[sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
On 24 lis, 07:25, Martin Rubey wrote: > "Dr. David Kirkby" writes: > > > I find it hard to believe Sage will not have a negative impact on the > > sales of Mathematica, but I certainly hope Sage does not put Wolfram > > Research out of business. I very much doubt it will either. > > I am with you

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Website Stats Oct 23 - Nov 22 2009

2009-11-24 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Monday 23 November 2009, Harald Schilly wrote: > By City: > 1. London 1,6351.83% <=== > 2. Paris 1,165 1.30% > 3. Madrid 997 1.11% > 4. Seattle 946 1.06% David Kirkby and I surf to sagemath.org a lot it seems :) With so many visits I wonde

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 24, 7:25 am, Martin Rubey wrote: > I am with your hope (how to say this properly?).  At any rate, I think > its realistic though that sage will put > >     maxima, fricas (axiom, open-axiom), reduce, giac, etc. > > eventually "out of business". I see this totally different: Sage or any oth

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi There, On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:41:46PM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: > mark mcclure wrote: > > On Nov 23, 3:30 pm, William Stein wrote: > >> That is true. In fact, I hope in the proposal to not insult or snub > >> non-free commercial software either. > > > > But William, just two days a

[sage-devel] A simple Lagrange multipliers implementation

2009-11-24 Thread cousteau
I was looking for a way to maximize a function subject to constraints but didn't find any, so I wrote it myself (based on an example on http://www.sagenb.org/home/pub/353/): def lagrange_multipliers(f, g, varx): n = len(g) lmb = [var("lambda_%d" % i) for i in range(n)] L =

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread mark mcclure
On Nov 23, 11:01 pm, mhampton wrote: > I thought that Mark McClure's post on another thread raised some > interesting issues, and that it was worth responding to, but it was so > tangential that it deserves a seperate thread: Thank you to Marshall for a thoughtful response. I agree with just abo

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 24, 7:20 am, William Stein wrote: > It's shared between many countries, > including France, Germany, Austria, India, Canada, etc., Since I do statistics, I want to add that since this fall Sage is by far no longer an us-only project. There is more activity from europe than from north ameri

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Website Stats Oct 23 - Nov 22 2009

2009-11-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Martin Albrecht wrote: > On Monday 23 November 2009, Harald Schilly wrote: >> By City: >> 1. London 1,6351.83% <=== >> 2. Paris 1,165 1.30% >> 3. Madrid 997 1.11% >> 4. Seattle 946 1.06% > > David Kirkby and I surf to sagemath.org a lot it see

[sage-devel] Re: A simple Lagrange multipliers implementation

2009-11-24 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 24, 2:30 pm, cousteau wrote: > I was looking for a way to maximize a function subject to constraints > but didn't find any, you can minimize the negative of the objective. http://sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/numerical/optimize.html?highlight=minimize#sage.numerical.optimize.minimize_c

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread kcrisman
> I do not think so. There are really big names (RJF, Robert Dodier and > others) behind Maxima. As I understand from curricula vitae of some > Sage develepers (E. Burcin, O. Certik, W. Stein, M. Hampton, K. D. > Crisman, ..), the typical Sage developer is very young. Sage is > wonderful project,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Florent Hivert wrote: >      Hi There, > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:41:46PM -0600, Jason Grout wrote: >> mark mcclure wrote: >> > On Nov 23, 3:30 pm, William Stein wrote: >> >> That is true.  In fact, I hope in the proposal to not insult or snub >> >> non-free c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Florent Hivert wrote: > I'm not sure anyone in this sharks market will care a cent about putting sage > down... I suspect some of the employees at Mathworks probably welcome Sage, though they would not say so officially. > Now, though I completely agree with sage goal, I don't feel very > comfo

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
William Stein wrote: > It's an honest "attack", and that's exactly what I would expect from > the people working at the Ma's. Perhaps, I'm young and naive, but I > think they are by and large good and honest people. I think this > sort of competition is an overall plus for end users, in the l

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Website Stats Oct 23 - Nov 22 2009

2009-11-24 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 24, 2:56 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > mailing lists... I do not browse the Sage web site that much. I use wget... Then you don't count, even not for the downloads :) It's more interesting to see those numbers relative to each other and to compare them with the past. A user group meeting

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Florent Hivert wrote: > >> I'm not sure anyone in this sharks market will care a cent about putting sage >> down... > > I suspect some of the employees at Mathworks probably welcome Sage, though > they > would not say so officially. > >>

[sage-devel] Editing source python modules

2009-11-24 Thread Gerard Bosch
Hello, I'm new in Sage and I'm working on an implementation for the error-correcting Golay codes (the decoder mainly). The question is that I've got some doubts about how to edit de source code. I have read that I must do a new branch for "my version", edit files there and build with the changes.

[sage-devel] http://sagenb.org

2009-11-24 Thread William Stein
Hi, I've done a rather drastic change to http://sagenb.org, which could reduce in loss of data to users during the last 16 hours. However, right now http://sagenb.org should be faster and more robust than the sorry state it was in before (feedback welcome). Don't worry, the lost data mentioned a

Re: [sage-devel] Complexity, Algorithms and Graphs...

