Re: [sage-devel] MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-17 Thread Tim Lahey
hen I'm trying to find the natural frequency since I need good resolution around the damped natural frequency peaks. Cheers, Tim. -- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://about.me/tjlahey -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@g

Re: [sage-devel] MATLAB: viable alternative...?

2011-08-17 Thread Tim Lahey
ing with Octave and as such, they've been getting better toolbox support, but I know I'd have to improve at least their System ID support before I could think about switching. Cheers, Tim. -- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://about.me/tjlahey

Re: [sage-devel] Some comments about the notebook's home page.

2011-04-28 Thread Tim Lahey
On 2011-04-28, at 3:42 PM, "Justin C. Walker" wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2011, at 02:17 , Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> Here's a few comments about the home page of the notebook. >> >> http://localhost:8000 >> >> I'd appreciate what others think. >> >> 1) I was always taught that if you list items, you

Re: [sage-devel] Re: has Apple effectively forked gcc?

2011-04-08 Thread Tim Lahey
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:37 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> OS X comes with XCode, it's just not installed. It's just XCode 4 that >> costs $4.99. However, what happens if people install a binary gcc?

Re: [sage-devel] Re: has Apple effectively forked gcc?

2011-04-08 Thread Tim Lahey
developing a BSD compiler (clang) and since then, people have done work to use gcc as the front end and llvm as the back end. The Dragonegg project is the most recent work on this. Apple wanted a BSD compiler since they couldn't integrate the compiler into XCode on the level they wanted

Re: [sage-devel] Re: test suites for Sage

2010-08-29 Thread Tim Lahey
erivatives aren't presented in a useful form for me. What I've done is located at, http://github.com/tjl/sage_int_testing Once my thesis is done, I'll probably look at adapting it to Sympy/FEMhub. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of

Re: [sage-devel] Cost of Magma for commercial users.

2010-05-29 Thread Tim Lahey
icenses were $1250 (I think). So, Magma's close. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an ema

[sage-devel] Plans for partial derivatives?

2010-05-26 Thread Tim Lahey
e output in a form I can use. I seem to recall someone was working on a patch that allowed one to display (and presumably work with) partial derivatives in the traditional form. Does anybody know what happened to that? Thanks, Tim Lahey. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering Un

Re: [sage-devel] Re: normalizing (numerical) eigenvectors

2010-04-20 Thread Tim Lahey
ing one of the routines that guarantees real eigenvalues. The code is on one of my backup CDs so it would be some work to dig it out. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey -- To post to this group,

Re: [sage-devel] Re: normalizing (numerical) eigenvectors

2010-04-20 Thread Tim Lahey
. Just make it clear in the docstring/documentation that the results returned aren't normalized. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegro

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Supported Platforms web page is *very* out of date

2010-01-31 Thread Tim Lahey
eople that are valid contributors to Sage are mathematicians. So, doing the release management, fixing bugs, documentation, or maintaining the web site aren't important? Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahe

Re: [sage-devel] Prototype Sage Desktop App

2010-01-31 Thread Tim Lahey
for larger projects. BitBucket is solely Mercurial, but only offers 150MB. However, it supports a different workflow for sharing code and bringing in updates. Lastly, GitHub offers 300MB and supports a similar workflow to BitBucket (but better implemented in my opinion). The only problem is that

Re: [sage-devel] hosting the release note generation script on bitbucket.org

2010-01-23 Thread Tim Lahey
w I quite like. You can fork someone's repository and do the work on your copy of the repo and then request that the original maintainer pull your changes back into the main. It means that you don't have to worry about commit access to the main repository. Plus, it gives a nice way for the m

Re: [sage-devel] Something screwed up at http://www.sagemath.org/

2009-12-19 Thread Tim Lahey
tralia. Perhaps I'm seeing > a > different mirror. Perhaps something decides what mirror one sees, based on IP > address. > Possibly. I'm in Canada and the home page is fine for me. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Water

Re: [sage-devel] Scilab now GPL compatible?

2009-12-19 Thread Tim Lahey
On 12-19-2009, at 3:50 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: >> It appears that Scilab 5 (http://www.scilab.org/) >> is now GPL v2 compatible according to their web site >> and the FAQ for the license that they're using, >

[sage-devel] Scilab now GPL compatible?

