[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-29 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 29, 4:46 am, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The relevant file is called config.ini, and the blog entries are > probably towards the end of that file. > > -M. Hampton Thanks, I have done some configuration on the planet for Sage, so I should do this in the short term. > > The plan

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-29 Thread mhampton
The relevant file is called config.ini, and the blog entries are probably towards the end of that file. -M. Hampton On Oct 28, 11:21 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Minh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Georg, > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-29 Thread Martin Albrecht
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Minh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Georg, > > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Georg Muntingh > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Minh, > >> > >> Why don't you add your Sage-related blog posts

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-28 Thread William Stein
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Minh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Georg, > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Georg Muntingh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Minh, >> >> Why don't you add your Sage-related blog posts to Planet Sage, >> http://planet.sagemath.org/ ? > > OK, I admit

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-28 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Georg, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Georg Muntingh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Minh, > > Why don't you add your Sage-related blog posts to Planet Sage, > http://planet.sagemath.org/ ? OK, I admit it: I'm too lazy to shamelessly promote myself :-) I've known about http://planet.sagem

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-28 Thread Georg Muntingh
Minh, Why don't you add your Sage-related blog posts to Planet Sage, http://planet.sagemath.org/ ? Georg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-27 Thread Minh Nguyen
Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi folks, [...] I've cleaned up my previous posts to this thread and rewritten them as a post on my blog. You can find it at http://mvngu.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/sage-301-reviewed-in-lxf/ That post contains a link to this thread so that readers can follow the discussion.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread William Stein
a On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 4:04 AM, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 25, 3:46 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, >> but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C. > > The Numpy FFT

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread William Stein
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Gabriel Gellner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:12:18PM -0400, Gabriel Gellner wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:40:33AM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: >> > >> > David Joyner wrote: >> > > (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread Gabriel Gellner
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:12:18PM -0400, Gabriel Gellner wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:40:33AM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: > > > > David Joyner wrote: > > > (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, > > > but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C.

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread Gabriel Gellner
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:40:33AM -0500, Jason Grout wrote: > > David Joyner wrote: > > (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, > > but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C. > > > The current CDF and RDF vectors implement fft using GSL. I'm in the

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, > but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C. The current CDF and RDF vectors implement fft using GSL. I'm in the process of switching the RDF/CDF vector backend to numpy, and then the fft

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread mabshoff
On Oct 25, 3:46 am, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > (1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, > but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C. The Numpy FFT is fairly quick and AFAIK we only build a subset of the possible libraries there. Th

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-25 Thread David Joyner
(1) Sage also does FFT via the GSL. I guess they didn't try that, but I would imaginge they would be fast since they are in C. (2) I'm not sure what a toolbox actually *is*. Something like an optional package with a nice gui interface? (3) Related to this thread, I just got an email from Cesar (

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-24 Thread Minh Nguyen
William Stein wrote: > Cool!! Do they explain why Sage gets a relatively low rating, e.g. > Scilab gets 9 but Sage 6? Is it because of the relative lack of our > focus on numerics? Not quite, although it must be noted that the primary focus of Will Tribbey, the reviewer, was numerical computin

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-24 Thread Craig Citro
> By the way, I'm not quite sure what "SVD" and "FFT" refer to. > I'm guessing it's "Singular Value Decomposition" and "Fast Fourier Transform." -cc --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this gr

[sage-devel] Re: Sage reviewed in "Linux Format" magazine

2008-10-24 Thread William Stein
Cool!! Do they explain why Sage gets a relatively low rating, e.g. Scilab gets 9 but Sage 6? Is it because of the relative lack of our focus on numerics? On 10/24/08, Minh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > This morning I received issue 109, September 2008, of "Linux Format" >