On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 at 10:51, Kartik Sethi <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is already a PR #21120 which is trying to implement DomainScalar class > which is why I deleted that message.
Personally I read these messages as an email mailing list so deleting a message is unnoticeable to me (you can't delete an email from my inbox). > Should I add Jordan Normal Form to my > Proposal instead assuming that DomainScalar would be implemented by then or > should > I add improvements to DomainScalar as one of the objectives in my proposal. I think that improving Jordan form and matrix exponential is definitely something to do since currently the main usage of DomainMatrix outside of linsolve is eigenvects and it clearly shows a big improvement there. The Jordan form calculation is very similar and is actually used more widely e.g. for computing the matrix exponential and for solving systems of ODEs so applying the same improvement there should be a high priority for DomainMatrix. > I am a little confused about this. The most important thing for a GSOC proposal is to demonstrate that: 1) You understand the parts of the codebase you are proposing to work on and have ideas to improve things. 2) There are substantial improvements to be made that are of value to sympy. 3) You individually are capable of implementing *some* of those substantial improvements. The exact details of what you would do if your proposal was accepted are less important than showing that you can make substantial improvements in general. It's very likely that if any proposal based on DomainMatrix is accepted then the details of what would get implemented would end up different from any proposal made now because part of the work is in identifying what should be done. Oscar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxSKppvNz24hmc0J7V5PoU0Y2w264_bSEDkZc_LvJss2TQ%40mail.gmail.com.
