[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 9, 7:04 am, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I was just going to say the same thing. planet.sagemath.org is the way to go. Besides developers blogs, there can also be an official blog (with several core sage developers having a write access to), where official things will

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello peoples. I am a newbie statistician using R. and just came across SAGE and your warm community. I also have some knowledge concerning Blogs (mainly WordPress.org blogs) , and could advice you as follows: 1) if you have little time to meddle - start a blog at wordpress.com 2) if you have

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Bradshaw
I think perhaps eventually we could move to something like this, but now is not the time. Though I have no way of verifying this, I would hypothesize that many more people come to the site to find out what sage is/what it can do for them than come to see What's new with SAGE since last

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Robert Bradshaw
+1 to the planet.sagemath.org idea, including official blog with release announcements, bug and Sage days info, etc. A semi-official, regular (weekly? authorship could rotate) tips and tricks blog could be good too, and another idea would be a regular How do I ___ in Sage which could take

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: Parallelism in Sage [and MAGNUS]

2007-12-09 Thread David Joyner
I have written a few people (including Gilbert) about the possibility of interfacing with MAGNUS. The problem appears to be that MAGNUS is a gui interface and a command-line back-end, but the gui is not as modular as one would like. I hope I'm wrong and would be very happy to be corrected, but it

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Robert and everyone. a few small suggestions 1) the main page gives lots of options SAGE has, but no direct links to tutorial material . and when I went to the tutorial page - I couldn't find instructions on how to do what the main page promised me. I am guessing the bounce rate for the main

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
Hi Tal, I'm in the middle of writing documentation tickets for pre-university students in the Python part of the Google Highly Participation Contest. One ticket will be Access a Sage Notebook and record a 10-20 minute screencast demonstrating input evaluation, docstring and source lookup,

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 9, 2:23 pm, Timothy Clemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tal, I'm in the middle of writing documentation tickets for pre-university students in the Python part of the Google Highly Participation Contest. One ticket will be Access a Sage Notebook and record a 10-20 minute screencast

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
It helpful for me if you guys came up with some recommendations for cleanup of the wiki and any wishlists you may have for it. I would incorporate that discussion into the future ticket called Improve Sage Wiki for GHOP. Thanks! On Dec 9, 5:53 am, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de wrote:

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Timothy. Thanks for the detailed answer. I couldn't hold myself and opened up a blog named: sagemath.wordpress.com If any one wishes to take upon himself to enter content into it - he can just create a user name at: http://wordpress.com/signup/ And Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the Email you

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Michael. Thanks for the heads up on SAGE+R. Where can I be updated when changes arrive ? Tal. On Dec 9, 3:53 pm, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de wrote: On Dec 9, 2:23 pm, Timothy Clemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tal, I'm in the middle of writing documentation tickets

[sage-devel] Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

2007-12-09 Thread mabshoff
Hi Bill, I added FLINT-1.01 to Sage-2.9.alpha2. The spkg can be found at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/flint-1.01.spkg While testing on sage.math I got the following: Testing _fmpz_poly_scalar_mul_si()... ok Testing fmpz_poly_scalar_mul_si()... ok Testing

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

2007-12-09 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 9, 4:59 pm, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de wrote: Hi Bill, I added FLINT-1.01 to Sage-2.9.alpha2. The spkg can be found at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/flint-1.01.spkg While testing on sage.math I got the following: Testing _fmpz_poly_scalar_mul_si()...

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

2007-12-09 Thread Jaap Spies
mabshoff wrote: Hi Bill, I added FLINT-1.01 to Sage-2.9.alpha2. The spkg can be found at http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/mabshoff/flint-1.01.spkg On Fedora 7 32 bits: Testing _fmpz_poly_scalar_mul_fmpz()... ok Testing fmpz_poly_scalar_mul_fmpz()... ./spkg-check: line 16: 10706

[sage-devel] Re: R Statistics Package into Sage !?

