Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC 2012

2012-02-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:05, Volker Braun vbraun.n...@gmail.com wrote: The most common home computer is a game console. in 2012, i think it's the posix-world of smartphones and tablets, namely android and iOS. porting to or supporting a growing ecosystem (i.e. tablets) has more long term

Re: [sage-devel] hg.sagemath.org, examples repo

2012-02-13 Thread Harald Schilly
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:13, Minh Nguyen mvngu.n...@gmail.com wrote: @Harald Any ideas? sorry, i have no idea how this is supposed to work. h -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] GSOC 2012

2012-02-09 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 13:42, Julien Puydt julien.pu...@laposte.net wrote: I've had a couple of theories about why applications might fail. 2) The Sage development process is not exactly a shining example of best practice in software engineering. 1. Is it available readily in most

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Are the Sage binaries for OS X are crap?

2012-02-08 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wednesday, February 8, 2012 1:12:22 AM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: as a courtesy to the new users, one at least should put a big warning on the download page of this buggy download (*mirrorsname*/sage/osx/intel/index.html) And tell them to use the Terminal (i.e. non '-app' file)

[sage-devel] Re: GSOC 2012

2012-02-08 Thread Harald Schilly
I've started to write a GSOC 2012 application on the day we got rejected in 2011. Whoever wants to help, i'll add you to the google docs document. I'm fine with any contributions or even submitting this as the notebook and not sage itself. I also got some feedback from the last submissions

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Are the Sage binaries for OS X are crap?

2012-02-08 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wednesday, February 8, 2012 1:18:35 PM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: Something like this... thx. done! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit

Re: [sage-devel] Re: GSOC 2012

2012-02-08 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 20:43, Christopher Swenson ch...@caswenson.com wrote: There should be a section along the lines of vouchers from Google and other large organizations. yes, there is in deed such a section. thanks for your support :) H -- To post to this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] Debugger in notebook

2012-01-28 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 19:52, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I think the single nost important feature missing in the sage notebook is good support for interactive debugging, … yes, the one for flask is quite cool, especially the interactive shell. what's related and also missing is a

[sage-devel] floss4science.com sage interview

2012-01-13 Thread Harald Schilly
Hello Sage Developers. Few days ago, floss4science.com contacted me with a request for an interview about Sage. This is a nice opportunity to gain some attention towards Sage. I think I shouldn't be the only one answering the questions, therefore I've setup a shared (but hidden) google docs

[sage-devel] Re: sage-related pictures from the JMM 2012

2012-01-07 Thread Harald Schilly
cool! -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org

[sage-devel] Re: Updated VirtualBox instructions

2011-12-19 Thread Harald Schilly
ok done. on the mirror page, i even highlighted it as you can see here: http://www.sagemath.org/mirror/win/index.html h On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 22:33, Volker Braun vbraun.n...@gmail.com wrote: I've wikified the virtual machine readme.txt and rewritten most of the wrong parts. There is now a

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Android App

2011-12-18 Thread Harald Schilly
On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 6:39:59 PM UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote: Whoa thats quite a lot of code. Is there more of a story behind it? You implemented everything including an aidl to have the most general multithreaded ipc between android apps but then you ran out of steam when it came

Re: Re: [sage-devel] timeit for mathematicians

2011-12-16 Thread Harald Schilly
On Friday, December 16, 2011 6:42:09 PM UTC+1, William wrote: Do it! http://www.sagemath.org done, it's here: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12168 H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: timeit for mathematicians

2011-12-15 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:50, AndrewVSutherland andrewvsutherl...@gmail.com wrote: e.g. by including some ``warm-up code that runs before you start timing that's a good idea! next to the histogram i did above, i also want to plot the time-series. this should show this or other trends. h --

[sage-devel] Re: Missing digits in numerical_approx

2011-12-14 Thread Harald Schilly
Via n?? I looked at the code. There is a line prec = int((digits+1) * 3.32192) + 1 where the 3.32… is an approximation to log_2(10). I highly suspect that's the source of it. Make the trailing 2 a 3 and it should give you more than the requested number of digits. sage: n(log(10,2), prec=100)

Re: [sage-devel] timeit for mathematicians

2011-12-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 2:36:24 AM UTC+1, Volker Braun wrote: The timings are not normal distributed. Yes, I just wanted to add the same. mean and standard deviation only made sense if you have a normal distribution. This t-test martin mentioned only checks if the assumption about

