[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2009-09-21 Thread Jason Grout
Bill Hart wrote: > An interesting talk by Terry (which I did not attend). > > It would be interesting to see Terry give a talk on the dangers of the > internet for mathematicians. Here are a few: > > * Poor eye health. Constant use of laptop and computer displays leads > to dry eyes which can ca

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2009-09-21 Thread Bill Hart
Doh, this was supposed to get posted in the thread on Terry Tao's talk. Another problem with the internet. Unintended consequences. Bill. On 21 Sep, 17:14, Bill Hart wrote: > An interesting talk by Terry (which I did not attend). > > It would be interesting to see Terry give a talk on the dange

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2009-09-21 Thread Bill Hart
An interesting talk by Terry (which I did not attend). It would be interesting to see Terry give a talk on the dangers of the internet for mathematicians. Here are a few: * Poor eye health. Constant use of laptop and computer displays leads to dry eyes which can cause shrivelling of the cornea a

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2009-06-18 Thread David Joyner
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > > David Joyner wrote: >> Hi: >> >> Sage was mentioned again on slashdot - see the comments to the >> review of the book Beginning Python Visualization, >> http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/27/1327255 >> BTW, I bought that book and

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2009-06-17 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > Hi: > > Sage was mentioned again on slashdot - see the comments to the > review of the book Beginning Python Visualization, > http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/27/1327255 > BTW, I bought that book and am about 1/2 way though reading it. > See also: http://gro

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2008-12-27 Thread mabshoff
On Dec 27, 3:38 am, Sun wrote: Hi, > On Dec 27, 4:42 am, Harald Schilly wrote: > > > On Dec 26, 6:25 pm, mabshoff wrote: > > > > By the way: On December 23rd we got a log of traffic from this Chinese > > > blog:http://linux.chinaunix.net/news/2008/12/23/1054171.shtml > > Well it's something

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2008-12-27 Thread Sun
On Dec 27, 4:42 am, Harald Schilly wrote: > On Dec 26, 6:25 pm, mabshoff wrote: > > > By the way: On December 23rd we got a log of traffic from this Chinese > > blog:http://linux.chinaunix.net/news/2008/12/23/1054171.shtml Well it's something introductory about Sage, obviously positive and with

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2008-12-26 Thread Harald Schilly
On Dec 26, 6:25 pm, mabshoff wrote: > By the way: On December 23rd we got a log of traffic from this Chinese > blog:http://linux.chinaunix.net/news/2008/12/23/1054171.shtml > > Since my Chinese is a little rusty I don't really understand what is > going on :) > google helps a bit: http://transla

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2008-12-26 Thread gerhard
Curtesy of "simplified chinese on babelfish:" the sage function is very formidable, introduced that has such one: “this section opens the source software's supporter saying that Sage can complete anything, to calculates in the global warming effect mathematical model from 12 Uygur objects the rai

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2008-12-26 Thread mabshoff
By the way: On December 23rd we got a log of traffic from this Chinese blog: http://linux.chinaunix.net/news/2008/12/23/1054171.shtml Since my Chinese is a little rusty I don't really understand what is going on :) Cheers, Michael --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2008-12-22 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > I'm always happy to see positive news about Sage, but there's a couple > things in the article that bug me: > >> A core idea of open source is finding alternative ways to make >> programs similar to ones that are copyrighed. > > Sage and its com

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2008-12-22 Thread Dan Drake
I'm always happy to see positive news about Sage, but there's a couple things in the article that bug me: > A core idea of open source is finding alternative ways to make > programs similar to ones that are copyrighed. Sage and its components *are* copyrighted! (Also, the writer seems to be conf

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2008-12-22 Thread David Joyner
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:47 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:09 PM, David Joyner wrote: >> >> Hi: >> >> A very nice article on Sage and open source: >> http://www.math.washington.edu/newsletter/2008/sage.php >> Should I add this to the wiki? >> > > Sure, please do! Done h

[sage-devel] Re: Sage in the news

2008-12-22 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:09 PM, David Joyner wrote: > > Hi: > > A very nice article on Sage and open source: > http://www.math.washington.edu/newsletter/2008/sage.php > Should I add this to the wiki? > Sure, please do! > - David Joyner > > PS Later in that issue, it is mentioned that Okounkov