Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-31 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Ian Bicking wrote: I'm not sure his summary here is true. You can do efficient operations over sets of data in Python (actually due to some small tweaks to the language requested by NumPy/Numeric users back around the time of Python 2.1). So if you do something like array * 6, it actually

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-30 Thread Ian Bicking
Speaking of the free alternatives (of which I only know a bit -- I don't actually do any of this kind of work), I haven't noticed anyone mention RPy (http://rpy.sourceforge.net/) which provides some integration between R and Python. It would probably be very helpful for porting R to the XO,

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-29 Thread Mel Chua
I happened to mention this email thread to a friend who works at Mathworks on MATLAB and related code. The part of the conversation that contains some notes on MATLAB and the possibility of a port or a release of the earlier version follows. The short version is that port/earlier-version-release

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-28 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Cleve Moler wrote: (I doubt that MATLAB runs in the OLPC, but I'm not sure.) According to the system requirements[0] for MATLAB 7.5, it won't run on the XO laptop due to insufficient RAM (256MB present, 512MB required). In a perfect world, that would mean you'd

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-28 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Jan 28, 2008 5:24 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Cleve Moler wrote: (I doubt that MATLAB runs in the OLPC, but I'm not sure.) There are a number of open-source replacements for MATLAB, including GNU Octave ( http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ ) and

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-28 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Marcus Leech wrote: I was just about to say the same thing. There's also R (The open-source replacement for 'S'). I know someone who would be more than happy to help bring R and OLPC together. /me looks meaningfully at Mr. Michael Tiemann... --g -- Greg DeKoenigsberg

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-28 Thread Marcus Leech
C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 5:24 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Cleve Moler wrote: (I doubt that MATLAB runs in the OLPC, but I'm not sure.) There are a number of open-source replacements for MATLAB, including GNU Octave (

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-28 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
2008/1/28 C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 28, 2008 5:24 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Cleve Moler wrote: (I doubt that MATLAB runs in the OLPC, but I'm not sure.) There are a number of open-source replacements for MATLAB, including GNU

Re: [OLPC library] MATLAB for OLPC?

2008-01-28 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: 2008/1/28 C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 28, 2008 5:24 PM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Cleve Moler wrote: (I doubt that