Re: [math] Proposal: move build to m2

2007-04-04 Thread Al Chou
+0 Al - Original Message From: Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta Commons Developers List commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 8:56:06 AM Subject: [math] Proposal: move build to m2 As we ramp up to a 1.2 release, I think its a good idea to move to Maven

[math] Sparse Grid Interpolation Toolbox

2006-02-20 Thread Al Chou
Never having heard of sparse grid interpolation, I found the following interesting. The terms of the license seem to be the same as Apache's, in case we wanted to port this toolbox to Java. Al The Sparse Grid Interpolation Toolbox is a MATLAB toolbox for recovering expensive, possibly

Re: [RE-VOTE] Release Commons Math 1.1

2005-12-12 Thread Al Chou
+0 --- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problems reported with math 1.1 RC4 have been fixed. I would like to call for another release vote, based on the release candidate available here: http://people.apache.org/~psteitz/commons-math/1-1-rc5 Release notes are here:

Re: [VOTE] Release commons math 1.1

2005-12-04 Thread Al Chou
Thanks for carrying the ball on this release, Phil. Here's my +0 (sorry, too swamped with everything else in my life!). Al --- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been no problems reported with math 1.1 RC4, other than some small javadoc fixes, which have been applied to the

Re: [Math] SingularValueDecomposition test case

2005-10-02 Thread Al Chou
Never having used or even learned anything in detail about SVD, my only suggestion is that equations 2.6.1 and 2.6.4 in http://library.lanl.gov/numerical/bookcpdf/c2-6.pdf are, as the text therein says, the only defining requirements for the SVD of any matrix. You could, as the text says, verify

Re: [VOTE] Release Commons Math 1.1

2005-09-01 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --8- [ ] +1 Release Math 1.1 [X] +0 General support but not definitive [ ] -0 Unhappy about the release but not definitive [ ] -1 Do not release Math 1.1 I regret and apologize for not

Re: [math] location for 1.0, 1.1 javadocs

2005-08-30 Thread Al Chou
--- Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil Steitz wrote: I am in process of rolling what I hope will be the final 1.1 RC. We need to settle the issue of where to locate the 1.0 and 1.1 javadocs. If there are no objections, I plan to rename the /api directory that contains the

Re: [math] JDK version

2005-08-13 Thread Al Chou
Right, many production installations are frozen at 1.3 for the foreseeable future, so we have to accommodate that. Al --- Brent Worden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We support 1.3 and higher. Brent Worden - Original Message - From: Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Phil Steitz [EMAIL

Re: [math] SoC Commons-Math Status

2005-08-09 Thread Al Chou
or algorithms from either book. I will post my JUnit tests and code this evening for review. James Al Chou wrote: Yes, good point, Martin. James, please see http://www.mail-archive.com/commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg61147.html for an example of our exercising a decision we made early

Re: [math] SoC Commons-Math Status

2005-08-08 Thread Al Chou
Yes, good point, Martin. James, please see http://www.mail-archive.com/commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg61147.html for an example of our exercising a decision we made early in Commons Math's history regarding code derived from _Numerical Recipes_ (in short, using _NR_ as a source for code

[math] FW: [interest in] SummerOfCode2005 commons-math project

2005-06-10 Thread Al Chou
Rostyslav, I'm sure we'd be happy to have you join the project. I've copied this message to the Jakarta commons-dev mailing list. Al -Original Message- From: Uzhgorod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [math][all] Mentoring for Google's Summer of Code program

2005-06-05 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/3/05, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 22:58 -0700, Al Chou wrote: [deletia] I think the modified scope specified later in this thread is in scope for j-c-m. I agree that the scope of the initial proposal

Re: [math][all] Mentoring for Google's Summer of Code program

2005-06-03 Thread Al Chou
--- robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 22:58 -0700, Al Chou wrote: Questions of scope of Commons-Math aside gasp, what is the scope of the summer project? The scope of Ryan's proposal seems mighty ambitious, even if you remove the parts that aren't