2009-12-19 Thread Tim Lahey
ll have time to work on it. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Why not distribute sage binaries as a .bz2 ?

2009-12-01 Thread Tim Lahey
e it installed through MacPorts, but Sage requires MacPorts to be disabled before building. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[sage-devel] Re: 0^0

2009-10-22 Thread Tim Lahey
the delta function. There's also integration rules, but they're unimportant for this discussion. So, 0^0 amounts to defining that the Heaviside function = 1 at x = a. I prefer to think of it as undefined and define it strictly in terms of left and right limits. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim

[sage-devel] Re: screencast: how to create a new ticket on trac

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Lahey
x27;re included in Perian (which is highly recommended for OS X users). VLC will definitely work, though. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ T

[sage-devel] Re: canvas3d_lib.js extended to work on iPhone, IE

2009-09-25 Thread Tim Lahey
On 2009-09-25, at 11:36 PM, Pat LeSmithe wrote: > > Peter wrote: >> Is anyone working on rendering surfaces with shading over the >> wireframe? > > Is it practical to adapt the Pre3d library > > http://deanm.github.com/pre3d/ > It doesn't seem to work on the iPod, though which is a nice advanta

[sage-devel] Re: canvas3d_lib.js extended to work on iPhone, IE

2009-09-25 Thread Tim Lahey
'm really excited about the > possibilities! On my 2.1GHz MacBook it is perfectly smooth in Safari. Maybe it's a difference of Javascript engines? --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~-

[sage-devel] Re: uninstall spkg

2009-09-21 Thread Tim Lahey
then compare the two lists. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[sage-devel] Re: log(x) versus ln(x)

2009-09-06 Thread Tim Lahey
the explicit base so the base is clear when viewing the log. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@goo

[sage-devel] Re: Prototype library interface with Maxima/ECL

2009-09-05 Thread Tim Lahey
to have a separate namespace for it? Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscr

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-29 Thread Tim Lahey
10.5, I'm not sure about 10.4. Oh, the OS X Readme should really be updated (and the 64-bit build instructions added). Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~-

[sage-devel] Re: grant proposal season

2009-08-27 Thread Tim Lahey
nt_dates.htm .) SymPy has some support for Geometric Algebra. As for Finite Elements, you can also look at FEMhub (femhub.org) which is an open-source FEM distribution based upon .spkg files. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://w

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-26 Thread Tim Lahey
sion to still work when updated. Deleting old versions is fine, deleting the most recent version would require fixing the Current symlinks. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.l

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-25 Thread Tim Lahey
On Aug 25, 2009, at 2:00 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tim Lahey > wrote: >> >> >> One of the nice things about Framework builds is that they're nice >> and >> contained. Everything is in one directory, much l

[sage-devel] Re: vtk on Mac

2009-08-25 Thread Tim Lahey
I work on OS X with python. So, if we want to support those python add-ons, we need a framework build. The only problem I can possibly see is a conflict with the system python Framework if it is a "python" framework versus a Sage framework. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidat

[sage-devel] Re: log(x) versus ln(x)

2009-08-23 Thread Tim Lahey
On Aug 23, 2009, at 5:54 PM, William Stein wrote: > > Unfortunately it doesn't mean that. I think it just means that "ln" > is a shortcut for "log", but otherwise works just like "log". Is it possible in this change to have function for ln that will print to LaTeX and just call log behind t

[sage-devel] Re: log(x) versus ln(x)

2009-08-23 Thread Tim Lahey
#x27;t invent it. I've rarely needed ln in Matlab, but I've used it many times in Maple. I'm glad that ln will work in Sage. What does the ln = log mean for the LaTeX code? I hope that it will output ln(x) instead of log(x). Thanks, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems D

[sage-devel] Re: log(x) versus ln(x)

2009-08-23 Thread Tim Lahey
of a choice. All use of log I learned had a subscript to indicate the base. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send an email to s

[sage-devel] Re: enhance usability of symbolic expressions?

2009-08-19 Thread Tim Lahey
l get the same result as the others. So, you can have either result. In one, you've defined an expression where u is the reference to it, and the other is an equation. In Maple, if you update a variable in an expression, it will be changed in all expressions that use that variable (once they

[sage-devel] Re: Serious bug in integral using Maxima?

