Re: compiling functions to machine code

2008-04-03 Thread mabshoff
On Apr 2, 10:58 pm, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very interesting. I actually implemented something along these lines (but not near as complete) before implementing the fast_float stuff. Clearly nothing is going to beat custom-crafted C, but you've given me some

Re: Comments for applications of GSoC2008

2008-04-03 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi Pan! On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Pan Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Since the deadline of GSoC2008 has been extended one more week, I think I may refine my applications better. I have submitted two applications and I hope you guys could give me some comments on

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-03 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:32:27AM -0700, PhilippStrack wrote: At the moment I am rewriting my proposal. Your feedback and the possibilities ipython opens convinced me that it would nice to make the GUI as backend independent as possible. I think this might be accomplished by encapsulating

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-03 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 07:41:10PM +0200, Gael Varoquaux wrote: Have a look at my last blogpost, Sorry, I forgot the link: http://gael-varoquaux.info/blog/?p=26 Gaël --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-03 Thread PhilippStrack
On 3 Apr., 19:41, Gael Varoquaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 07:41:10PM +0200, Gael Varoquaux wrote: Have a look at my last blogpost, Sorry, I forgot the link: http://gael-varoquaux.info/blog/?p=26 Gaël Hello Gaël, I totally agree with your post. An event driven

Re: Google Summer of Code Application

2008-04-03 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:05:52AM -0700, PhilippStrack wrote: At the moment I dont know what I really think about it. Me neither :-. This is a hard problem. Whatever code you write that moves forward, whether is has an abstraction layer, or not, will be useful, because it will help us

Let's talk some integrals

2008-04-03 Thread Saroj Adhikari
I hope you guys don't get bothered by a non-sympy topic. I just solved an integral for my homework...but it took me quite some time to figure out the right way. I am happy that I figured it out finally :) obviously seemed easy afterwards... In the elation, I am posting it here for the interested

Re: Comments for applications of GSoC2008

2008-04-03 Thread Pan Peng
Hi Ondrej, 1. simplex optimization is numeric? if yes, we have to compare to existing optimizers. In fact Pan was already asked about this: http://groups.google.com/group/sympy/msg/1fb4377de5205dfa but I can't see Pan replied. 2. Pan talks about improvements to solver without any detail.

Re: Comments for applications of GSoC2008

2008-04-03 Thread Pan Peng
Hi Ondrej, Yes, I did receive your email on March 31. And you point two problems in my Optimization module proposal. 1. simplex optimization is numeric? : Yes, it is really a numeric algorithm, so I abandon it. 2. Improvements to solver This task has been one of the two major tasks

Re: Comments for applications of GSoC2008

2008-04-03 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Pan Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ondrej, Yes, I did receive your email on March 31. And you point two problems in my Optimization module proposal. 1. simplex optimization is numeric? : Yes, it is really a numeric algorithm, so I abandon