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Vince Knight: Picking a good Vainglory jungler with game theory and sagemath
I’ve recently been playing a really cool video game: Vainglory. This is described as a MOBA which I must admit I had never heard off until this year when my students mentioned it to me, but basically...
View ArticleWilliam Stein: The Simons Foundation and Open Source Software
Jim SimonsJim Simons is a mathematician who left academia to start a hedge fund that beat the stock market. He contributes back to the mathematical community through the Simons Foundation, which...
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William Stein
Funding Open Source Mathematical Software in the United StatesI do not know how to get funding for open source mathematical software in the United States. However, I'm trying.Why: Because Sage is...
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Vince Knight: A Summer of game theory software development
This Summer has seen 3 undergraduates carry out 8 week placements with me developing further game theoretic code in Sagemath:Hannah Lorrimore (going in to her 2nd year) spent her placement working very...
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Sébastien Labbé: There are 13.366.431.646 solutions to the Quantumino game
Some years ago, I wrote code in Sage to solve the Quantumino puzzle. I also used it to make a one-minute video illustrating the Dancing links algorithm which I am proud to say it is now part of the...
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William Stein: SageMathCloud's poor user retention rate
Poor retention rateMany people try SageMathCloud, but only a small percentage stick around. I definitely don't know why. Recent SageMathCloud rates are below 4%:Is it performance?Question: Are the...
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William Stein: What is SageMath's strategy?
Here is SageMath's strategy, or at least what my strategy toward SageMath has been for the last 5 years.Diagnose the problemStatement of problem: SageMath is not growing.JustificationFacts: Growth in...
View ArticleVince Knight: Getting your first lectureship
On Wednesday I was invited to participate in a Webinar entitled “Getting your first lecturship”. This was organised by Cardiff University’s graduate college (UGC). The format included an overview of...
View ArticleVince Knight: Getting in to reddit
In a previous post I wrote about the podcasts I listen to. I really need to update that as things have changed but this post is not the update. In this post I’ll discuss some of my early thoughts as I...
View ArticleThe Matroid Union: Google Summer of Code 2015: outcomes
Guest post by Chao XuIn the summer, I have extended the SAGE code base for matroids for Google Summer of Code. This post shows a few example of it’s new capabilities.ConnectivityLet $M$ be a matroid...
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Vince Knight: Visualising Markov Chains with NetworkX
I’ve written quite a few blog posts about Markov chains (it occupies a central role in quite a lot of my research). In general I visualise 1 or 2 dimensional chains using Tikz (the LaTeX package)...
View ArticleHarald Schilly: Sage Days 70 - Berkeley - November 2015
+Dennis Stein brought his cameras and tools to Sage Days 70: Sage Days 70 - Berkeley - November 2015 from Dennis Stein on Vimeo.
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William Stein: "Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis", Cambridge...
OverviewBarry Mazur and I spent over a decade writing a popular math book "Prime Numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis", which will be published by Cambridge Univeristy Press in 2016. The book involves a...
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Vince Knight: Survival of the fittest: Experimenting with a high performing...
A common misconception about evolution is that “The fittest organisms in a population are those that are strongest, healthiest, fastest, and/or largest.” However, as that link indicates, survival of...
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Sébastien Labbé: slabbe-0.2.spkg released
These is a summary of the functionalities present in slabbe-0.2.spkg optional Sage package. It works on version 6.8 of Sage but will work best with sage-6.10 (it is using the new code for...
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Vince Knight: I think this is how to crawl the history of a git repository
This blog post is a direct application of Cunningham’s Law: which is that “the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer”. With the other...
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Vince Knight: The Dilemma of giving Christmas Gifts
This post gives a game theoretic explanation as to why we exchange gifts. On twitter @alexip tweeted “‘Let’s agree not to give each other presents for Christmas’ is just another case of the prisoner’s...
View ArticleWilliam Stein: Mathematics Graduate School: preparation for non-academic...
This is about my personal experience as a mathematics professor whose students all have non-academic jobs that they love. This is in preparation for a panel at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in...
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William Stein: Thinking of using SageMathCloud in a college course?
SageMathCloud course subscriptions"We are college instructors of the calculus sequence and ODE’s. If the college were to purchase one of the upgrades for us as we use Sage with our students, who gets...
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Vince Knight: University of Namibia Mathematics Summer School
I am writing this post just after two extraordinary weeks in Namibia. This is a quick personal reflection of what has been an awesome experience. As part of Cardiff University’s Phoenix Project, Martin...
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