Re: [math][all] Mentoring for Google's Summer of Code program

2005-06-03 Thread Al Chou
Ryan, Your list below seems much more achievable. I suggest cutting it even a bit further, say, dropping Gaussian quadrature as you already hint at (because implementing it would drag in some of the special functions that you note we don't have) and the ODE solver (unless all you mean is a

Re: [math][all] Mentoring for Google's Summer of Code program

2005-06-02 Thread Al Chou
Questions of scope of Commons-Math aside gasp, what is the scope of the summer project? The scope of Ryan's proposal seems mighty ambitious, even if you remove the parts that aren't currently in scope for Commons-Math. If you intend to stay true to Apache's charter, the code will have to be

Re: [math] FFT

2005-05-23 Thread Al Chou
Hi, Bear, Thanks for your contributionary sentiment. Unfortunately, we cannot accept code based on _Numerical Recipes_, given their license. --- Bear Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cleaning out some old files from a grad class. I have one- and two-dimensional FFT code in C, ported to Java.

Re: [math] 1.0 changes to support JDK 1.3

2004-12-05 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just discovered that we have some JDK 1.4 dependencies in the 1.0 release code. I would like to make the following changes to allow compilation on 1.3. Diffs showing the changes are at the bottom of this message: 1) Eliminate the use of JDK 1.4

Re: [vote][math] Release Math 1.0

2004-12-04 Thread Al Chou
I agree, move forward with the release. In case I forgot to vote before, here's my +0 (my company is releasing a major new version this month, and I'm selling a house and buying another, so I have no time!). Great job getting this release out! Al --- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [math][vote] Release 1.0-RC2

2004-11-09 Thread Al Chou
Oh, yeah. g +1 Thanks for all your work, Phil! Al --- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nudge/ -Original Message- From: Phil Steitz Sent: Sun 11/7/2004 6:06 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Cc: Subject: [math][vote] Release

Re: [math] R-based tests

2004-10-25 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used R to compute target values for statistics (and other things) in test cases where certified data tests are not available. To make these tests repeatable, I have been saving scripts that can be executed in R using the source() function. I

Re: [math] Questions regarding probability distributions

2004-10-21 Thread Al Chou
--- F Norin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have any references for the quantum physics cases? I certainly didn't specialize in quantum physics (plasma physics typically uses almost everything _but_ quantum physics), but I did get as far as a EE graduate course in QED and never

Re: [math] Questions regarding probability distributions

2004-10-20 Thread Al Chou
Hi, Frank, --- F Norin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: There are also distributions that are neither discrete, continuous or a mixture of the two. For example, there are numerous distributions based upon the Cantor ternary sets. Practical counter-examples like what you have above are

RE: [math] Questions regarding probability distributions

2004-10-19 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank, After reading carefully again and thinking about some practical examples, I agree that the current framework has a fundamental and unecessary limitation. The point mass at 0, continuous beyond 0 example below does occur in practical

Re: [math] Questions regarding probability distributions

2004-10-12 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the feedback and the contribution! See comments interspersed below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've been looking around for open source mathematical statistics software in Java in the last couple of weeks and have tested the

Re: [math] RC2 Release Plan

2004-10-10 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil Steitz wrote: 4) Add the following new methods to both RealMatrix and BigMatrix interfaces: RealMatrix getSubMatrix (int startRow, int endRow, int startColumn, int endColumn) RealMatrix getSubMatrix (int[] rows, int[] columns) RealMatrix

Re: [math] Matrix subMatrix and mean methods

2004-10-08 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Hoschek wrote: Mark, I am not worried about fracturing. My understanding is that you wouldn't start doing colt releases build by apache, right? You'd rather take some parts or derivatives of the code and add them to commons-math

Re: [math] Matrix subMatrix and mean methods

2004-10-08 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: I agree we should not be releasing Apache versions of the whole Colt library (which technically wouldn't even be possible, as the hep.aida.* packages are LGPL'd, not under the the new CERN license). In any case, the question

