GHOP and a Sage Days 4 talk by Henry Cohn, Microsoft > Research, titled "Features I wish SAGE had," I went searching for a > cellular and fractal visualization toolkit. Well I found Gnofract 4D > which all 1

[sage-devel] resource sharing whiteboard?

Would it be useful to have a "resource sharing whiteboard" that lets folks post computational jobs they want help with and lets others perform parts of those jobs on a voluntary basis? -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdmRich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

[sage-devel] hard-coding symlink mistakes

to work for everybody who downloads a sage binary right now :-(. The package singular-3-0-4-1-20071209.spkg fixes the problem. Just do sage -upgrade to get it, or download it from http://sagemath.org/packages/standard/singular-3-0-4-1-20071209.spkg BZIP2: Some minor path hardcod

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

> Two points: > (1) "All Axiom needs is a mathml enabled browser with the correct fonts." >This is a nontrivial assumption to make. E.g., I have this on none of > my web browsers and mathml doesn't ship with browsers yet. > Mathml ships with Firefox although you have to install some extra fo

[sage-devel] Fwd: SAGE

Thoughts? -- Forwarded message -- From: personal info deleted Date: Dec 9, 2007 4:20 PM Subject: SAGE To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. Stein: I find information on SAGE almost "thrilling," and want to get SAGE introduced here at Walden University. I am sorry that I'll be overseas dur

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

On rare occasions the GAP support list gets an email from someone with a slow internet connection (usually from a 3rd world country) who wants to use GAP. I think everyone would agree that it is important to support mathematicians in poorer countries and someone mails out a CD or DVD. In this case

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

On Dec 9, 2007 5:32 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On rare occasions the GAP support list gets an email from someone with > a slow internet connection (usually from a 3rd world country) who wants > to use GAP. I think everyone would agree that it is important to support > mathematic

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

On Dec 9, 2007 8:37 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2007 5:32 PM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On rare occasions the GAP support list gets an email from someone with > > a slow internet connection (usually from a 3rd world country) who wants > > to use GAP

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE

On Dec 9, 2007 4:20 PM, wrote: > Dr. Stein: > > I find information on SAGE almost "thrilling," and want to get SAGE > introduced here at Walden University. I am sorry that I'll be overseas during > the time of the joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the > Mathematical Associ

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

I have issued a service release, FLINT 1.0.2 to be found at http://www.flintlib.org/ which should fix this issue. It was a divide by zero which occurred in a corner case in the tuning code for the FLINT integer multiplication code. The code which is there now is much neater, much more robust, and

[sage-devel] Re: Re[2]: SAGE

On Dec 9, 2007 6:15 PM > William, a DVD I can use to run SAGE and demonstrate it to > some of the faculty here would be great. Is it permissible to > copy the DVD and give copies to others on the faculty if > they ask--or shall I just tell them where and how to download it? I see. Sage is 100%

[sage-devel] path problems

Michael, I rebuilt all the Sage binaries, and now the hard-coding problem that caused sage: !Singular to not work is fixed (see below). We have to make certain that the new singular spkg is in the next version of sage. -- William -- Forwarded message -- Date: Dec 9, 2007 6:

[sage-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom and Sage

On Dec 9, 2007 6:57 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > root wrote: > >> The main plus of this packaging for sage is that it builds from > >> source quickly (in a few minutes) using precompiled clisp files. > > > > Well, on my 2Ghz machine with 2 Gig of memory running VMWare an

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

>> On rare occasions the GAP support list gets an email from someone with >> a slow internet connection (usually from a 3rd world country) who wants >> to use GAP. I think everyone would agree that it is important to support >> mathematicians in poorer countries and someone mails out a CD or DVD.

[sage-devel] Re: sage spanish translation

On Dec 9, 2007 7:41 PM, Luis Michelena <> wrote: > Hello, I'm an Uruguayan computer science engineer, while looking after > an Spanish translation of sage's documentation I discovered that you > (a plural you, I believe) have used automated means to produce it. We actually haven't used any method

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

>That or maybe he thinks he can run SAGE from the CD, as in a live CD. >(A colleague here thought that...) For that, check out another of my projects, called Doyen . Alfredo Portes is the main person doing the work. He has put together detailed instruction

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

On Dec 9, 2007 8:53 PM, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >That or maybe he thinks he can run SAGE from the CD, as in a live CD. > >(A colleague here thought that...) > > For that, check out another of my projects, called Doyen > . Alfredo Portes > is the

[sage-devel] Re: sage spanish translation

On Dec 9, 2007 7:47 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 9, 2007 7:41 PM, Luis Michelena <> wrote: > > Hello, I'm an Uruguayan computer science engineer, while looking after > > an Spanish translation of sage's documentation I discovered that you > > (a plural you, I believe) have

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

On Dec 9, 2007 10:54 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He actually did make a live cd for sage last year, but it hasn't > been maintained. It's here: > http://modular.math.washington.edu/home/alfredo/ I really apologize for this. It was really time consuming to keep it up

[sage-devel] Re: sage spanish translation

On Dec 9, 2007 11:07 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's weird, but I was just responding to something else on sage-devel, > which is completely unrelated, and I ran across this: > > http://modular.math.washington.edu/home/alfredo/ > > In there, there is some old spanish translat

[sage-devel] Re: sage spanish translation

On Dec 9, 2007 8:22 PM, Alfredo Portes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 9, 2007 11:07 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > It's weird, but I was just responding to something else on sage-devel, > > which is completely unrelated, and I ran across this: > > > > http://mo

[sage-devel] Re: latest R spkg

Fantastic - that worked for me on my ppc apple laptop. I will try it tomorrow on my intel mac, and linux if I have a chance. This has a lot of potential to increase sage's profile in industry as well as academia. I continue to be extremely impressed by the progress sage is making; I think all t

[sage-devel] Re: latest R spkg

On Dec 9, 2007 8:50 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fantastic - that worked for me on my ppc apple laptop. I will try it > tomorrow on my intel mac, and linux if I have a chance. > > This has a lot of potential to increase sage's profile in industry as > well as academia. R will be i

[sage-devel] tgdaily: "It is for this reason I don't really see much validity in Stein's first point."

Hi Sage-devel, The top article at TG Daily (whatever that is) is about Sage: http://www.tgdaily.com/ The link to the article: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35187/113/ -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~-

[sage-devel] Axiom and Sage

Well,per your request, I logged in to the Sage VM and did sage -f fricas-0.3.1 simply hangs. However, sage -f axiom4sage-0.3.1 succeeds and shows a total time of real 18m42 or, if I include network time real 19.6 which is about the wall-clock time. So there appears to be a suggestion tha

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

On Dec 10, 7:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well,per your request, I logged in to the Sage VM and did > sage -f fricas-0.3.1 > simply hangs. However, > sage -f axiom4sage-0.3.1 > succeeds and shows a total time of > real 18m42 > or, if I include network time > real 19.6 > which is abo

[sage-devel] Re: tgdaily: "It is for this reason I don't really see much validity in Stein's first point."

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, William Stein wrote: > The top article at TG Daily (whatever that is) is about Sage: > >http://www.tgdaily.com/ > > The link to the article: > > http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35187/113/ Author's opinion: "First and foremost, they are closed source

[sage-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom and Sage

On 10 Dec 2007 08:25:00 +0100, Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > (2) jsmath looks identical to tex, since it is 100% implementation of the > > tex layout engine. > > I do not think that the latter is true. I should clarify what I meant -