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 9:14 AM, mhampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just tried installing the new package on a PPC apple laptop, and got the following errors (I think they are the same as you listed before): We have yet another even new package that does install fine on ppc: sage -i

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

2007-12-09 Thread Bill Hart
Hi Michael, is that also a 32 bit box? Looks like another bug surfacing. Again it is probably a bug in the test code itself. A divide by zero in some corner case. I'll try to dig it out. Bill. On 9 Dec, 16:08, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de wrote: On Dec 9, 4:59 pm, mabshoff [EMAIL

[sage-devel] Re: R Statistics Package into Sage !?

2007-12-09 Thread mhampton
Hi, I just tried installing the new package on a PPC apple laptop, and got the following errors (I think they are the same as you listed before): /usr/bin/ld: warning can't open dynamic library: libRblas.dylib referenced from: /Users/mh/sage-2.8.4.1/local/lib/r/lib/libR.dylib (checking for

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

2007-12-09 Thread Bill Hart
I can replicate this bug on a 32 bit box I have access to but not on any 64 bit box. So happy days. I'll try and issue a patch once I figure out the problem. It isn't jumping out at me at present. Bill. On 9 Dec, 17:11, Bill Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael, is that also a 32 bit

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

2007-12-09 Thread Bill Hart
I know where the bug is. It is in our integer multiplication code. There's a short piece of code there which is really dodgy and needs rewriting since it has faulted a number of times before. It's been on my todo list for about a week. As soon as I've fixed it I'll issue an update. But it is

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

2007-12-09 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 9, 6:53 pm, Bill Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know where the bug is. It is in our integer multiplication code. There's a short piece of code there which is really dodgy and needs rewriting since it has faulted a number of times before. It's been on my todo list for about a week.

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE plaudits and nits

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 10:15 AM, Rich Morin wrote: You're welcome. Thanks for writing. Thanks for the prompt, positive response! Actually the format below is fine. I just google'd you and you're a professional technical editor -- very cool. We could definitely use more of that to improve

[sage-devel] Experimental spkg for the Enthought Tools Suite

2007-12-09 Thread Jaap Spies
Hi, The following is working on Fedora 7/8 32 bits: Dependencies for Sage: - http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools Setuptools ez_install.py - http://www.wxpython.org wxPython-2.6.x or higher for the UI (Traits, !PyFace, Envisage). - http://www.swig.org SWIG version

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Yi Qiang
Ok, there seems to be enough interest for this idea. I think the next step will be actually finding out HOW many of us blog, or would be willing to start blogging about SAGE. http://wiki.sagemath.org/planetsage Please go there and put a link to your blog if you have one, or make an entry saying

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 10:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having downloaded the Sage vmware image and done a package-install('axiom4sage...') I find that Sage is not running Axiom but Fricas, which is a fork. That's fine but I'd appreciate it if you be specific that you're using Fricas, not Axiom.

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

2007-12-09 Thread root
The main plus of this packaging for sage is that it builds from source quickly (in a few minutes) using precompiled clisp files. Well, on my 2Ghz machine with 2 Gig of memory running VMWare and using the sage vmware image (but upgrading the VM to have 1G memory) I started the package-install at

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread Bobby Moretti
If I had a blog, and signed up its RSS feed to planetsage, would *all* my posts be visible, or could I filter posts based on a tag? For example, the second post on planet gnome right now is about Dennis Kucinitch... -Bobby On Dec 9, 2007 10:55 AM, Yi Qiang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, there

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread didier deshommes
2007/12/9, Bobby Moretti [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I had a blog, and signed up its RSS feed to planetsage, would *all* my posts be visible, or could I filter posts based on a tag? For that, your blog software would have to know how to generate an rss feed for your tag only. For example, if you

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi bobby, What didier said is right. I know that blogs based on wordpress allow this - I don't have much experience in other platform to tell about them (but my guess is - it will be possible). On Dec 9, 10:18 pm, didier deshommes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/12/9, Bobby Moretti [EMAIL

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 1:00 PM, root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main plus of this packaging for sage is that it builds from source quickly (in a few minutes) using precompiled clisp files. Well, on my 2Ghz machine with 2 Gig of memory running VMWare and using the sage vmware image (but upgrading

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: blog and rss

2007-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi bobby, What didier said is right. I know that blogs based on wordpress allow this - I don't have much experience in other platform to tell about them (but my guess is - it will be possible). On Dec 9, 10:18 pm, didier deshommes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/12/9, Bobby Moretti [EMAIL

[sage-devel] Gnofract 4D

2007-12-09 Thread Timothy Clemans
Hi, Inspired by GHOP and a Sage Days 4 talk by Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research, titled Features I wish SAGE had, I went searching for a cellular and fractal visualization toolkit. Well I found Gnofract 4D which all 166 photos at http://flickr.com/groups/gnofract4d/pool/ were created with.