Re: [math] Matrix subMatrix and mean methods

2004-10-03 Thread Al Chou
--- Kim van der Linde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil Steitz wrote: I agree here as well. Do you see use cases where you will want to start with a double[][] array, perform matrix operations on it (say some decomposition) and then run stats on the resulting matrix? Will it be too

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Release Math 1.0

2004-09-22 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There were not enough +1 votes to proceed with the release. Bug fixes were also applied during the vote. Therefore, we cannot proceed with the release at this time. Three issues were reported with the release package: 1) Extraneous files (forgot

Re: [math] Maven changes plugin

2004-09-19 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just added a changes.xml file to track changes between releases. Does anyone have a problem with using this? It will (hopefully) make preparing release notes easier. I like it; I'll just have to make sure I remember to update the file when I make

Re: [VOTE] Release Math 1.0

2004-09-19 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RC1 has been out for almost 2 weeks now and there has been just one bug reported, which has been fixed in CVS. I propose, therefore, that we move forward with the official 1.0 release. An updated release candidate is available here:

Re: [Math] Colt

2004-09-10 Thread Al Chou
--- Wolfgang Hoschek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, if some of you Math guys would like to refer to Colt and/or take ideas as you see fit: A lot of licensing issues with COLT have been cleaned up in the latest stable release (1.2.0). In particular, there are no GPL and no commercial

Re: [MATH] Matrix indices

2004-09-02 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brent Worden wrote: Ok, I tally (pre-apologies if I misrepresent anyone): Four votes for 0-based indexing (Andrew, Kim, Mark, and Stephen). Three votes for 1-based indexing (Al, Phil, and myself). Should we go ahead with the 0-based

Re: [Jakarta Commons Wiki] Updated: MathWishList

2004-09-02 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: 2004-09-02T06:34:37 Editor: AlChou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wiki: Jakarta Commons Wiki Page: MathWishList URL: http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/MathWishList no comment Change Log:

Re: [MATH] Matrix indices

2004-08-28 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: My personal preference would originally have been to use 1-based indexing (actually, I really prefer Fortran's ability to let the user define the lower bound index value in each array dimension if they so choose, even though

Re: [math] [vote] Release 1.0-RC1

2004-08-22 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This vote is to approve the public release of commons math 1.0-RC1. This will be a publicly announced RC to enable full feedback for a final release in about two weeks if all is well. The distribution files are here:

Re: [all] Math needs a user a dev email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the type of discussion I'm referring too. Here is a perfect example of why commons components would benefit from separate users lists. Users are not interested in the same discussion issues as developers, the commons users list is ill

Re: [all] Math needs a user email list.

2004-08-14 Thread Al Chou
--- J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Colebourne wrote: For me, [math] goes beyond the role of a simple library of common code. IT would be interesting to hear what you (and others) think about the further evolution of [math]. I also really like to know what current users of

Re: [all] Math needs a user email list.

2004-08-13 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, After some thought, I've come to the conclusion that Commons should setup a separate user lists for the Math group. +1 Al - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [math] Design review pre 1.0

2004-07-25 Thread Al Chou
--- Stephen Colebourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Congratulations on the work put into [math]! Stephen - Original Message - From: Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jakarta Commons Developers List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [math] Design

[math] where to cite references (was RE: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/math/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/univariate/moment Kurtosis.java Skewness.java)

2004-07-05 Thread Al Chou
Citation Numbers in the javadoc and then maintained references to external sources in the Math Site documentation? Al Chou wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: psteitz 2004/07/01 22:29:14 Modified: math/src/java

Re: [math] where to cite references (was RE: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/math/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/univariate/moment Kurtosis.java Skewness.java)

2004-07-05 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All good points below. How about the following strategy: 1) Web site always reflects state of current development (essentially CVS head). We get better at keeping it up to date (I have been lazy about this), trying to update it after every

Re: cvs commit: jakarta-commons/math/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/univariate/moment Kurtosis.java Skewness.java

