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And William Stein (founder of SageMath) just quit his tenured professor position at UW to continue working on CoCalc: http://blog.sagemath.com/2019/04/12/should
by leethargo 7y ago
And William Stein (founder of SageMath) just quit his tenured professor position at UW to continue working on CoCalc:
http://blog.sagemath.com/2019/04/12/should-i-resign-from-my-full-professor-job-to-work-fulltime-on-cocalc.html http://blog.sagemath.com/2019/04/12/should-i-resign-from-my-...
- williamstein 7y agoThis morning one of my Ph.D. students (Kevin Lui) said to me, "I may have to implement this [number theory] algorithm for my thesis using Magma, because [some number theory algorithm] is broken in Sage." My visible continued failure to make Sage a viable alternative to commercial closed source math software almost made me cry...
- leethargo 7y agoHow do you feel about the OSCAR [1] project? It is similar to Sage in its mission, although smaller in scope, I guess. And it looks like they were able to secure significant funding (at least for the duration of the project). Not sure what else is different, besides using Julia as the glue language, rather than Python/Cython. [1] https://oscar.computeralgebra.de/ https://oscar.computeralgebra.de/
- williamstein 7y agoI'm very excited about the OSCAR project. It could be very helpful down the road to the overall goal of creating a free open source viable alternative to Mathematics, etc...
- krastanov 7y agoFor what is worth, even if it is not perfected yet, SAGE is nonetheless already an amazing achievement that has helped me in my studies.
- leethargo 7y agoI can second that :-) It empowered me to do casual Gröbner basis computations without learning a new tool/language (Singular).
- j88439h84 7y agoIs CoCalc generating more funding for the development of Sage?
- williamstein 7y agoNot yet. That was why I started CoCalc.
- j88439h84 7y agoI'm rooting for you.