Hello, William.

You wrote 4 мая 2010 г., 22:34:58:

> Could you write a little more to sage-devel about why mathematicians
> might care about "support vector machines" -- it's possible that most
> people reading this have never heard of them.

Being  sage-devel  reader  for  a  while I may say that SAGE users are
mostly  interested  in  symbolic algebra, graph theory, other kinds of
"exact algebra" (finite rings, etc.). Interest in numerical processing
is much more lower.

Looks like we (Open Source Community) have:
* R - for statistical processing
* Octave - for numerical processing
* SAGE - for symbolic/"exact" problems

What do you think about such specialization? Is it intentional?

P.S.  I've thought on writing SAGEable Python wrapper for ALGLIB. This
idea  came to me when I worked with automatically generated C# wrapper
for  MPIR.  It started as MPIR-related project, but now I see that the
same technology can be applied to other software projects.

I  know  that  SAGE  already  has  GSL wrapper, but two projects don't
overlap  each other. Some functionality is present only in GSL, some -
only in ALGLIB. But is numerical analysis really needed in the SAGE?

-- 
With best regards,
 Sergey                          mailto:[email protected]

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