2004-07-02 Thread Al Chou
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: psteitz 2004/07/01 22:29:14 Modified:math/src/java/org/apache/commons/math/stat/univariate/moment Kurtosis.java Skewness.java Log: Removed link to external definition, as formula has been added to javadoc. Maybe it's my

Re: [math] Getting 1.0 out the door -- tasks remaining

2004-06-07 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.Pietschmann wrote: Phil Steitz wrote: 1) Decide what to do about inverse cumulative probabilities where p = 1 (easy solution is to document and throw) Nearly +1 My own nearly +1 on this just turned to -1. After looking some more

Re: [lang] [math] org.apache.commons.lang.math.Fraction class

2004-06-05 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Stephen Colebourne wrote: This presumes that everyone wants a reduced fraction. I believe that there are use cases for holding an unreduced one. The main one that strikes me is education. The

Re: [math] AbstractDescriptive Statistics

2004-05-28 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious about AbstractDescriptiveStatistics, currently our Type Hierarchy looks like this: Object -- DescriptiveStatistics (implements Statistical Summary) -- AbstractDescriptiveStatistics --

Re: [math] Design review pre 1.0

2004-05-26 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: Before we go too far down this path, it would be very helpful to know just how much performance penalty is incurred by specifying strictfp. That FAQ certainly suggests that the difference is large and undesirable, but like

Re: [math] Design review pre 1.0

2004-05-25 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil Steitz wrote: [Yoav] You probably want strictfp: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=17544. [Phil] I am not sure that we want this, but I am by no means a JVM expert. From what I understand, the decision comes down to strict

Re: [bug report] Commons-Math binomial distribution method returns 1 when it should return 0

2004-05-16 Thread Al Chou
As Brent says in the latest comment on the bug report, the cumulative probability does seem to be behaving as its mathematical definition specifies. Perhaps what is wanted by the reporter is not just the cumulative probability at a point n but rather the difference between the cumulative

Re: [math] Distributions tests

2004-05-08 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To close out BZ #28829, I need to add some degenerate test cases to BinomialDistributionTest. As I started to do this, I realized that adding more test points would be easier and we could eliminate duplication of code across test classes in the

Re: [math] Numerical Python (NumPy)

2004-04-24 Thread Al Chou
of Tcl. Al --- Eric MacAdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: Numerical Python (NumPy) came up the past couple of days on the Object-Oriented Numerics list, and because I know it's been hosted at SourceForge for years, I started wondering whether it could be a source of ideas

[math] Numerical Python (NumPy)

2004-04-22 Thread Al Chou
Numerical Python (NumPy) came up the past couple of days on the Object-Oriented Numerics list, and because I know it's been hosted at SourceForge for years, I started wondering whether it could be a source of ideas or even algorithms for us. The manual

Re: [math] Graph theory

2004-04-19 Thread Al Chou
--- Allen Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always thought something similar to the boost graph library (http://www.boost.org/libs/graph/doc/index.html) would be useful. Now that Java has generics as well it might be an easier first-cut translation... We wouldn't be able to ship a

Re: [math] email addresses in project.xml

2004-04-11 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we can research in Maven and see if these links can be turned off? -1 on email addresses not being obfuscated. Yes, -1 for me, too. I'm fortunate to have been late coming onto spammers' radar screens, but I'd like to limit any further

RE: [Math] - RealMatrix

2004-04-09 Thread Al Chou
--- Inger, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The basic reason i inquired is that by using doubles, you're limiting the precision available when doing certain operations. Take the following matrix: [ 4 6 ] [ 6 14 ] If you try to take the inverse of that matrix, the correct answer is:

Re: [math] ArrayUtils.isAscending, isDescending

2004-04-09 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed the beginning of this thread; my Yahoo mail has been strangely low in activity the past two days. Rather than espouse an opinion on where these methods should go, let me ask why a parallel sort would be so bad. Especially if you

Re: [Math] - RealMatrix

2004-04-09 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: But if we were to have use cases in which exactness was paramount, very high precision (or perhaps using a RationalNumber class) would of course be the right thing to provide. And of course, you can quickly waste 50 digits

