Re: [sage-devel] Fernando Perez's talk today at Sage Days 29

2011-03-24 Thread Fernando Perez
Hi all, On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:16 PM, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > Today Fernando Perez gave a very inspiring and enthusiastic talk today > at Sage Days 29 on Scientific Computing using Python, including a > historical introduction with a story about how he accidentally > unplugged the inte

[sage-devel] Fernando Perez's talk today at Sage Days 29

2011-03-24 Thread William Stein
Hi, Today Fernando Perez gave a very inspiring and enthusiastic talk today at Sage Days 29 on Scientific Computing using Python, including a historical introduction with a story about how he accidentally unplugged the internet for the entire country of Colombia when he was a grad student. You ca

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

2011-03-24 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:37 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Harald Schilly > wrote: >> On Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:31:21 AM UTC+1, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >>> >>> Why has a decision been made not to make a GSoC application? >> >> There was no such decision and I wa

[sage-devel] Re: questions on patch for trac_10167

2011-03-24 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
On Mar 24, 6:30 am, "Nicolas M. Thiery" wrote: >         Hi Andrey! > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 09:28:48PM -0700, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: > > I am not sure how relevant it is, but there is a function > > sage.geometry.polyhedra.Hasse_diagram_from_incidences > > which actually may be useful for m

Re: [sage-devel] Re: questions on patch for trac_10167

2011-03-24 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Hi Andrey! On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 09:28:48PM -0700, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: > I am not sure how relevant it is, but there is a function > sage.geometry.polyhedra.Hasse_diagram_from_incidences > which actually may be useful for more general posets than just face > lattices. > > So perha

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Refactoring of posets

2011-03-24 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:24:19AM +0100, Martin Rubey wrote: > Are libraries somewhat similar in spirit to the method .an_element? Nothing has been formalized about them. But yeah, graphs, digraphs, posets, species all have a role between "collection of examples" (similar in spirit to an_element(

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Refactoring of posets

2011-03-24 Thread Martin Rubey
"Nicolas M. Thiery" writes: > How does this all sound? Very nice! Martin -- 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.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Refactoring of posets

2011-03-24 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Hi Poset fans, I just recalled that there already exists two categories PartialyOrderedSets and PartialyOrderedMonoids, with aliases OrderedSets and OrderedMonoids. At this point, those categories are stubs, and are not used anywere in the Sage code. Since the terminology "Poset" (rather

Re: [sage-combinat-devel] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Refactoring of posets

2011-03-24 Thread Martin Rubey
Are libraries somewhat similar in spirit to the method .an_element? Martin -- 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.c

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Refactoring of posets

2011-03-24 Thread Nicolas M. Thiery
Hi Rob! On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 09:47:34AM -0700, Rob Beezer wrote: > The only advantage I could see to uppercase would be if every category > *automatically* came with the infrastructure for collections. This triggers my curiosity. Do you have some specific features you would dream of ab