2009-08-19 Thread Tim Lahey
If it isn't possible to integrate with respect to that variable, it should raise an error, not try to interpret what the user means. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~

[sage-devel] Re: Test failures with sage-4.1.1.rc0 with Maxima 5.19.0

2009-08-11 Thread Tim Lahey
On Aug 11, 2009, at 6:03 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > Tim Lahey wrote: >> >> On Aug 11, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> >>> 1) Some things 'fail' a test as they are now evaluated in Maxima. >>> e.g. >>> &

[sage-devel] Re: Test failures with sage-4.1.1.rc0 with Maxima 5.19.0

2009-08-11 Thread Tim Lahey
be updated without updating > Maxima, due to a bug in Maxima. > > Dave > I think updating Maxima is a good thing. I'd like to see closer tracking since there are a number of useful features that are being upgraded (e.g., integration). Solaris SPARC support provides another good impet

[sage-devel] Re: Is new symbolic derivative really worth the efforts?

2009-08-05 Thread Tim Lahey
t your implementation can coexist with the current > one in Sage. Why don't you submit your changes so people can try out > both approaches? > > Maple also has an inert "Diff" operator, your implementation can be > the > Sage equivalent. > I don't like thi

[sage-devel] Re: Warnings on development releases

2009-08-02 Thread Tim Lahey
> > So what is it, (1) or (2) ? > How about, WARNING: This is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable. That way, it stands out, but is still easy to read. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD C

[sage-devel] Re: Preparse is the problem? Sage not compute FFT

2009-07-25 Thread Tim Lahey
ecent > call last) > > /home/wdj/.sage/temp/hera/27292/_home_wdj__sage_init_sage_0.py in > () > > AttributeError: sin Won't Sage preparse it so the 2, 50, 70, and 4 become Sage integers? If I recall correctly, putting r after the appropriate constants should fix it. Cheer

[sage-devel] Re: Is new symbolic derivative really worth the efforts?

2009-07-22 Thread Tim Lahey
rmation >> is stored? In case its just representation, it should be trivial to >> fix. In case the information is not stored... Well, I don't think >> this is possible, it does not make sense that the definition of >> a derivative doesn't include the variable of derivati

[sage-devel] Re: Is new symbolic derivative really worth the efforts?

2009-07-22 Thread Tim Lahey
y integration test suite soon. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from th

[sage-devel] Re: Is new symbolic derivative really worth the efforts?

2009-07-22 Thread Tim Lahey
l spend a minute or two on each line that uses D notation. The other problem with the D notation is that it doesn't match textbooks for teaching purposes. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~

[sage-devel] Re: Is new symbolic derivative really worth the efforts?

2009-07-22 Thread Tim Lahey
way to convert to standard notation. Sage doesn't. In addition, this notation doesn't work properly with the rest of Sage (which includes Maxima). +1 for changing things. Sage is currently unusable for me with this notation. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Des

[sage-devel] Re: Is new symbolic derivative really worth the efforts?

2009-07-19 Thread Tim Lahey
sub-classing it > from SFunction like what is being done for "integration" > and others? > > Cheers, > Golam > Also, Maple has a useful feature of letting you present partial derivatives in the form f,x,x,x for a triple partial der

[sage-devel] Re: typesetting partial derivatives

2009-07-18 Thread Tim Lahey
use \left and \right? Certainly for (x) they aren't really needed. > > > If you have an issue with the above printing, please speak now! If > you > like this, it'd be great if you'd chime in as well. > > Burcin indicates that this is a stepping stone, not nece

[sage-devel] Re: ._ files

2009-07-14 Thread Tim Lahey
and it turns out that many of > the standard Sage spkg's are full of these ._'s. Any thoughts? > > -- William > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > > --- Tim

[sage-devel] Good news about unladen-swallow Python branch

2009-07-14 Thread Tim Lahey
on down to LLVM to improve the Python speed. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To u

[sage-devel] Re: 64-bit OS X Sage

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Lahey
.py [4.9 s] However, both passed on the second time when run in isolation. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send em

[sage-devel] Re: 64-bit OS X Sage

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Lahey
for some time. I'm currently running the test suite before I start using it as my regular Sage version. Thanks! Is there anything specific we need to do for python extensions to get them to build in 64-bit if we want to include them in our Sage scripts? Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lah