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

2007-12-09 Thread TimDaly
On Dec 9, 3:25 pm, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 9, 2007 1:00 PM, root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main plus of this packaging for sage is that it builds from source quickly (in a few minutes) using precompiled clisp files. Well, on my 2Ghz machine with 2 Gig of memory

[sage-devel] latest R spkg

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
Hi, Josh Kantor and I made a new R spkg here: http://sagemath.org/packages/optional/r-2.6.1.p3.spkg which you can install by doing sage -i r-2.6.1.p3.spkg This should install and work for *everybody*. If anybody tries the above and it doesn't, I definitely want to know about it,

[sage-devel] Re: Gnofract 4D

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 3:01 PM, Timothy Clemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Inspired by GHOP and a Sage Days 4 talk by Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research, titled Features I wish SAGE had, I went searching for a cellular and fractal visualization toolkit. Well I found Gnofract 4D which all 166 photos

[sage-devel] resource sharing whiteboard?

2007-12-09 Thread Rich Morin
Would it be useful to have a resource sharing whiteboard that lets folks post computational jobs they want help with and lets others perform parts of those jobs on a voluntary basis? -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdmRich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[sage-devel] hard-coding symlink mistakes

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
to work for everybody who downloads a sage binary right now :-(. The package singular-3-0-4-1-20071209.spkg fixes the problem. Just do sage -upgrade to get it, or download it from http://sagemath.org/packages/standard/singular-3-0-4-1-20071209.spkg BZIP2: Some minor path hardcoding

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

2007-12-09 Thread TimDaly
Two points: (1) All Axiom needs is a mathml enabled browser with the correct fonts. This is a nontrivial assumption to make. E.g., I have this on none of my web browsers and mathml doesn't ship with browsers yet. Mathml ships with Firefox although you have to install some extra fonts to

[sage-devel] Fwd: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
Thoughts? -- Forwarded message -- From: personal info deleted Date: Dec 9, 2007 4:20 PM Subject: SAGE To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. Stein: I find information on SAGE almost thrilling, and want to get SAGE introduced here at Walden University. I am sorry that I'll be overseas

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread David Joyner
On rare occasions the GAP support list gets an email from someone with a slow internet connection (usually from a 3rd world country) who wants to use GAP. I think everyone would agree that it is important to support mathematicians in poorer countries and someone mails out a CD or DVD. In this

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 5:32 PM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On rare occasions the GAP support list gets an email from someone with a slow internet connection (usually from a 3rd world country) who wants to use GAP. I think everyone would agree that it is important to support mathematicians

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread David Joyner
On Dec 9, 2007 8:37 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 9, 2007 5:32 PM, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On rare occasions the GAP support list gets an email from someone with a slow internet connection (usually from a 3rd world country) who wants to use GAP. I think

[sage-devel] Re: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 4:20 PM, wrote: Dr. Stein: I find information on SAGE almost thrilling, and want to get SAGE introduced here at Walden University. I am sorry that I'll be overseas during the time of the joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association

[sage-devel] Re: Request for testing: FLINT-1.01.spkg

2007-12-09 Thread Bill Hart
I have issued a service release, FLINT 1.0.2 to be found at http://www.flintlib.org/ which should fix this issue. It was a divide by zero which occurred in a corner case in the tuning code for the FLINT integer multiplication code. The code which is there now is much neater, much more robust, and

[sage-devel] Re: Re[2]: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 6:15 PM William, a DVD I can use to run SAGE and demonstrate it to some of the faculty here would be great. Is it permissible to copy the DVD and give copies to others on the faculty if they ask--or shall I just tell them where and how to download it? I see. Sage is 100%

