> "(with quality ranging from poor to excellent: wikipedia, PlanetMath > [3], WolframjAlpha [5])." > I get the sense you might be saying that Wikipedia is poor quality and > Wolphram|Alpha is excellent. Certainly not! Corrected.
> * "Interaction with the data then tends to be very limited:" One > thing about OEIS is that a lot of the "interaction" is via people > contributing new information, and a *lot* of that happens with OEIS, > right? This was a big argument for why it should be truly free > (rather than their initial "5% only" rule). Not familiar with this story. As far as I know, if you can't do "custom searches" with OEIS. You have to download the whole thing and program your own for that. For instance, if you know the value of your sequence at primes only, you don't want to fill the sequence with 0s at non-primes and hope superseeker (by email) will identify that submission as A010051*something. If you messed up your submission, wait another hour... > * "At some point, the associated algorithms have been reimplemented in > Mathematica, into the package KnotTheory`" Just curious -- was that > funded, or done by Wolfram, or? I don't know who funded it, but judging from http://katlas.org/wiki/Setup Dror Bar-Natan had significant influence if he didn't do it himself. > * Regarding the human genome being "relatively small", just say how > big it is (in megabytes). I think it's pretty tiny, if I remember > right. And it has a "good" copyright (I think). Just saying it is > possible for one person to "hold it", still allows for the possibility > that it is 20 terabytes (say). I wonder how many terabytes I can > hold... I have some 6TB backup disks for sage.math, and I could hold a > few at once :-) For everyone's information, the FASTA file looks like it is 1.5Gb. It's also as heavy as a bookcase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wellcome_genome_bookcase.png Maybe I can barely hold one copy. > * Top of page 3, describing what you propose to do: this is perhaps > the most important part of the proposal feels a bit unclear and murky > to me, so could be made a bit clearer (maybe structure it into 3 > paragraphs). Also, you might say that this is a plan, but you are > flexible about changing anything if there are sufficiently compelling > arguments for design at the workshop. Also, it would be really good > if you could get feedback on this proposal from Jon Bober and Harald > Schilly, since your proposal could potentially be read as: "we looked > at what they did, and it wasn't very good, so we are going to rewrite > it from scratch using Object Oriented Programming!" (I know I'm > exaggerating here...) Yes, ok. > I really, really hope this gets funded. Thanks > > William > > >> Paul >> > > > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-combinat-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-combinat-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-combinat-devel?hl=en.