Re: Re: [sage-devel] timeit for mathematicians

2011-12-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 19:06, Martin Albrecht martinralbre...@googlemail.com wrote: I should mention that we do test random matrices and that some of our algorithms depend on the input (e.g., they are rank sensitive). So perhaps at least for some tests we run, it makes a bit of sense?  But we

Re: Re: [sage-devel] timeit for mathematicians

2011-12-14 Thread Harald Schilly
I hacked something together that plots a histogram. Well, it looks odd, maybe there is a big obvious bug -- but nevertheless, it's not symmetric and in no way a normal distribution! H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: Re: [sage-devel] timeit for mathematicians

2011-12-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 00:10, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: What were you timing? well, it's in the attached sage file, nothing serious: factor(2**111-1), 10 inner loops and 200 repetitions. if you have a better example to test, go ahead or tell me :) H -- To post to this group,

Re: Re: [sage-devel] timeit for mathematicians

2011-12-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 23:50, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: I hacked something together that plots a histogram... I made a second version, that uses the timeit command directly and scales the x-axis manually (i.e. including the 0) It just times the factor function, but feel

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Android App

2011-12-13 Thread Harald Schilly
I started this some time ago: http://code.google.com/p/sage-android/ Might be cool to replace its non-working backend by your cell evaluation code! H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Re: torrent question

2011-11-24 Thread Harald Schilly
On Monday, November 21, 2011 4:42:25 PM UTC+1, William wrote: how much work would it be to make it so we also offer torrent seeds? With Keshav's idea, it was just a bit more than two hours. Everyone is welcome to test them here: http://sagemath.org/mirror/torrents.html I've tried 3

Re: [sage-devel] Re: torrent question

2011-11-23 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 02:48, Keshav Kini keshav.k...@gmail.com wrote: As for actually generating the .torrent files with web seed info in them, T I found a tool called mktorrent that has this webseed feature (in init.c, it is possible to add them via repeated -w arguments [1]). I'll look into

[sage-devel] Re: torrent question

2011-11-22 Thread Harald Schilly
On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:49:54 AM UTC+1, Keshav Kini wrote: The good news is that the .torrent file format already supports web seeds (since a few years ago) which as the name suggests allow you to put an HTTP URI inside the .torrent file as a web-based seed ... Interesting. Do

[sage-devel] Re: torrent question

2011-11-21 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, I always create those metalinks. They work just like torrents, but use the usual http and ftp mirrors as seeds and hence don't depend on others uploading from their computers. The problem with only seeding via torrents is, that nobody is uploading (Sage simply doesn't have the critical mass of

[sage-devel] Re: torrent question

2011-11-21 Thread Harald Schilly
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 17:23, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: That's fantastic.  I should learn about metalinks -- I'm clueless about them.  Thanks. Yes ;-) They are even standardized now: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5854 Basically, they contain a list of hashes and a list of source

[sage-devel] sagemath.org 2011 stats

2011-11-13 Thread Harald Schilly
Hello. Here are some 2011 website stats: Today marks the day when the number of page visits equals all the visits from 2010. 2010: Jan 1st until Dec 31st: 1,030,456 Visits 607,883 Unique Visitors 2,735,611 Pageviews 2011: Jan 1st until Nov 13th: 1,028,793 Visits668,738 Unique Visitors2,548,789

[sage-devel] Sage G+ Page

2011-11-07 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, just fyi, I created a dedicated Sage G+ page here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113421169347512599264/about Feel free to circle it if you are on G+. Harald -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-09-01 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 18:31, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: scipy just for the sake of completeness, the next layer above scipy are those scikits: http://scikits.appspot.com/scikits especially scikit-learn ( http://scikit-learn.sourceforge.net/stable/ ) is quite interesting (ex google

[sage-devel] Re: bug lists of maple, matlab, mathematica, Magma

2011-08-27 Thread Harald Schilly
searched a bit around, you are not the only one complaining: http://www.mathkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/mathematica/15649/Maintaining-a-Mathematica-bug-list this contains a link to mma's internal buglist at http://bugs.wolfram.com/ which is obviously closed. H -- To post to this group, send an

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Vote for adding M4RIE as a new standard package

2011-08-20 Thread Harald Schilly
+1 from me for standard package. H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL:

[sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-19 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, I also studied numerical mathematics and I completely agree on you: On Friday, August 19, 2011 9:55:58 AM UTC+2, Johan S. R. Nielsen wrote: that's a very small syntax price to pay for … I would also say that this is not the point at all. Parsing a string representing a matrix should be

[sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-19 Thread Harald Schilly
On Friday, August 19, 2011 12:02:14 PM UTC+2, leif wrote: It shouldn't be that hard to implement functions which at least partially translate MATLAB / Mma / whatever syntax (passed as a string, or from a file) to corresponding Sage expressions and commands, analoguous to preparse().

