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iguananaut

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    Comment #18005216

    If I had the funding to do so, I would love to improve use of Sage for computational physics, particularly for particle physics and QFT. It would be great if Sage could serve easil…

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    Comment #18005177

    FWIW, although there are no binary releases that include Python 3 yet, if you build from scratch with ./configure --with-python=3 you can use Sage with Python 3 and you'll find tha…

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    Comment #11888252

    No, the goal is to have it actually in Debian. One argument that's been made against this is that Debian moves to slowly, and an old (but supported!) version of Sage is not useful …

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    Comment #11887598

    The good news on that front is most of the problem is not Sage itself but some of its dependencies. Of course some of the problem children are core dependencies and can't just be m…

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    Comment #11887589

    "Sage upstream (you) does have to change some of its practises" This is also being worked on and there's progress being made. I'm still pushing to completely separate Sage-the-libr…

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    Comment #11887583

    I'm actually one of the few people being paid to work on Sage, and this is one of the tasks I have interest in. Although my personal work is more focused on Windows support for the…

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    Comment #4911707

    bpython is a very nice lightweight replacement for the standard Python interpreter. Nothing but <3 for bpython. But it's not really comparable in scope and capabilities to IPython;…

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    Comment #4911690

    As other replies have already eluded, this isn't really comparable to JavaScript. Also good luck crunching huge datasets on clusters from within your browser with a pure JavaSCript…

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    Comment #4889119

    The difficulty that you're having wrapping your brain around the concept of empathy is good evidence that that assumption should not be made for conference attendees. That said, th…