[sage-devel] Re: simplify() blows up on ratio of binomial coefficients

2009-07-08 Thread Tim Lahey
o the same thing. We could also have > simplify(algorithm="sympy"), and even someday > simplify(algorithm="mathematica"). I like the idea of identifying the algorithm. It fits with the approach for integration. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-07-08 Thread Tim Lahey
used for my sage-3.4 build or for 4.0.2 if I > figure out whats wrong with my approach building sage on bsd.math! > > I'll rebuild VTK on my mac tonight and check how that works. > > cheers, > prabhu > Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candid

[sage-devel] Re: What are *DIS*advantages of Sage compared to the 3 M's ?

2009-07-07 Thread Tim Lahey
lly careful. At least with Sage, I can attempt to fix something myself and I can see a list of known bugs. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To pos

[sage-devel] Re: notebook as a separate project

2009-07-06 Thread Tim Lahey
t and the Sage developers can use Mercurial to access it. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegrou

[sage-devel] Re: video for sage days 16

2009-07-03 Thread Tim Lahey
for the same bitrate, I recommend putting H.264 first in the list since any browser that supports both formats (e.g., Chrome) will pick the first in the list. The problem with the video tag is that IE doesn't support it, but I think Flash can be used as a backup. I don't know what we should

[sage-devel] Re: video for sage days 16

2009-07-02 Thread Tim Lahey
r the same reason. I don't mind the use of the video tag, but ffmpeg can generate H.264, but apparently the Ogg support is problematic. Hence the ffmpeg2theora. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Tim Lahey
box, I'm surprised that .so files are built. The dynamic libraries on OS X are .dylib. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, s

[sage-devel] Re: vtk fails to build on Mac

2009-06-30 Thread Tim Lahey
On Jun 30, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > Is Sage using nonframework Python build? I don't know. Yes, it's using a regular build. I think some people are looking at a framework build .spkg because it's necessary for any GUI work on OS X. Cheers, Tim. --- Ti

[sage-devel] Re: how to use opengl on Mac, hardware acceleration

2009-06-29 Thread Tim Lahey
e rendering or hardware one. In the past, it was purely software, I don't know if that is true anymore. I hope this helps somewhat. To get the sample code, you may need a free ADC developer account. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo ht

[sage-devel] Re: 3D using processing.js

2009-06-29 Thread Tim Lahey
described on that page. There is code there that should be able to be converted to javascript. I haven't tested the patch since I haven't upgraded my version of Sage yet. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering

[sage-devel] Computational pipelines for python

2009-06-28 Thread Tim Lahey
I ran across this package, http://code.google.com/p/ruffus/ That provides for support for computational pipelines in Python. It has some nice features for support of a task pipeline and visualization of the pipeline using Graphviz. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design

[sage-devel] Re: I need a bit of python help

2009-06-28 Thread Tim Lahey
3, by the same author, which is > not yet released, but is out in 3 months > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dive-into-Python-3-Pilgrim/dp/1430224150/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246227275&sr=1-2 > > perhaps I'll wait for the update. > Dive into python is available on-l

[sage-devel] Re: Naming Conventions for Dirac Delta, Heaviside Theta and Unit Step

2009-06-23 Thread Tim Lahey
right impression. However, I'd like plotting Dirac deltas to be optional. So, if you're plotting something with Dirac deltas and other functions, you don't need to sift through and remove the deltas before plotting. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems

[sage-devel] Re: Naming Conventions for Dirac Delta, Heaviside Theta and Unit Step

2009-06-23 Thread Tim Lahey
, but next to any normal function, the impulses would skew the scale and make all the other functions disappear. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post t

[sage-devel] Re: Naming Conventions for Dirac Delta, Heaviside Theta and Unit Step

2009-06-23 Thread Tim Lahey
given its definition. When I work with Dirac deltas and their derivatives, I just ignore them for plotting purposes. I only plot their integrals and higher. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~

[sage-devel] Re: Naming Conventions for Dirac Delta, Heaviside Theta and Unit Step

2009-06-23 Thread Tim Lahey
olution of beam loading problems. A Dirac delta represents an applied point load, a unit step = distributed load, and the derivative of a Dirac delta is a point moment. I like the idea, but defining a value at x=0 is problematic. Different conventions use different values so making it