Re: [sage-devel] Re: MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-19 Thread Harald Schilly
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 14:27, leif not.rea...@online.de wrote: I didn't have a fully-fledged compiler (or clone) in mind … ok, good ;) About your tutorials and documentation ideas, I think what could help at least for the start is to mention the respective function in the documentation. Then,

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-marketing] Happy First Birthday to...

2011-08-18 Thread Harald Schilly
Wow, already 1 year, time flies by! On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 17:09, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe Harald has some fun b-day stats for our friend.  Have fun! Unfortunately no, because there is no tracking code. Whoever maintains it, I can send you the snippets. H -- To post to this

[sage-devel] Re: size of a Sage install

2011-08-12 Thread Harald Schilly
FWIW, i just did a du -sch * on a recently built 4.7.1-rc2. The total is just 2.5G and the filesystem is ext3. devel: 1.1G, local: 1G. I have an additional idea. If you have a recent linux kernel and want to save space via the filesystem, you can try btrfs with its builtin compression. Just

[sage-devel] Re: website/download stats

2011-08-11 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:15:39 PM UTC+2, leif wrote: There's not necessarily a direct relation between the download speed and how near (geographically) a server is. Yes, that's also my impression based on some tests and so on. Especially when you are on a slower connection, a good

[sage-devel] website/download stats

2011-08-10 Thread Harald Schilly
Hello! As promised, here some words about the download statistics. I focus on 4.7 only. As you all might already know, we have this mirror network and only indirect information about the downloads. I.e. click tracking via javascript. I have no idea how exact this is and the following numbers are

[sage-devel] website statistics

2011-08-09 Thread Harald Schilly
Hello everyone It has been a while since my last update on website statistics. I don't have much time to give you an in depth analysis, but in general: not much has changed. If I look back 1 year, the traffic has increased by about 1/3. That's less than the year before - I expect that this

Aw: Re: [sage-devel] website statistics

2011-08-09 Thread Harald Schilly
Am Dienstag, 9. August 2011 16:20:07 UTC+2 schrieb John Cremona: My guess is the software (which looks very fancy, by the way) just doesn't know how to determine the city very well from an IP address. That's true, they certainly just use a simple geolocation resolver and don't have the

Re: [sage-devel] ask.sagemath.org is down

2011-08-04 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thursday, August 4, 2011 5:35:35 PM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: Also http://www.sagemath.org/ is down I just came home and noticed it. Well, if the fileserver is gone, apache runs but points to something that doesn't exist. So, although broken, things are broken as expected ;-) H --

Re: [sage-devel] Follow up to sincere request

2011-07-11 Thread Harald Schilly
I did not know about Harald Schilly And I didn't know about you :-) On the first page you ask for a name, is that necessary?! Some questions like the first one might be better if there is a list of possible answers to choose from. That makes it easy to generate summary graphics. Is it ok if I

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] Newly upgraded and consolidate notebook servers: millions of bugs?

2011-06-15 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 05:40, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: so we have something to do at Sage Days 31 just tried to login at demo, LGTM! Btw, on https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dckejpjjnjaagdahkdgighlejbckajak are 3000+ installs at the moment. H -- To post to this group,

[sage-devel] Re: new Sage mirror (Singapore)

2011-05-12 Thread Harald Schilly
Done! H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org

[sage-devel] Re: optional SCIP integer constraint solver (Ticket #10879)

2011-04-21 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:03:55 AM UTC+2, S wrote: python-zibopt http://code.google.com/p/python-zibopt/ It's only for scip 1.2, we target scip 2.x ! H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Re: http://flask.sagenb.org -- test it!!!

2011-03-27 Thread Harald Schilly
On Saturday, March 26, 2011 3:03:27 AM UTC+1, William Stein wrote: Broken in *any* way at all? I found a detail that doesn't work for me (on Chrome 11): Type in Graph, hit Tab, scroll down the completion-list with the arrow keys. I can only reach the first two. This also happens for other

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] http://flask.sagenb.org -- test it!!!