2009-11-24 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 08:59:17PM +0100, Florent hivert wrote: > My (obvious) suggestion is to add at the end of a function doc (close to > reference) a section e.g.: > > ALGORITHM: > > - modified merge sort algorithm. The complexity ``O(n * ln(n))`` is > optimal however it has a ba

Re: [sage-devel] Editing source python modules

2009-11-24 Thread Tim Joseph Dumol
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Gerard Bosch wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new in Sage and I'm working on an implementation for the > error-correcting Golay codes (the decoder mainly). > > The question is that I've got some doubts about how to edit de source > code. I have read that I must do a new br

Re: [sage-devel] Editing source python modules

2009-11-24 Thread Carlo Hamalainen
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Gerard Bosch wrote: > I'd like to know the correct way and the steps to follow in order to > make a code patch then. You will want to use a Mercurial queue. Step by step instructions are here: http://wiki.sagemath.org/MercurialQueues If something isn't clear the

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread rjf
On Nov 24, 6:54 am, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Florent Hivert > > > > > How do you imagine that one of those sharks could "put Sage down"? they don't have to. they just ignore it. > I'm genuinely curious, because I don't see how *they* can.  The > obvious attacks

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread john_perry_usm
On Nov 24, 1:25 am, Martin Rubey wrote: > "Dr. David Kirkby" writes: > > > I find it hard to believe Sage will not have a negative impact on the > > sales of Mathematica, but I certainly hope Sage does not put Wolfram > > Research out of business. I very much doubt it will either. > > I am with y

[sage-devel] Re: http://sagenb.org

2009-11-24 Thread William Stein
Hi, Now that sagenb.org can suddenly handle more of a load, it's interesting to watch the usage. This command gives the number of *active* users (since processes timeout very quickly): os.system('ps -u sagenbws|grep python|wc -l') There are 31 active simultaneous users right now as I write t

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread rjf
On Nov 24, 6:55 am, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: . > > What is so wrong about competition? In the UK, we have a 'competition > commission' > > http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/ Since Sage is given away, Sage makes no money when more people use it. I think the analogy with Boeing and

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread rjf
Oh great, another prime counting function, and you think that WRI will be compelled to respond because Sage has some undergraduate project on the topic. Sure. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubs

[sage-devel] Re: http://sagenb.org

2009-11-24 Thread kcrisman
Just out of curiosity, what was the change - one which will propagate to all servers eventually (if they upgrade), making it even easier to serve courses with them? Just wondering. - kcrisman On Nov 24, 10:51 am, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I've done a rather drastic change tohttp://sagenb.o

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
rjf wrote: > > On Nov 24, 6:54 am, William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Florent Hivert >> >> >> >> >> How do you imagine that one of those sharks could "put Sage down"? > > they don't have to. they just ignore it. That's why searches on 'sage math' in Google bring up sponso

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:49 AM, rjf wrote: [...] Many thanks for your comments.However, I'm concerned that your level of rudeness is not appropriate for this list. -- William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an em

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread Harald Schilly
On Nov 24, 6:05 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" wrote: > That's why searches on 'sage math' in Google bring up sponsored advertisements > paid for by  Wolfram Research. Perhaps I am thick, but that suggests to me > Wolfram Research are not ignoring Sage. I don't know how they have tuned their campaign, bu

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Harald Schilly wrote: > On Nov 24, 6:05 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" > wrote: >> That's why searches on 'sage math' in Google bring up sponsored >> advertisements >> paid for by Wolfram Research. Perhaps I am thick, but that suggests to me >> Wolfram Research are not ignoring Sage. > > I don't know h

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Harald Schilly wrote: >> On Nov 24, 6:05 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" >> wrote: >>> That's why searches on 'sage math' in Google bring up sponsored >>> advertisements >>> paid for by  Wolfram Research. Perhaps I am thick, but that suggests to

[sage-devel] Re: patch in trac # 4644 not in sage-4.2.1 ???

2009-11-24 Thread Mariah
John, Robert, George, Is your version of sage an upgrade from a previous version of sage? Rather than do that, I am building sage from source, specifically the sage-4.2.1.tar source. And sage from source does NOT have the patch. Specifically, sage-sage from source has lines 369-416: if [ $1 =

[sage-devel] http://sagenb.org

2009-11-24 Thread William Stein
Hi, I've made some changes to http://sagenb.org as I mentioned before, and it is indeed for faster. Stress test it! In case you stopped using http://sagenb.org because it seemed to slow, give it a shot. I'm curious what it takes before it slows down substantially. Harald and I are logging numb

Re: [sage-devel] Re: patch in trac # 4644 not in sage-4.2.1 ???

2009-11-24 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Mariah wrote: > John, Robert, George, > > Is your version of sage an upgrade from a previous version > of sage?  Rather than do that, I am building sage from source, > specifically the sage-4.2.1.tar source.  And sage from > source does NOT have the patch.  Specif

[sage-devel] Re: patch in trac # 4644 not in sage-4.2.1 ???