[sage-devel] Re: 3D using processing.js

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Lahey
tensions and in particular, Firefox. I like the javascript-python solution since it doesn't require any browser additions. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linke

[sage-devel] Re: 3D using processing.js

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Lahey
uch, it loads, but it doesn't seem to pass dragging to the javascript so I can't rotate. However, it at least loads. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~

[sage-devel] Re: 3D using processing.js

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Lahey
On Jun 17, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I ran across this example of doing 3D using processing.js: >> >> http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/3d >> >> although it also

[sage-devel] 3D using processing.js

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Lahey
Hi, I ran across this example of doing 3D using processing.js: http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/3d although it also uses web2py. I thought it was interesting given the various problems with jmol at times. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo

[sage-devel] Re: Feature Request: element-wise multiplication of matrices

2009-06-15 Thread Tim Lahey
On Jun 15, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Bill Hart wrote: > > Can I ask what applications this "Hadamard product" has? > > Bill. I've never heard it called that, but element-wise multiplication is useful for tensors. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Desig

[sage-devel] Re: typesetting partial derivatives

2009-06-14 Thread Tim Lahey
4 (D )(f)(x + 2 y) >> >>> convert(%, diff); >>/ 2 \| >>| d|| >> 4 |---- f(t1)|| >>| 2 || >>

[sage-devel] Re: arcsin or sin^{-1}

2009-06-14 Thread Tim Lahey
x27;s common to use > sin^2(x) to denote (sin(x))^2. > > I thought we should vote before I make this change the new standard, > as a part of #6286. > > > My vote is for arcsin. > +1 It's an easy find/replace if someone wants to use \sin^{-1} instead. I pre

[sage-devel] Re: Python GIL lecture

2009-06-12 Thread Tim Lahey
, and a lot of useful >> things to know for python programmers. > > I think Tim meant to include this link: http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf > > --Mike > The video for this lecture is at: http://blip.tv/file/2232410 Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Desi

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-09 Thread Tim Lahey
t; > Nick The problem I have with the "new" way is that it isn't standard so it doesn't make sense for typesetting. You'd have to explain it in every paper that used it. Also, in Maple, it's only an option, not a default. If you use diff, you get the standard not

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-09 Thread Tim Lahey
On Jun 9, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > > (4) Should we switch to old maxima format for "diff"? > Yes. At least make it the default and the other an option. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Lahey
e, it's mostly optional. Some functions require it, but there is a function to convert to and from that notation when necessary. It's bad enough that Sage uses row vectors when most linear algebra texts use columns (at least in North America). I'd prefer that Sage stick to tr

[sage-devel] Re: Typesetting regression in Sage-4.0

2009-06-05 Thread Tim Lahey
Sage. > > I can see how this can be more powerful, but I have to admit I'm not > a fan of this compared to the standard df/dx notation. > > - Robert I hate this notation in Maple, but it's pretty much optional. Plus, while I understand using 0-based indexing, the numbers

[sage-devel] jQuery Plug-ins List

2009-06-02 Thread Tim Lahey
Hi, I ran across this web site listing various jQuery plug-ins: http://jquerylist.com/ I thought it might come in handy for notebook development. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey

[sage-devel] Re: sage-4.0

2009-05-30 Thread Tim Lahey
he result of "make test": -- All tests passed! Total time for all tests: 5838.0 seconds Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0.rc0 released!

2009-05-21 Thread Tim Lahey
with Maxima which is probably why it hasn't been magically fixed. > http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3863 This is numerical integration. Integration is also still being done by Maxima, but I'm not sure about how numerical integration is being done. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim La

[sage-devel] Git Plugin for Mercurial

2009-05-18 Thread Tim Lahey
g-svn bridge. It's still a work in progress, though. It doesn't require that Git be installed. I just wish the reverse functionality was available. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Horizon (comments)

2009-05-18 Thread Tim Lahey
don't even have a spkg yet). And be compatible with > Sage. That's it. > Are the custom libraries going to be .spkg as well? So, people using the full version of Sage can install them? Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Wate

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Horizon (comments)

2009-05-17 Thread Tim Lahey
e to make them available. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from t

[sage-devel] Re: Sage Horizon (comments)