2011-03-25 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 03:03, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Broken in *any* way at all? very cool, works more or less just like it is locally over here! I also ran that silly code: s = 0 for i in xrange(1e9): s = i print s after about 10-20 secs nothing happened, and selecting

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Summer of Code

2011-03-21 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sunday, March 20, 2011 11:52:58 PM UTC+1, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: It would be good to get some feedback why Sage is not succeeding. I'll try to gather some info tomorrow! H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an

[sage-devel] Re: No user input in Sage Notebook?

2011-03-21 Thread Harald Schilly
On Monday, March 21, 2011 7:54:29 AM UTC+1, Eviatar wrote: I for example was planning to use user input as a fitness function for a genetic algorithm. I could imagine using javascript's window.prompt() to trigger an input box, but that would require some hacking on both ends (notebook

[sage-devel] Re: Summer of Code

2011-03-18 Thread Harald Schilly
Sage won't be a host organization in the GSoC program. Submitting something related to the notebook part of the python organization might be feasible, e.g. developing a general purpose authentication module. H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To

[sage-devel] Re: Test failure in number_field.py (Sage 4.6.2)

2011-03-09 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 1:22:11 PM UTC+1, Simon King wrote: Both answers are correct. What about sage: answ = K.selmer_group(...) sage: answ == [2, a + 1, a] or answ = [2, a + 1, -a] True ? -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-devel] Re: How to tell if a FLOSS project is doomed to FAIL

2011-03-09 Thread Harald Schilly
exactly how did you come up with 280 points? quoting to box on top: There are obvious exceptions, such as the Linux kernel. Generally these exceptions work because they started out small and the community and code grew together. Therefore I'm glad Sage started 17mb and grew slowly:

Re: Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-04 Thread Harald Schilly
Thank's for your suggestions, but about that: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 15:05, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: I don't know of any way to add a finite element front end onto Sage, I think we should not try to copy femhub. E.g. it's not a coincidence that their packages end in *.spkg

[sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-03 Thread Harald Schilly
I'm in charge this year. I'll write something up and everybody how wants to be a possible mentor please contact me (I'll also contact some usual suspects). greetings Harald -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: profiling Sage startup

2011-03-03 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:56:10 PM UTC+1, robertwb wrote: And this is with the directory presumably in the FS cache. ... just because I read this, you can flush the disk cache via: sudo sh -c sync echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches H -- To post to this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: About GSoC

2011-03-03 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 20:16, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: IIRC we have not been successful in recent times. Do we get any feedback why? No, one vague guess is that there is a limit for each topic and we are - obviously - in a small math software topic. Let's see, trying

[sage-devel] Re: Making Google Analytics Public

2011-03-01 Thread Harald Schilly
I'm pretty sure there are some legal reasons why analytics is not public and changing our analytics system after we have collected years of data is not wise (apart from the fact that we would need to maintain yet another system). There are weekly summary reports that we could publish online,

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the media: article in German computer magazine c't 5/2011

2011-02-12 Thread Harald Schilly
Very cool, do you know if they have included Sage on the CD-rom? They once asked about this... (I'm also crossposting this to sage-marketing) H On Saturday, February 12, 2011 3:28:54 PM UTC+1, Georg S. Weber wrote: Hi Sage-devel, since I visited the Heise publisher booth at the Cebit 1988,

[sage-devel] GSOC 2011

2011-02-02 Thread Harald Schilly
Is there already a google summer of code 2011 thread? If not, here it is. Basic questions: 1. should we try again? 2. who could be a mentor? I think, trying the same as last year with a focus on the notebook doesn't hurt - especially because of the rewrite with new ideas. H -- To post to

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-marketing] Re: Free advertising on Stack Overflow

2011-01-27 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 17:20, Niles nil...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone with control over the website set up a page like http://sagemath.org/development-programmer.html which, for now, would redirect to development.html, but could be modified later, once we have some content specific to

[sage-devel] Re: Free advertising on Stack Overflow

2011-01-27 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:47:29 PM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote: http://tinyurl.com/68e5n6z I fear there is too much on this ad and it's too unorganized. You need to introduce more symmetry, maybe gradients, golden ratio and all that. The font is not so important as long it's readable.

