Re: [Numpy-discussion] anyone to look at #1402?

2010-02-26 Thread David Warde-Farley
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:56:34PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote: So there's this patch I submitted: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1402 Obviously not that high a priority in the grand scheme of things (it adds a function to compute the log-determinant directly), but I don't want to

Re: [Numpy-discussion] anyone to look at #1402?

2010-02-26 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 03:52:10AM -0500, David Warde-Farley wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:56:34PM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote: So there's this patch I submitted: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1402 Obviously not that high a priority in the grand scheme of things (it adds a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] anyone to look at #1402?

2010-02-26 Thread David Cournapeau
David Warde-Farley wrote: My first instinct would be to look for logdet, but I would also not expect such a function to return the log determinant *and* the sign of the determinant. What about having logadet for the (common) case where log |A| only is needed, and having the more complex

Re: [Numpy-discussion] anyone to look at #1402?

2010-02-26 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 07:23:54PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: David Warde-Farley wrote: My first instinct would be to look for logdet, but I would also not expect such a function to return the log determinant *and* the sign of the determinant. What about having logadet for the

Re: [Numpy-discussion] anyone to look at #1402?

2010-02-26 Thread David Warde-Farley
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:26:28AM +0100, Gael Varoquaux wrote: I was more thinking of a 'return_sign=False' keyword argument. My thoughts exactly. David ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org

Re: [Numpy-discussion] anyone to look at #1402?

2010-02-26 Thread David Cournapeau
Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 07:23:54PM +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: David Warde-Farley wrote: My first instinct would be to look for logdet, but I would also not expect such a function to return the log determinant *and* the sign of the determinant. What about having

[Numpy-discussion] anyone to look at #1402?

2010-02-25 Thread Nathaniel Smith
So there's this patch I submitted: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1402 Obviously not that high a priority in the grand scheme of things (it adds a function to compute the log-determinant directly), but I don't want to release a version of scikits.sparse with this functionality while the