RE: [Math] - RealMatrix

2004-04-09 Thread Al Chou
not). -Original Message- From: Al Chou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:23 AM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: RE: [Math] - RealMatrix --- Inger, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The basic reason i inquired is that by using doubles, you're limiting

Re: Bug (and fix) on Commons-Math SplineInterpolator

2004-04-02 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should be fixed now in CVS. In addition to fixing the impl, I made the following changes: SplineInterpolator.interpolate(double[], double[]) now returns a PolynomialSplineInterpolator (new class), which has an array of PolynomialFunctions

Re: [math] Some changes to Polynomial

2004-03-31 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: --- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0. To help debug the SplineInterpolater (PR #28019 et al), I need to expose the coefficients in o.a.c.m.analysis.Polynomial as a read-only property (returning an array copy). Any objections

Re: [math] sparse algebra

2004-03-31 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Auslander wrote: Gents, would it be of any interest to contribute sparse matrices (with iterative decomposition, solvers, etc.) to commons.math? Some time ago I've implemented such a library in C++, using iterative algorithms. It

Re: [math] Some changes to Polynomial

2004-03-31 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: Have we considered a design for the general derivative case (i.e. for UnivariateRealFunction objects)? I was thinking about a Differentiable interface that either extends from URF or is a base interface. It would have a single

Re: [math] Some changes to Polynomial

2004-03-30 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0. To help debug the SplineInterpolater (PR #28019 et al), I need to expose the coefficients in o.a.c.m.analysis.Polynomial as a read-only property (returning an array copy). Any objections to adding this? +1 if you do it by adding a

Re: [math] Some changes to Polynomial

2004-03-30 Thread Al Chou
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:29:42 -0700, Phil Steitz wrote: 0. To help debug the SplineInterpolater (PR #28019 et al), I need to expose the coefficients in o.a.c.m.analysis.Polynomial as a read-only property (returning an array copy). Any objections to adding

Re: [math][proposal] stat package structure

2004-03-22 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 22:40, Al Chou wrote: --- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deletia] 4. Similarly, I would like to create an inference or test subpackage and put TestStatistic there. +1 I wonder if there's a better name than

[math] Re: cvs commit math/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/analysis InterpolatorTest.java

2004-02-16 Thread Al Chou
Phil, I noticed that in testInterpolateLinearDegenerateThreeSegment() you didn't insert a TODO comment when you deleted most of the body of the method (quoted below) Al --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: psteitz 2004/02/15 22:30:21 Modified:

Re: [math] Re: cvs commit math/src/test/org/apache/commons/math/analysis InterpolatorTest.java

2004-02-16 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: Phil, I noticed that in testInterpolateLinearDegenerateThreeSegment() you didn't insert a TODO comment when you deleted most of the body of the method (quoted below) Al Oops! I should have commented that block

[math] J2SE 1.5 static import of methods

2004-02-06 Thread Al Chou
Maybe you all know about this feature of the just-beta Java 1.5, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn on slide 46 of the presentation below http://www.javasig.com/Archive/lectures/JavaSIG-Tiger.pdf that the new static import feature allows you to write things like import static Math; x =

Re: [math] Details on Cutting the release

2004-02-01 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [deletia] *jar release* (jar) Archive: commons-math-0.1-dev.jar [deletia] So the jar has no tests and no experimental code within it. Any Comments? -Mark Sorry to chime in so late, but my preference would be to include the tests no

Re: [math] site updated today

2004-01-29 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I updated the site a few minutes ago. All recent changes are now in javadoc etc. http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/math/ -Mark p.s. With the amount of crap starting to show up in my apache email account, I recommend we drop the

Re: [math] Bug fixes

2004-01-08 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to fix PR #25972 and tidy up a few other things. Any objections to my adding myself to STATUS and committing, or shall I submit patches? Phil I don't understand why the bug report is filed against Math, but I'm fine with you going

