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Martin Albrecht: M4RI 20121224
I have just pushed the button to release M4RI 20121224. The main feature of this release is a considerable performance improvement. It all started with Fast matrix decomposition in F2 by Enrico...
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Vince Knight: Some analysis of the game shut the box
This Christmas, +Zoe Prytherch and I got my mother a small board game called: "Shut the Box" (also known as "Tric-Trac", "Canoga", "Klackers", "Zoltan Box", "Batten Down the Hatches", or "High Rollers"...
View ArticleLee Worden: WorkingWiki + sage + adaptive dynamics demo
Publish Date: Sat, 12/22/2012 - 23:21I didn't mean it as a demo - I did it to get some work done. But now I have a wiki page that demonstrates using Sage to do symbolic mathematics in a WorkingWiki...
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Martin Albrecht: LPN and SVP
I am currently attending ESC 2013 in Mondorf, Luxembourg. Over dinner someone mentioned that there is no known reduction from LPN to lattice reduction, i.e., it is not known that you can solve LPN with...
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Sébastien Labbé: Python function vs Symbolic function in Sage
This message is about differences between a Python function and a symbolic function. This is also explained in the Some Common Issues with Functions page in the Sage Tutorial.In Sage, one may define a...
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Sébastien Labbé: Understanding Python class inheritance and Sage coding...
Since Sage Days 20 at Marseille held in January 2010, I have been doing the same example over and over again each time I showed someone else how object oriented coding works in Python: using fruits,...
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Sébastien Labbé: Using sage in the new ipython notebook
Ticket #12719 (Upgrade to IPython 0.13) was merged into sage-5.7.beta1. This took a lot of energy (see the number of comments in the ticket and especially the number of patches and dependencies). Big...
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Marshall Hampton: The Singular Value Decomposition and Congressional Voting
I am teaching a class about the SVD (Singular Value Decomposition) of a matrix this week. I was inspired by a nice article of Carla Martin and Mason Porter, "The extraordinary SVD", to compute the SVD...
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David Joyner: Paley graphs in Sage
Let be a prime power such that . Note that this implies that the unique finite field of order , , has a square root of . Now let and By hypothesis, if and only if . By definition is the Paley graph of...
View ArticleHarald Schilly: Sage 5.8
Sage 5.8 has been released, download it here.Also, the documentation page has been updated to reflect the new thematic tutorials. I highly recommend to browse through all those topics to learn more...
View ArticleVince Knight: Open Source and/or Free Game Theory Software
Last week I posted some python code I've been putting together:The github repo is hereA website with user guide and some videos is hereThe code is currently a collection of 4 tools that can solve 4...
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Vince Knight: Makefiles for tikz sagemath and teaching notes written in markdown
So I've posted before on multiple occasions about PCUTL which is a higher education certification process I'm currently undergoing. One of the things I paid particular attention to in my latest...
View ArticleHarald Schilly: Sage part of Google's Summer of Code 2013
Good News, like last year Sage is once again part of Google's Summer of Code. This means, until April 22 at 19:00 UTC students can submit their applications and mentors will review them and do the...
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Martin Albrecht: Sage and Lmonade Accepted for Google Summer of Code 2013
Both the Sage and the lmonade project were successful in applying to Google Summer of Code 2013. If you are a student head over to their respective GSOC pages and get in touch. If you want to do a...
View ArticlePolyBoRi Blog: Release of PolyBoRi 0.8.3
Already some time ago we had released PolyBoRi 0.8.3 at https://sourceforge.net/projects/polybori/files/polybori/0.8.3/ Among minor fixes it improves the support of multiple Python installations,...
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Vince Knight: Counting semi magic squares using generating functions and Sage.
+John Cook has written a couple of posts recently that caught my eye and they kind of start with this one: Rolling dice for normal sample: Python version.Go check it out it's pretty cool but basically...
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Martin Albrecht: BKW: Update
We have updated our pre-print titled “On the Complexity of the BKW Algorithm on LWE” on ePrint. There are two main changes and the reasons why I am mentioning this update here. We included a more...
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Vince Knight: Probability of saying 'yes' to academic responsibilities
I've just read a great post by +Adriana Salerno: Learning to say no.In that post Adriana discusses how in mathematics (and I'm sure a bunch of other/most fields) one needs a long period of...
View ArticleHarald Schilly: Sage announces 3 GSoC projects
Sage is pleased to announce three Google Summer of Code projects for 2013. They focus on speed improvements of symbolic functions, simplifying the distribution and installation procedure on...
View ArticleEviatar Bach: Google Summer of Code introduction
I'm excited to have been chosen for Google Summer of Code 2013! I'm going to be working on Sage under the mentorship of Flavia Stan and Burcin Erocal. You can see my proposal on Google Docs. I'm going...
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