[sage-devel] Re: Free advertising on Stack Overflow

2011-01-27 Thread Harald Schilly
Here is my idea, svg sources are in the same dir. http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/schilly/marketing/stackoverflow/stackoverflow-sage-schilly-01.png H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to

Re: [sage-devel] Re: can sage binaries be stripped (made smaller)

2011-01-12 Thread Harald Schilly
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 08:38, emil emil.widm...@gmail.com wrote: If this proves stable I would recommend to consider that binary packages should be patched this way. I think that's definitely something we should look into! Could you post a bash script? What somebody also has to check is, if it

[sage-devel] Re: can sage binaries be stripped (made smaller)

2011-01-10 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thursday, January 6, 2011 8:59:32 PM UTC+1, emil wrote: contain lots of identical files Here is a line for bash that shows you identical files: find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | sort --key=1,32 | uniq -w 32 -d --all-repeated=separate H -- To post to this group, send an email to

[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org 2010 stats

2011-01-08 Thread Harald Schilly
Because the list of interesting ISPs for UK got some attention, here a selection for Germany: (range: entire 2010, the numbers are visits, that means some unique computer has accessed one or more pages) To give you a comparison, the top 1 number for Germany's biggest ISP is 32,343, the second

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org 2010 stats

2011-01-08 Thread Harald Schilly
On Saturday, January 8, 2011 11:35:58 PM UTC+1, François wrote: data from new zealand (where I reside) Well, you know, the data is just what a whois for an IP says. I just say that there is a strong correlation to a university, if there is the actual name of it in the whois entry ;) For new

Re: [sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org 2010 stats

2011-01-08 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 00:04, Harald Schilly harald.schi...@gmail.com wrote: christchurch college of education / 94 ... and i found this for it: http://sage.math.canterbury.ac.nz/ nice ;) -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group

[sage-devel] Re: sagemath.org 2010 stats

2011-01-08 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sunday, January 9, 2011 12:48:57 AM UTC+1, Eviatar wrote: Could you please post the data for Canada? biggest ISP: 5,023 university of toronto 1,798 university of british columbia 1,069 universite du quebec a montreal 1,002 and universite du quebec 320 (same as above?) university of

[sage-devel] sagemath.org 2010 stats

2011-01-03 Thread Harald Schilly
Hello, I thought it might interest you to see some website statistics of 2010: Visits: 1,030,456 ... +32% from last year. Best month November, with nearly 100,000 visits. Unique Visitors (this is the number from above minus the ones who come back) 607,882 ... +34 % from last year. So, more than

Re: [sage-devel] sagemath.org 2010 stats

2011-01-03 Thread Harald Schilly
On Monday, January 3, 2011 11:28:16 PM UTC+1, Martin Albrecht wrote: That corresponds to 17,000 visits from London ... I Perhaps it's just the size of the city + the number of universities here? Maybe London is the City plus the surroundings? Anyhow, I pulled out the service provider

[sage-devel] Re: [sage-notebook] Scalable Sage Server Architecture Proposal v0.1

2010-12-30 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 13:24, Alex Leone acle...@gmail.com wrote: Comments?  It would be good to discuss this before the upcoming bug days if we are going to do anything with the notebook. Hi, I read most of it and I also read your posting on mongodb-users ;) Basically, most of it is also

[sage-devel] Re: How are mirrors chosen for sage -upgrade ?

2010-09-08 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sep 8, 1:03 am, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: If the ping time to boxen.math.washington.edu is an order of magnitude less than any other mirror ... I've coded this and back then I thought this is a good idea, but maybe it's not. The main objective was to get rid of the

[sage-devel] Re: consistent style for sagemath.org and sage documentation

2010-09-02 Thread Harald Schilly
On Sep 1, 11:33 pm, Niles nil...@gmail.com wrote:  Here's a screenshot of some very basic changes, using the colors from sagemath.org: http://www.nilesjohnson.net/sage-style-docs.png Nice, but some time ago I picked some colors for the website and if I'll ever give it some refreshment, at

[sage-devel] Re: Random banter about Sage standards

2010-08-31 Thread Harald Schilly
On Aug 30, 11:59 pm, Tim Daly d...@axiom-developer.org wrote: Now apply the same lesson to Sage. Assume that 30 years from now, none of the original developers are connected with the code and there is no one to ask. It will happen. I didn't read this thread but just about that comment: I

