[SciPy-Dev] Re: Next newcomers' meeting - Friday, December 8th at 8pm UTC

2024-01-03 Thread Lucas Colley
Hi all, Our next newcomers meeting will happen this Friday, January 5th, at 12pm UTC (midday). Come by if you have questions about contributing, or if you'd like to learn more about the SciPy community. Here's the hackmd we use to take notes, which includes the meeting details: https://hackmd.i

[SciPy-Dev] Plans for new sparse compilation backend for PyData/Sparse

2024-01-03 Thread Hameer Abbasi
Hello everyone, The stated goal for sparse is to provide a NumPy-like API with a sparse representation of arrays. To this end, Quansight and I have been collaborating with researchers at MIT CSAIL - in particular Prof. Amarasinge's group

[SciPy-Dev] Add a parameter `ymax` to `stats.boxcox_normmax`

2024-01-03 Thread Xuefeng Xu via SciPy-Dev
Hi team, We'd like to add a parameter `ymax` to `stats.boxcox_normmax`. This parameter will not only control the magnitude of the transformed data (addressing the overflow issue), but also give user the option to compute the unconstrained optimal lambda for Box-Cox transformation. The default va