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For other people confused about the meaning of BP in this context, it means Benjamin Pierce Fellow. It appears this talk was given in the context of the Benjam
by hypeibole 10y ago
For other people confused about the meaning of BP in this context, it means Benjamin Pierce Fellow.
It appears this talk was given in the context of the Benjamin Pierce Centennial Conference:
http://www.math.harvard.edu/conferences/bp/ http://www.math.harvard.edu/conferences/bp/
- catnaroek 10y agoPeirce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Peirce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Peirce. Not to be confused with Pierce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_C._Pierce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_C._Pierce.
- matt4077 10y agoOr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Pierce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Pierce, my other childhood role model. No, I wasn't too popular :)
- williamstein 10y agoYes, exactly. And I haven't given the talk yet! I'm giving it 2 hours from right now, and I'm pretty nervous.
- acidflask 10y agoI'll be there for moral support, if I'm allowed to crash!
- williamstein 10y agoPlease come!
- cossatot 10y agoWell you've got a lot of respect from this community, as well as a good bit of understanding of the limitations inherent in academia. Best of luck!
- travisoliphant 10y agoGood luck, William. You have my full support! Thank you for all the great work on Sage and associated tools!
- math_and_stuff 10y agoYou have my support as well!
- apeace 10y agoYour company is going to be a huge success. You're clearly passionate about this software. And now you'll be driven by the need to feed yourself :) Congratulations!
- ddumas 10y agoIt's an exciting thing to announce, and I'm sure it will go well. Best of luck.
- niels_olson 10y agoBest of luck with the talk! I'm way out in the hinterlands of your world but it struck me how small this world may be: as an MD doing some applied ML stuff out in San Diego I have actually troubleshot a bug with Fernando Perez, and know a few other folks from the early days of what became Jupyter. May you have fair winds and following seas.
- banach 10y agoAs a an academic contributor to a mathematical software project (much less mature than Sage), I want to thank you for giving this talk. Hope it starts a much-needed public discussion about this topic.
- blatant 10y agoGood Luck!
- hypeibole 10y agoI'm replying (I hope) just in time to wish you luck with your talk, which seemed to me, as a mathematician, incredibly interesting. Also I'd like to wish you luck with your endeavors!
- nomoch 10y agoAs a contributor to sage : thank you for starting an amazing project, and sorry for not being able to convince my university to adopt it.