[sage-devel] Re: http://ask.sagemath.org

2010-08-19 Thread Harald Schilly
On 19 Aug., 01:40, Mike Witt msg...@gmail.com wrote: When I tried to give a thumbs up to your answer on my question, it told me that I couldn't do it, since I don't have any points.   Shouldn't I be able to rate answers to my own questions? It's a reward system, you can do more if you have

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Android

2010-08-18 Thread Harald Schilly
On 18 Aug., 15:47, tuxiano tuxi...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried to search in the archive but couldn't find if Sage is available or will ever available on Android operating system. When I have some spare time I'll try to build a app that will send codelines to a server and show the result. For

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Android

2010-08-18 Thread Harald Schilly
On 18 Aug., 15:47, tuxiano tuxi...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried to search in the archive but couldn't find if Sage is available or will ever available on Android operating system. As a side note, there is this android scripting environment, where you can run pure python programs. There, you can

[sage-devel] Re: Sage on Android

2010-08-18 Thread Harald Schilly
On Aug 18, 10:01 pm, Jason B Hill jason.b.h...@colorado.edu wrote: Does anyone know of a programmers style Android keyboard app? No, but my main idea about building an app to connect to a sage server and send it strings for evaluation is a nice menu that does most of the typing for you.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Days 25 -- IRC support needed

2010-08-05 Thread Harald Schilly
On 5 Aug., 06:12, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: 4:30pm-8:00pm Mumbai, India time That's 1pm to 4:30pm in central europe with summer time. I'll try to be available on IRC, c'ya there and hello India :D H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To

[sage-devel] Re: Dodgson condensation

2010-08-04 Thread Harald Schilly
On 4 Aug., 16:05, Robert Miller r...@rlmiller.org wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgson_condensation Nice, never heard of, but how does the case with zeros work? In the example with zeros, C has zeros and then they do some random operations (?) on the initial matrix to get rid of them.

[sage-devel] Re: experimental packages

2010-08-02 Thread Harald Schilly
On Aug 2, 4:58 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: .. if the difference between experimental and optional could be clarified. Personally. if I could define it, I would use these definitions: 1. standard: that's well tested, included in each distribution, essential, and the

[sage-devel] Re: Cloning is frustratingly slow

2010-08-01 Thread Harald Schilly
On Aug 1, 8:07 pm, Fredrik Johansson fredrik.johans...@gmail.com wrote: sage -clone new_branch takes 15 minutes on my fast laptop (and about twice that time on my slow laptop). That's the reason why I never clone and just use mercurial queues (and also never do hg checkins). When the queue is

[sage-devel] Re: sage-vmware-4.4.alpha0.zip Corrupted?

2010-07-28 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jul 28, 12:53 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: There should be better ways of handling big files on unreliable connections. I think my splitting the file into 99 parts for you was right to solve your immediate problem, but its not a long term solution. I just want to

[sage-devel] ZZ(expr) != int(expr)

2010-07-28 Thread Harald Schilly
Hello sage-devel, I got this from the report a problem bugreport (observed on sagenb.org) and I can confirm this using sage 4.5, ubuntu 10.4, intel 32bit The problem is that a big integer expression is not converted correctly to a Python 'int' sage: z = var('z'); f(z) = z^2 + 1 sage: def

[sage-devel] Re: sage-vmware-4.4.alpha0.zip Corrupted?

2010-07-27 Thread Harald Schilly
On 27 Jul., 09:17, Sazzad sazzadbinka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is the second time I've downloaded this file. And, winrar says it's corrupted, when I try to extract it. What's the reason? Any clue? We've severe electricity disruption here in Bangladesh. So, I often have to stop and resume

[sage-devel] Re: sage-vmware-4.4.alpha0.zip Corrupted?

