Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

2008-10-07 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Most of my peer reviewed published research papers involve the software in the complearn package. I (and some others) do wind up citing it fairly often FWIW. Best regards, Rudi On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Ben Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There might be things where software can act

Re: Some RBF code I'd like help with

2008-08-20 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Hi Jordi, I use RBF kernels pretty often; usually for Support Vector Machines (libsvm) or other kernel mixing schemes. Feel free to email me privately to discuss the details of your RBF problem. Best regards, Rudi On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Glib and MPI

2008-06-18 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
I tried mpich as well and it worked fine. So it's still looking like a LAM/MPI bug. Best regards, Rudi On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Manuel Prinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gerber! > > Am Dienstag, den 17.06.2008, 09:11 -0700 schrieb Rudi Cilibrasi: >> 1) I w

Re: Glib and MPI

2008-06-17 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Hi Gerber, I have some information; I am Cc'ing the list on this reply in case anybody else is interested however I think further discussion about the details of your problem should probably be done off-list until we figure out if it is a Debian packaging bug or not. It is not obvious to me where

Re: debian-science repository structure

2008-05-18 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
I suppose to me it makes sense to lay out packages in the repositories according to whatever makes the most sense from a maintanence perspective. On other teams, I think this means having all packages at the same nesting level and in the same directory usually. I don't see how having the package

Re: Alioth project to use is pkg-science

2008-05-12 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Hi Andreas and Raphael, It is good to see finally that these action items are moving forward and details are being worked out. Thanks again Raphael for your help. On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: ... > > I ho

Re: Science linguistics and debian-science SVN repository at alioth

2008-05-06 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Hi Andreas, Wow, small world! I have been very interested in WordNet for years and in fact it has been a major (but relatively unpublished) and recurring interest in my own personal computational linguistics research. I have made first the popular "poetry generation" programs using wordnet, and

Re: pkg-science, again

2008-02-25 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > > > This group could take inspiration from pkg-scicomp or debian-med to > > create his own policy (goals are very similar to pkg-scicomp). > > I'm a little bit concerned abou

Re: open source image matching software

2008-02-06 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
The so-called "Normalized Compression Distance" measure (NCD) can be used for this kind of thing. I used it for OCR of handwritten digits in the paper "Clustering by Compression". You will probably have to fiddle with a small script to translate each image into a new file that is uncompressed and

Re: Science group on alioth

2008-01-28 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
I would approach the question of a team by asking what values we have as Debian science developers. I have already seen Andreas representing consistency and attention to detail, and I would agree that we should display these if we have a new team. I have some other aesthetics too: When I first g

Re: package sponsorship request

2007-10-05 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Looks like an English communication error, sorry everybody. Michael Koch was going to upload the package so the problem is solved we just misunderstood each other. Cheers, -r. On 10/5/07, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:11:51AM -0700, Rudi Cilibr

Re: package sponsorship request

2007-10-05 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
l my packages are tending (standardizing) towards autoconf, automake, cdbs, and consistent THANKS + AUTHORS files. This is my policy decision, it seems logical, and I don't understand how it can be counter Debian. If it is please explain in other words so I can grasp the point. Best regards, Rudi On 1

Re: package sponsorship request

2007-10-05 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
time because it makes more sense to wait until the package switches completely with me as upstream (maybe with a different name) and I re-enable the autoconf/automake stuff that is currently not visible but on my computer somewhere for later. Cheers, -r. On 10/5/07, Rudi Cilibrasi <[EM

Re: package sponsorship request

2007-10-05 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
a Mercurial repos here with the packaging files. I can put it up on a public Mercurial URL (http:) on my server but I am not sure if I have enough access to put it up on alioth or not yet ; my Debian account is still waiting. Cheers, -r. On 10/5/07, Aaron M. Ucko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: package sponsorship request

2007-10-05 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
t; ready, then, well, I might be going for it. > > Cheers, > > Steffen > > On Friday 05 October 2007 16:11:51 Rudi Cilibrasi wrote: > > I am having a hard time getting my package, libsvm, sponsored: > > > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsvm/libsvm_2.84.0-

package sponsorship request

2007-10-05 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Hi everybody, I am having a hard time getting my package, libsvm, sponsored: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsvm/libsvm_2.84.0-2.dsc Michael Koch believes it is inappropriate for me to be changing AUTHORS and THANKS. Actually, I made those up quite some time ago to allow for aut

libgsl stuck, can anybody help?

2007-09-05 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Hi everybody, I have been trying to do a new release of "libcomplearn", a package I have had in Debian but recently has fallen out of date because it is stuck behind the dependent libgsl package. Unfortunately, the libgsl package has been stuck for 55 days now [1]: I have tried emailing a few pe

RFS: libsvm-ruby (updated package)

2007-06-12 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D.
uby/libsvm-ruby_2.8.4-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Rudi Cilibrasi -- Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

RFS: libqsearch

2007-06-12 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D.
Hi everybody, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libqsearch". * Package name: libqsearch Version : 0.9.9-1 Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://complearn.org/ * License : BSD Section : libs It bui

RFS: libcomplearn (updated package)

2007-05-25 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D.
earn_0.9.9-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Rudi Cilibrasi -- Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. -- Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunc

Re: libNeXus mostly packaged

2007-05-23 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D.
worth mentioning I should think. If not then I think we need to clarify the language in the DPM to express why not because I still cannot see it and I suspect others will be confused by this as well. Cheers, Rudi On 5/23/07, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 22

Re: libNeXus mostly packaged

2007-05-22 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D.
On 5/22/07, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. wrote: > Therefore, I suggest that one of the two nexus > file format libraries undergo a renaming. I would also > like to offer up my packages for adoption by somebody > who w

libNeXus mostly packaged

2007-05-22 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D.
Greetings and Salutations Debian Friends, I have been doing some bioinformatic research for several years and had the need to understand the "NEXUS" biological scientific data file format in my program. In trying to find a good library, I stumbled across the devilishly named NeXus library for ne