Re: [math] Clover Test Coverage

2003-11-22 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: --- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/math/clover/index.html I have to say, I'm very impressed with the clover test coverage tool. This report is very cool and shows us exactly where

Re: [lang] unexpected StringUtils.split behavior (was RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method)

2003-11-21 Thread Al Chou
, String, int ) and my split( String, String, boolean, int ) to implement the change. Thanks, Al --- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: While testing, I discovered that my expectations for the behavior of the split( *, ..., int max ) methods didn't match their actual

[lang] unexpected StringUtils.split behavior (was RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method)

2003-11-19 Thread Al Chou
methods, if need be. Al --- Al Chou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread is a good entree for my question. I was adding a new StringUtils.split method that can split a string using a whole string as the delimiter, rather than the characters within that string. In running my JUnit tests, I

Re: [Math] common-math and bloated 3rd party libraries

2003-11-16 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying organize this thread a little bit more than was accomplished in the discussion. Thanks, Mark. Good job. 1.) Argument exists concerning the dependency requirements of Commons Math. To in fact be modular and easily integrated some

RE: suggestion for new StringUtils.method

2003-11-11 Thread Al Chou
This thread is a good entree for my question. I was adding a new StringUtils.split method that can split a string using a whole string as the delimiter, rather than the characters within that string. In running my JUnit tests, I discovered unexpected behavior in the existing method: String

Re: [math] Proposal for Package restructuring and Class renaming

2003-11-09 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: OK, I see. The one thing I notice is that the names are getting awfully long, especially for the non-default case. I guess that's a price we pay for having descriptive (no play on words intended) names like

Re: [math] Proposal for Package restructuring and Class renaming

2003-11-09 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: Would you move the existing ones into org.apache.commons.math.distributions.statistical or something so that the probability distributions could be organized together under *.probability? Also, I noticed that the current

Re: [math] Proposal for Package restructuring and Class renaming

2003-11-08 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: --- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several modifications I'm planning to make, but in the spirit of consensus I want to propose them and attempt to get some agreement. So math developer opinions on the subject

Re: [math] Proposal for Package restructuring and Class renaming

2003-11-08 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: --- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 2.) Like in my last emails concerning Univariate I would like to, (and have done so in my checkout successfully) Make the following Class changes: interface

Re: [math] BeanUtils, BeanTransformers and BeanListUnivariate

2003-11-07 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to consider that the implementations we have of higher-end Univariates (ListUnivariate/BeanListUnivariate) are a bit premature. In Repast they/we encountered that reflection costs tend to make wanting to work with Collections as the

Re: [math] Proposal for Package restructuring and Class renaming

2003-11-07 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several modifications I'm planning to make, but in the spirit of consensus I want to propose them and attempt to get some agreement. So math developer opinions on the subject would be good. 1.) o.a.c.math.stat.distributions --

Re: Scripting in Java ?

2003-10-24 Thread Al Chou
Danny Angus, I deleted your message accidentally and thus don't have your email address (Jakarta's mail archive completely removes them from the messages rather than simply obscuring them), otherwise I might have asked this question privately. I asked the same question on the BSF list last

Re: [math] Would code for generating IC50 curves fit here?

2003-08-17 Thread Al Chou
--- Eric Pugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am faced with a needing to generate IC50 (also called EC50) curves for a project. A) Does anyone know of any packages that do this? B) If not, would this be something of interest for Math? I don't think we have any curve-fitting code

[math] Re: cvs commit: apply(Functor x) strategy

2003-07-15 Thread Al Chou
StoreUnivariateImpl.java Log: Application of apply(Functor x) strategy (thank you Al Chou) for evaluating UnivariateStatistics against the internal storage collection without exposing the collection or its bounds. Mark, I assume all the existing unit tests passed. I don't think you mentioned

Re: [math] stat package design

2003-07-08 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prior to my changes last night increment was actually calculating the entire statistic. getValue was only returning the value of a precalculated property. The problem is that the cpu cycles need to be spent no matter the approach of full calculation