2009-05-17 Thread Tim Lahey
es of MATLAB and Mathematica are the toolboxes that are available. MATLAB at least makes it quite easy to package a new toolbox, if we can have a simple way to make and distribute new Sage toolboxes, that would go a long way. Then, if it's clear that particular toolboxes are seeing a lot of use

[sage-devel] Re: sage days video and photos

2009-05-16 Thread Tim Lahey
it allowed me to finally put faces to some of the names on here. I'll be watching the others when I can. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To po

[sage-devel] Re: Clarification of Sage and GPL

2009-05-06 Thread Tim Lahey
don't want > this, use LGPL'd libraries or similar. > The main difference of the LGPL is as far as I know that it allows you > to use an interface to the LGPL'd code without LGPL'ing your own code. > Doesn't both Maple and Mathematica make use of GMP

[sage-devel] Re: find_minimum_on_interval and #2607

2009-05-01 Thread Tim Lahey
t GPL compatible. It would be a nice optional package, though. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@google

[sage-devel] Re: Maple 13

2009-04-29 Thread Tim Lahey
know it's been broken for several versions. I've had to tell my students to do the integration by hand and then use Maple to plot for one of my courses. I know others have encountered it too. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of W

[sage-devel] Re: Maple 13

2009-04-29 Thread Tim Lahey
py and lets us know > what this is. > According to the help page: http://www.maplesoft.com/support/help/view.aspx?path=DrawPlanar It's just plotting the graphs. Nothing that Sage doesn't already have. Note that Maple has put all their help pages on-line now. Cheers, Ti

[sage-devel] Re: Maple 13

2009-04-29 Thread Tim Lahey
your code. It's a pretty good idea and maybe something could be done using the Canvas and javascript. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To

[sage-devel] Re: Functional derivative in Sage using pynac

2009-04-26 Thread Tim Lahey
On Apr 26, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Tim Lahey > wrote: >> I decided to wait until pynac had stabilized a bit and was better >> integrated into the Sage which appears to be around the 4.0 >&

[sage-devel] Re: Functional derivative in Sage using pynac

2009-04-26 Thread Tim Lahey
On Apr 26, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > > Hi, > > I am wondering whether anyone is implementing > Functional derivative using pynac in Sage? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_derivative > > While searching through sage-devel list, I foun

[sage-devel] Re: Indefinite Integration [WAS: programming: define a new function]

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Lahey
ed sympy much, but I guess it is since they're planning on improvements. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to s

[sage-devel] Re: programming: define a new function

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Lahey
ture, I'd be >> happy to hear >> them. >> >> I've now started using GitHub's issues to do bug/issue tracking for >> the code. > > What's the github name? The issue tracker: http://github.com/tjl/sage_int_testing/issues and the main repository:

[sage-devel] Re: programming: define a new function

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Lahey
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Carl Witty wrote: > > > Couldn't you just pick random values for all of the symbolic constants, as > well? Yes, but over what range? If you do that, you've just ensured that it is correct for those points. It also could get expensive if you have multiple constan

[sage-devel] Re: programming: define a new function

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Lahey
ble to have simplification bugs, but I'll have to rely upon separate tests of the simplification system. Cheers, Tim Lahey. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage

[sage-devel] Re: programming: define a new function

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Lahey
he returned result. I'm currently aiming to finish the test suite just for Sage/Maxima and I'll go back and address the various issues (like testing SymPy) once that's complete. Cheers, Tim Lahey. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send em

[sage-devel] Re: programming: define a new function

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Lahey
st has different steps to properly compare the output to the Schaum's result. The multiple solutions also pose an additional difficulty. Cheers, Tim Lahey. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe fro

[sage-devel] Re: programming: define a new function

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Lahey
but a nice thing is that it's in Python, so it's easy to work with. > > Ondrej At some point I probably should get around to joining that group. If you have any suggestions for the testing architecture, I'd be happy to hear them. I've now started using GitHub's issue

[sage-devel] Re: programming: define a new function

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Lahey
plified, hopefully to a constant. > > How does Sympy compare? As far as I know, it hasn't been tested with it yet. I'm planning support for it, but I need to do some work in order to get the test suite working with it. It's on my list. Cheers, Tim Lahey. --~--~-~--~

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