On May 5, 12:42 am, Sergey Bochkanov <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
You're right. I guess that's the purpose of this thread -- to gauge the interest of the Sage community in routines for using SVMs. Just because the Sage community in general isn't interested in a component, however, doesn't mean that it couldn't be useful to some people. > > 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? I'm sure its intentional. Its good for a project to have both scope and vision. However, there are circumstances in which you may want to expand a project's scope. And SVM-Light doesn't have to be an addition to Sage's core -- it could be an optional SPKG that interested users may install at their leisure. > 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] In my opinion SVM functionality could be a useful addition to Sage. For ML researchers, being able to execute a support vector machine and then graph and manipulate the results all within an interactive environment could be very useful. However, if no one is interested then I won't bother expending the effort! -- Bill -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