2009-11-24 Thread John H Palmieri
On Nov 24, 11:16 am, Mariah wrote: > John, Robert, George, > > Is your version of sage an upgrade from a previous version > of sage?   No, I looked at the 4.2.1 and 4.3.alpha0 source, in particular the file SAGE_ROOT/spkg/standard/sage_scripts-4.3.alpha0.spkg: apply "tar jxf" to this and look at

[sage-devel] Re: patch in trac # 4644 not in sage-4.2.1 ???

2009-11-24 Thread Mariah
William, > Yes it does.   The patch is here: > >    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/attachment/ticket/4644/trac_4644.p... > > I'm reading it, and it is applied.  Maybe the patch posted to ticket > 4644 is wrong? You are correct, the patch is applied ... but it is not working for me, but workin

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread rjf
David Kirby's comments on competition stuck in my mind as I was doing some errands this morning, and his repeating them suggested to me that maybe I should comment again. For a start, the healthy competition he refers to between Intel and AMD. Perhaps he has not noticed the substantial amount of m

[sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread rjf
I do not have any special knowledge about why sage math leads to a wolfram ad, but perhaps Google has noticed that the pages that are about sage often mention Mathematica. Rather prominently, too. The pages about foo don't mention Mathematica much. Therefore sage math is in closer proximity to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:10 PM, rjf wrote: > While I am not opposed to competition per se, I am quite doubtful of > some of the competition proposed here. > For example, claiming great advantages to rewriting working software > in the language du jour (currently, Python). FUD. Sage does *vastly

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Nov 24, 2009, at 12:10 PM, rjf wrote: > David Kirby's comments on competition stuck in my mind as I was doing > some errands this morning, and his repeating them suggested to me that > maybe I should comment again. > > For a start, the healthy competition he refers to between Intel and > AMD. P

Re: [sage-devel] Re: A Sage NSF proposal to the Computational Mathematics Program

2009-11-24 Thread Florent Hivert
Hi William, > > In the operation, several friend there lost their job (actually this in not > > Mathworks fault and probably the result of Sciface being bought by > > Mathworks is > > that some of them keep their job)... > > > > I'm not sure anyone in this sharks market will care a cent abo

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread rjf
On Nov 24, 12:37 pm, William Stein wrote: > >(RJF) Thus someone doing signal processing calculations will likely choose > > the system with the best signal processing library. > > >(RJF) Is that Sage? > >(WS) Is that Maxima? Unlikely. Matlab has a popular signal processing library. http://ww

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread mhampton
I don't think there is really a question that Matlab is the leader for signal processing. Sage does include some functionality for it through scipy's signal module: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/signal.html which has been all I have needed (but I don't do much signal processing). -M

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread rjf
On Nov 24, 12:37 pm, William Stein wrote: > > (RJF) For example, claiming great advantages to rewriting working software > > in the language du jour (currently, Python). > > FUD. Sage does *vastly* more than "rewrite working software". I did not say that was the only thing that Sage does. And

[sage-devel] Re: Sage and commercial software

2009-11-24 Thread rjf
On Nov 24, 1:07 pm, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Nov 24, 2009, at 12:10 PM, rjf wrote: > > > > No one is claiming that there aren't (gross) inefficiencies in the   > system, but I am one of many who subscribe to the belief that most of   > the time completion provides better results than the lack

[sage-devel] Last call for reviews

2009-11-24 Thread Nathann Cohen
Hello everybody ! I think I wrote the first version of the two tickets #6679 and #6680 something like 6 months ago. The first versions had different trac tickets. Since, they have been updated something like 5 or 6 times, because the MixedLinearIntergerProgram class had to be updated, and these p

[sage-devel] Re: A simple Lagrange multipliers implementation

2009-11-24 Thread cousteau
On 24 nov, 15:16, Harald Schilly wrote: > you can minimize the negative of the objective. The problems with minimize_constrained() are: 1) it finds a numerical result (a real number with limited precision) 2) its constraints are inequalities, like x^2+y^2-3 >= 0 (although an equality can be expre

[sage-devel] images from #7190 not included in Sage 4.3.alpha0

2009-11-24 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi folks, Ticket #7190 (French translation: A Tour of Sage) [1] is merged in Sage 4.3.alpha0. One of its patches, namely trac_7190_add_images.patch, inserts two images into devel/sage-main/doc/fr/a_tour_of_sage. However, the file devel/sage-main/MANIFEST.in has not been changed to take into accoun

[sage-devel] Fwd: Talk on application from number theory

2009-11-24 Thread William Stein
Hi, Here are some slides from a talk Clement Pernet (Sage postdoc last year, Linbox developer) recently gave in France, which mentions Sage in a few places, and exactly linear algebra in many places: http://membres-liglab.imag.fr/pernet/Publications/Dagstuhl09_pernet.pdf -- Forwarded me

Re: [sage-devel] Fwd: Talk on application from number theory

2009-11-24 Thread Minh Nguyen
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:37 PM, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Here are some slides from a talk Clement Pernet I have added Clement's talk to the Sage wiki [1] page that lists talks about Sage. [1] http://wiki.sagemath.org/Talks -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group, send an e