Thanks for the help and support! I need to make PySVMLight a little more complete and robust, and then I'll look into packaging it for Sage.
On May 5, 5:43 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Sergey Bochkanov > > <sergey.bochka...@alglib.net> wrote: > > Hello, William. > > > You wrote 4 мая 2010 г., 22:34:58: > > >> Could you write a little more to sage-devel about why mathematicians > >> might care about "support vector machines" -- it's possible that most > >> people reading this have never heard of them. > > > Being sage-devel reader for a while I may say that SAGE users are > > mostly interested in symbolic algebra, graph theory, other kinds of > > "exact algebra" (finite rings, etc.). Interest in numerical processing > > is much more lower. > > This is somewhat true, but very unfortunate. A big part of the > "mission statement" of the Sage project is to create a viable free > open source alternative to Matlab. As such, numerical processing is > just as important as symbolics to the Sage project. > > And, it's important to me too. In fact, the last major code I wrote > for Sage was a new fairly complete hidden Markov model library, which > I wrote from scratch. That's 100% numerical code. > > > > > Looks like we (Open Source Community) have: > > * R - for statistical processing > > * Octave - for numerical processing > > * SAGE - for symbolic/"exact" problems > > > What do you think about such specialization? Is it intentional? > > I do not like it at all. The goal of Sage is certainly not to be > only for symbolic/exact problems. > Note that R is part of Sage, as are numpy, scipy, cvxopt, and GSL, as > you of course know. These were all added several years ago, when we > decided that numerical computation must be a central goal of Sage. > > > P.S. I've thought on writing SAGEable Python wrapper for ALGLIB. This > > idea came to me when I worked with automatically generated C# wrapper > > for MPIR. It started as MPIR-related project, but now I see that the > > same technology can be applied to other software projects. > > > I know that SAGE already has GSL wrapper, but two projects don't > > overlap each other. Some functionality is present only in GSL, some - > > only in ALGLIB. But is numerical analysis really needed in the SAGE? > > Yes, numerical analysis is definitely really, really needed in Sage. > In fact, it is likely to be by far the most important part of Sage in > the long run. > > William > > > > > -- > > With best regards, > > Sergey mailto:sergey.bochka...@alglib.net > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > > URL:http://www.sagemath.org > > -- > William Stein > Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > -- > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- 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
