John, as I understood you are overloaden. And I cannot believe this will change in spring. Wouldn't it be preferable if someone else takes over?
Hans Werner On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 3:58:18 AM UTC+1, John Myles White wrote: > > If you’re willing to wait, I’m happy to return to the Calculus package in > the spring. I’m focusing on DataFrames/DataArrays (and some database stuff > that’s closely related) until then. > > — John > > On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Hans W Borchers > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Thanks for these encouraging words. I have already written an R package > with more than a hundred numerical functions (incl. several numerical > derivatives), and I would be willing to help build up a numerical package > in Julia. But of course, someone from the Julia community will be needed to > take the lead. Please let me know when this 'management position'(?) has > been taken. > > On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 4:44:37 PM UTC+1, John Myles White wrote: >> >> Just to chime in: the biggest problem with the Calculus isn’t the absence >> of usable functionality, it’s that the published interface isn’t a very >> good one and the more reliable interface, including things like >> finite_difference_hessian, isn’t exported. >> >> To fix this, we need someone to come in and do some serious design work, >> where they'll rethink interfaces and remove out-dated functionality. As Tim >> Holy mentioned, the combination of the unpublished finite diference methods >> and automatic differentation methods in DualNumbers should get you very >> far. >> >> — John >> >> >