[sage-devel] path problems

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
Michael, I rebuilt all the Sage binaries, and now the hard-coding problem that caused sage: !Singular to not work is fixed (see below). We have to make certain that the new singular spkg is in the next version of sage. -- William -- Forwarded message -- Date: Dec 9, 2007

[sage-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom and Sage

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 6:57 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root wrote: The main plus of this packaging for sage is that it builds from source quickly (in a few minutes) using precompiled clisp files. Well, on my 2Ghz machine with 2 Gig of memory running VMWare and using

[sage-devel] Re: sage spanish translation

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 7:41 PM, Luis Michelena wrote: Hello, I'm an Uruguayan computer science engineer, while looking after an Spanish translation of sage's documentation I discovered that you (a plural you, I believe) have used automated means to produce it. We actually haven't used any methods at

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread root
That or maybe he thinks he can run SAGE from the CD, as in a live CD. (A colleague here thought that...) For that, check out another of my projects, called Doyen http://sourceforge.net/projects/doyencd. Alfredo Portes is the main person doing the work. He has put together detailed instructions

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 8:53 PM, root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That or maybe he thinks he can run SAGE from the CD, as in a live CD. (A colleague here thought that...) For that, check out another of my projects, called Doyen http://sourceforge.net/projects/doyencd. Alfredo Portes is the main person

[sage-devel] Re: sage spanish translation

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 7:47 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 9, 2007 7:41 PM, Luis Michelena wrote: Hello, I'm an Uruguayan computer science engineer, while looking after an Spanish translation of sage's documentation I discovered that you (a plural you, I believe) have used

[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: SAGE

2007-12-09 Thread Alfredo Portes
On Dec 9, 2007 10:54 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He actually did make a live cd for sage last year, but it hasn't been maintained. It's here: http://modular.math.washington.edu/home/alfredo/ I really apologize for this. It was really time consuming to keep it upto

[sage-devel] Re: sage spanish translation

2007-12-09 Thread Alfredo Portes
On Dec 9, 2007 11:07 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's weird, but I was just responding to something else on sage-devel, which is completely unrelated, and I ran across this: http://modular.math.washington.edu/home/alfredo/ In there, there is some old spanish translation of

[sage-devel] Re: sage spanish translation

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 8:22 PM, Alfredo Portes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 9, 2007 11:07 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's weird, but I was just responding to something else on sage-devel, which is completely unrelated, and I ran across this:

[sage-devel] Re: latest R spkg

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On Dec 9, 2007 8:50 PM, mhampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fantastic - that worked for me on my ppc apple laptop. I will try it tomorrow on my intel mac, and linux if I have a chance. This has a lot of potential to increase sage's profile in industry as well as academia. R will be in the

[sage-devel] tgdaily: It is for this reason I don't really see much validity in Stein's first point.

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
Hi Sage-devel, The top article at TG Daily (whatever that is) is about Sage: http://www.tgdaily.com/ The link to the article: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35187/113/ -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org

[sage-devel] Axiom and Sage

2007-12-09 Thread daly
Well,per your request, I logged in to the Sage VM and did sage -f fricas-0.3.1 simply hangs. However, sage -f axiom4sage-0.3.1 succeeds and shows a total time of real 18m42 or, if I include network time real 19.6 which is about the wall-clock time. So there appears to be a suggestion

[sage-devel] Re: Axiom and Sage

2007-12-09 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 10, 7:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well,per your request, I logged in to the Sage VM and did sage -f fricas-0.3.1 simply hangs. However, sage -f axiom4sage-0.3.1 succeeds and shows a total time of real 18m42 or, if I include network time real 19.6 which is about the

[sage-devel] Re: tgdaily: It is for this reason I don't really see much validity in Stein's first point.

2007-12-09 Thread Iftikhar Burhanuddin
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, William Stein wrote: The top article at TG Daily (whatever that is) is about Sage: http://www.tgdaily.com/ The link to the article: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/35187/113/ Author's opinion: First and foremost, they are closed source

[sage-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom and Sage

2007-12-09 Thread William Stein
On 10 Dec 2007 08:25:00 +0100, Martin Rubey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (2) jsmath looks identical to tex, since it is 100% implementation of the tex layout engine. I do not think that the latter is true. I should clarify what I meant -- it is an