The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
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Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
#2Just make sure to add in some DoD specific modules and I think you've got a winner.
Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
#3For 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:
Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
#4Question: why would anyone Sage > Magma (even though it's now a company. i.e. since there already is a clear and ahead forerunner?)
Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
#5Why did he have to leave academia to start a company if he has tenure?
Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
#6What is the difference between running sage math vs ipython / jupyter and importing all the relevant mathematical packages?
Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
#7For 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/
Peirce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Peirce. Not to be confused with Pierce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_C._Pierce.
Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
#8Why did he have to leave academia to start a company if he has tenure?
As Stein explains in the slides: because he couldn't sustainably pay people to work with him on SAGE, and there is only so much you can do alone.
Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
#9The problem with Sage, while it's an amazing piece of software, that it is abysmally documented. As is maxima.
Sure, there's an example on how to do integration and anything on a high-school level but every time I wanted to do something a little bit more complex, I was completely lost. I found the Mathematica documentation to be miles ahead.
Re: The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a company [pdf]
#10Question: why would anyone Sage > Magma (even though it's now a company. i.e. since there already is a clear and ahead forerunner?)
Magma is closed-source.