Monday, October 10, 2016

RethinkDB must relicense NOW

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What is RethinkDB? UPDATE:  Several months after I wrote this post, RethinkDB was relicensed.  For the CoCalc project , it was too late,...
Friday, October 7, 2016

RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software

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RethinkDB and sustainable business models Three weeks ago, I spent the evening of Sept 12, 2016 with Daniel Mewes, who is the lead enginee...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

SageMath: "it's not research"

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The University of Washington (UW) mathematics department has funding for grad students to "travel to conferences". What sort of ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Jupyter: "take the domain name down immediately"

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The Jupyter notebook is an open source BSD-licensed browser-based code execution environment, inspired by my early work on the Sage Noteboo...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Elliptic curves: Magma versus Sage

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Elliptic Curves Elliptic curves are certain types of nonsingular plane cubic curves, e.g., y^2 = x^3 + ax +b, which are central to both nu...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

"If you were new faculty, would you start something like SageMathCloud sooner?"

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I was recently asked by a young academic: "If you were a new faculty member again, would you start something like SageMathCloud sooner ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for use in the classroom

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When I think about what makes SageMath different, one of the most fundamental things is that it was created by people who use it every d...