Marcus
Thanks. Pretty interesting. I didn't know anything about SAGE. If you
compare it with Maxima and R, SAGE must be really good.
I like Maxima and R so much. Maxima is an amazing software. I'm still
admired with a software that makes algebra so simple and fast. In Windows
Maxima makes everyt
Owen Densmore wrote:
- It integrates just about every open source math library into a
python. I had no idea just how much of scientific computing had
moved to python. R, for example has rpy. The entire GSL (Gnu
Science Library) has pygsl. Somehow numpy/scipy/matplotlib all got
rationally i
Few things I noticed about Sage:
1) Symbolic math is courtesy of Maxima, a.k.a. Macsyma, the classic math
Lisp program of MIT. [1]
sage: x,y=var('x,y')
sage: solve([y==x^2,y==x/2],x,y)
[[x == 1/2, y == 1/4], [x == 0, y == 0]]
sage:
Exiting SAGE (CPU time 0m1.67s, Wall time 1m20.01s).
Exiting sp
Bingo. Ignorant but paranoid/scared customers boondoggled by slick
sales tactics, I guess.
Its so sad to see bad software like that. I mean, if you're going to
be evil, then go all the way. Jeez.
~~James
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Michael Nygard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Snake oil. You
Alfredo,
Thanks. Wow, Im sorry trying to talk about my work has been a struggle
over language, somehow, but you could hardly ask for a better recommendation
for it than Kauffmans numerous rigorous and compelling reasons why a new
approach fitting his problem statement like mine does is neede
Hey, our friend Mark Newman has an article on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97338308
.. and also a new book on amazon relating to the article:
http://tinyurl.com/6526dr
-- Owen
FRIAM Applied Comple
