Yes, it would. I just don’t know who’s going to do that. But I badly want someone to.
— John On Jan 22, 2014, at 3:33 AM, Hans W Borchers <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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 Holy mentioned, the combination of the unpublished finite diference methods 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 >> >