Re: [math] abstact nonsense was Re: [math][functor] More Design Concerns

2003-07-03 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anton Tagunov wrote: 3) BTW, probably does the future introduction of Generics (Java 1.5) promise any opportunities to work with primitive values and yet have no code duplication (a bit like STL)? I've not spent much time looking at

Re: [math] abstact nonsense was Re: [math][functor] More Design Concerns

2003-07-03 Thread Al Chou
--- Craig R. McClanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding is that this is exactly what you'll get from the auto-unboxing capability. The compiler will be able to see that the right hand side returns a Double, and generate the code to unbox it into a double primitive for you. This

[math] Fwd: Re: Change utility class to singleton with interface?

2003-07-03 Thread Al Chou
The beginnings of a thread in the Refactoring Yahoo list that may be of interest for our current design discussions: Change utility class to singleton with interface? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/refactoring/message/3797 Al = Albert Davidson Chou Get answers to Mac questions at

Re: [math][functor] More Design Concerns

2003-07-01 Thread Al Chou
--- J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would steer away for primative as much as possible. Keep in mind that excessive object creation can and usually is a significant performance drain, both because it is slow in itself despite all kinds of optimization as

Re: [math][functor] More Design Concerns

2003-06-27 Thread Al Chou
--- J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: Does staticness preclude extensibility? ... I clearly have never studied for a Java certification. g Thanks for the clarification, Phil. No difference to C++ or any other language with class methods I ever met. I'm not much

Re: [math][functor] More Design Concerns

2003-06-26 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (2) Considerations a.) Is consistent library design important?Can all these models interace effectively? Are all these different design models required? Is there a single design model that can span the entire library? IMHO, the most important

Re: [math] Recent commits in analysis package

2003-06-26 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect its the same case with Quintic solver as well, If they are just for test examples, I'll move them back there. -Mark Phil Steitz wrote: Mark R. Diggory wrote: Yes, sorry about that, I had missed adding those in the last patch.

[math] Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 21023] - [PATCH] [math] Natural spline interpolation

2003-06-24 Thread Al Chou
--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-06-25 01:16 --- I'll apply this, but its really alot easier to apply cvs generated patches over tarballs or unix diff. I would prefer this format over all others. Not only does cvs diff generate patches directly against the cvs

Re: [math] Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 21023] - [PATCH] [math] Natural spline interpolation

2003-06-24 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Understandable, and thats sensible, as long as I can find a way to apply the patch, I'll accept it. There is a way that the cvs diff strategy would still work, it would have been to create a cvs diff that applied all the changes that the tgz

Re: [math] Tasks remaining for initial release

2003-06-23 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * RealMatrixImpl is missing one method implementation -- getRank(). The most accurate way to implement this would be to add Singular Value Decomposition and use this to compute effective numerical rank. If someone wants to volunteer to do this, we

Re: [math] Tasks remaining for initial release

2003-06-23 Thread Al Chou
--- J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: * Interpolation. Al is working on cubic spline interpolation. Right? Right. Sorry if I preempted your work, but I just posted cubic spline interpolation to bugzilla for general review. There are a few design questions

[math] Does LU decomposition assume matrix is square?

2003-06-21 Thread Al Chou
I finally decided that cubic spline would be my first attempt at implementing interpolation, partly because of the difficulty of finding an alternative reference to NR for the Stoer Bulirsch rational function method, partly because I started to have doubts about the desirability of interpolation

Re: [math] Does LU decomposition assume matrix is square?

2003-06-21 Thread Al Chou
--- Phil Steitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Al Chou wrote: I finally decided that cubic spline would be my first attempt at implementing interpolation, partly because of the difficulty of finding an alternative reference to NR for the Stoer Bulirsch rational function method, partly because

Re: [math] Limits on StatUtil content (was Re: [math] design patterns ...)

2003-06-20 Thread Al Chou
--- Mark R. Diggory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phil Steitz wrote: I keep reminding myself, we are the developers, there is always room for refactoring in the future. If there becomes a clear hindrance with the use of static methods, then we can refactor them into a class that needs to be

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