2010-07-27 Thread Harald Schilly
On 27 Jul., 15:14, Sazzad sazzadbinka...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking if it was possible to make sage more windows friendly. probably making a stand alone .exe? and separating packages into standalone modules with .exe installer for each. !? Unfortunately, that's much harder than you might

[sage-devel] Re: Python, Sage, categories

2010-07-24 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jul 24, 8:10 am, Robert Bradshaw rober...@math.washington.edu wrote: We should do this as part of the tests, collect timing data on each test block (and perhaps even each line?). I don't think this would work for all lines because completing all the tests would take too long (if we want to

[sage-devel] Re: sage is getting big

2010-07-17 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jul 17, 8:36 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: flat:sage wstein$ find . -print |grep pyx\|pxi\|pxd\|.py$ | xargs  cat |wc -l   948712 flat:sage wstein$ find . -print |grep pyx\|pxi\|pxd\|.py$ | xargs cat |sort|uniq|wc -l   453612 Would be interesting to distinguish between

[sage-devel] Re: new talk: The Development of Symbolic Calculus in Sage

2010-07-17 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jul 17, 11:03 am, Thierry Dumont tdum...@math.univ-lyon1.fr wrote: 2) For the ODEs, ... (even if written in f77)... I don't know their work but I think there is nothing wrong with f77 for this type of problem. Do you know f2py [1]? Shouldn't be too hard to wrap their f77 functions in

[sage-devel] Re: Vote for including GLPK standard in Sage

2010-06-22 Thread Harald Schilly
i'm for cbc but since i've just learned that the cpl is not compatible with the gpl i say [ x ]  yes, include glpk ;) H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more

[sage-devel] Re: vote on moving Sage's IRC channel over to #sagemath

2010-06-05 Thread Harald Schilly
which I believe he is the channel operator true, and some others are, too. On Jun 5, 3:03 pm, Volker Braun vbraun.n...@gmail.com wrote: The system in place to officially register a channel name is described here:http://freenode.net/group_registration.shtml I tried 2 month or more ago, got no

[sage-devel] Re: new paper on sage by myself and Burcin Erocal

2010-06-05 Thread Harald Schilly
On Jun 5, 6:02 pm, rjf fate...@gmail.com wrote: Loading and running Sage is apparently a challenge for some people. I do not have any experience trying that myself, nor do I have recent experience downloading any Axiom variant.  I do, however, have recent experience downloading Maxima on

[sage-devel] Re: What's the point of two stable releases in two days?

2010-05-27 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 27, 2:27 am, kcrisman kcris...@gmail.com wrote: But quite different here - there are no email reminders, no anything. We have an RSS feed and release announcements are emailed to over 1400 people! http://groups.google.com/group/sage-announce/about h -- To post to this group, send an

[sage-devel] Re: Better visibility of discussion groups

2010-05-16 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 16, 1:37 am, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: It's about time http://sagemath.org got totally reworked for improved usability and simplicity. A design idea from last year is here: (you need safari or firefox, doesn't work in ie) http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/schilly/www3/

[sage-devel] Re: sage vs. others by nist

2010-05-15 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 14, 10:52 pm, Dr. David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: According to that table, Mathematica can't do the Lambert W-Function. As a non-mathematician, that does not mean a lot to me, but reading. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LambertW-Function.html That's interesting. My first

[sage-devel] sage vs. others by nist

2010-05-14 Thread Harald Schilly
I found a table by NIST comparing sage with other software packages. It's probably interesting for what they are looking for and I think some entries are missing (feedback link at the bottom). Maybe worth checking this out for the future of sage development or building our own table like that?

[sage-devel] Re: sage vs. others by nist

2010-05-14 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 14, 4:32 pm, Fredrik Johansson fredrik.johans...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice to have something like this for Sage (including information about which library implements what, how generally etc), and not just for special functions. Yeahr, exactly. A good start is the constructions

[sage-devel] Re: Knots and quandles in Sage

2010-05-10 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 10, 6:03 pm, Leandro Vendramin lvendra...@gmail.com wrote: I am working in a package for handling quandles.. It would be nice to have a Sage package to work with knots. Hello Leandro and welcome. Sounds interesting and we can help you to start developing for Sage. I don't know knot

[sage-devel] Re: A repository for user scripts

2010-05-07 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 6, 6:35 am, aditya bluemangrou...@gmail.com wrote: I think a site like this could be useful for a couple of reasons ... Well, I might think that the published notebooks at sagenb.org are very close to what you mean. They are just not properly indexed, tagged and interlinked. I.e. if it is

[sage-devel] Re: Support Vector Machine

2010-05-05 Thread Harald Schilly
On May 5, 9:57 am, William Cauchois wcauch...@gmail.com wrote: In my opinion SVM functionality could be a useful addition to Sage. Me too. In my opinion the optional SPKG for your binding should only be the first step. The ideal situation for the future is a SVM class in the statistics section

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