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SciPy 1.14.0 Released(docs.scipy.org)
2 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|0 comments
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SciPy 1.14.0: Highlights of this release(docs.scipy.org)
3 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
Hong Kong Polytechnic University Seminar by Prof. J. Nocedal, Northwestern University: Some Open Questions in Deep Neural Network Optimization Date: Wednesday 12th June 2024 Time: 9-10 am UTC+8 Host: Zaikun ZHANG, AMA, Hong Kong Polytechnic
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Jorge Nocedal: Some Open Questions in Deep Neural Network Optimization(twitter.com)
2 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|1 comments
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
Permanent link of TIOBE Index for May 2024: https://web.archive.org/web/20240506201409/https://www.tiobe...
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
See https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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Tiobe 2024 May Headline: Fortran in the top 10, what is going on?(fortran-lang.discourse.group)
5 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|3 comments
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
See discussions on Fortran Discourse: https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/prima-has-got-a-pytho...
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
The developer of PRIMA here. If you use method "cobyla" from scipy.optimize.minimize, then answer is now. PRIMA already performs far better (in terms of the number of function evaluations). See the comparison at https:/&#x2F
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
PRIMA is a package for solving general nonlinear optimization problems without using derivatives. It provides the reference implementation for Powell's renowned derivative-free optimization methods, i.e., COBYLA, UOBYQA, NEWUOA, BOBYQA
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Prima has got a Python interface(github.com)
4 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|8 comments
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The little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station(arstechnica.com)
2 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|0 comments
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Rocket Science: From Russia and Bloomberg, with Love(bloomberg.com)
1 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
The obituary of Powell published by the Royal Society: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbm.201... https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/na/NA_papers/NA2017_04.pd
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
See also https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/which-compilers-are-a...
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
I got a response from NAG: > Thank you for your query in GitHub. That repository is not currently active and will be removed to avoid confusion. > > Unfortunately, using the NAG Compiler on GitHub runners would require a major cha
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Make NAG compilers available on GitHub-hosted runners(github.com)
1 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|2 comments
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
https://www.wps.com
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
Who was Powell? (from https://github.com/libprima/prima#who-was-powell ) Michael James David Powell FRS [1] was "a British numerical analyst who was among the pioneers of computational mathematics" [2]. He was
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
ABSTRACT Michael Powell discusses his career and research. Powell was born in London and lived in Sussex and Surrey. He had a governess in mathematics when he was very young, and because he enjoyed looking at mathematics books, often just d
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MJD Powell FRS in "Oral History of SIAM" [pdf](history.siam.org)
4 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|5 comments
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
Good point. My strategy is to buy a new laptop (Thinkpad X1 Carbon) every one or two years and install the latest LTS of Xubuntu, so that a 3-year support is long enough for me. Over the years, I have developed my notes and scripts to confi
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
Not really. But I have introduced (enforced ...) deepin [1] to my wife, who is definitely not a "computer person". She essentially uses only WPS, WeChat, and Chrome. She did complain a few times in the beginning, requesting me to
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by zaikunzhang 2y ago
Ubuntu is my first and last Linux distribution, which I have used for 16 years without discontinuation, since my early PhD days up to today. The only change during the 16 years is that I switched from Ubuntu (with Gnome) to Xubuntu (with Xf
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Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS: Noble Numbat(ubuntu.com)
128 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|110 comments
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Linus: Maybe I'll be replaced by an AI model(pcgamer.com)
2 points by zaikunzhang 2y ago|0 comments
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Fortran Standard Library: release v0.5.0(fortran-lang.discourse.group)
20 points by zaikunzhang 3y ago|2 comments
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Fortran-Lang Joins NumFOCUS(fortran-lang.discourse.group)
1 points by zaikunzhang 3y ago|0 comments
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by zaikunzhang 3y ago
See https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/88344 https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/flang-new-how-to-forc...
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Flang-new: How to force arrays to be allocated on the heap?(discourse.llvm.org)
2 points by zaikunzhang 3y ago|1 comments

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