GPL'ed version of Macsyma (commercial package, is it still around?) by the name of Maxima:
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/maxima.html
and here is BIG list:
http://sal.kachinatech.com/A/1/
MATLAB also has a builtin implementation of the Maple kernel. There is integrated functionality, but sometimes you can see the seams, so to speak.
MATLAB is great for numerics, as is Octave a GPL'ed MATLAB-alike system.
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-alex-
I think freedom (with respect to software and otherwise) is a big thing for Ralph Nader (he pushed for punishment of MS for anticompetitive practices). He also seems to have a proven track record of supporting the little guy as well as being a good speaker and an informed, intelligent individual. I am sure he would be in my corner more than he would be in some lobbyists' pocket.
Check it out: http://www.votenader.com/
Also if he gets >5%, then the Green Party becomes an officially organized party and gets federal funding.
If the TMS5400 was to be used for laptops and the TMS3120 was to be used for handhelds... why is the TMS3120 smaller than the TMS5400? Does this make sense? Are they fabbed on the same process? If not, then OK, I understand, but if they are why would a better performing chip be smaller than a slower chip? I would think added complexity and increased performance would make a chip bigger. Either the sizes are wrong or they are fabbed at two separate feature sizes. (I dunno maybe.22 and.18, or.18 and.15?)
Also if one is bigger than the other there will probably lower yield associated and thus higher cost. So a slower chip would be more expensive than a faster one? Again, it doesn't make sense. - -alex- lyx me.
[Linus]"People didn't want to go through the onerous process of productizing a development kernel," Torvalds said. He resolved to change this process with the next edition of the heart of Linux, the kernel version 2.4."
as this:
[news.com]"In the past, development of Linux has been driven by technologists interested more in new features than in having a product that works more reliably than an experimental system. That resulted in a years-long development of the current heart of Linux, version 2.2 of the kernel. "
even though the order of appearance in the article is reversed here. I think they are confusing packaging with reliability. The above description seems much more applicable to win 9X/NT/2XXX/name_of_the_week/etc.
Perhaps Orville was trying to state that a company can steal someone's code and basically say that it is the company's product. This is what Sun did initially (before the Blackdown people and/. got a hold of them).
If GPL'd code is stolen with a little more cunning (ahem, M$) and not just blatantly ripped off, then there is no easy way to find out.
> When it comes down to it, a NN is just a > non-linear function.
I completely agree with this statement. Neural networks are simply very overparameterized, flexible nonlinear models. The problems from training come from the fact that if there is noise in the training data set then the neural network will eventually learn the noise (i.e. garbage). I think the term used for this is overtraining.
Specific nonlinear and linear model structures can be used to do the exact same things neural nets can do IF YOU KNOW THE CORRECT STRUCTURE. This is where the power of neural networks lies. A neural network can (I think) match arbitrary nonlinearity, given enough hidden nodes.
-Alex Vote Cthulhu! Why settle for the lesser evil?
Linux _was_ designed with portability in mind No actually it wasn't. I think Linus once said that it would never run on anything other than the Intel x86
The irony as I see it is one of the merits of a Microkernel design is portability, yet Linux has become more widely ported than most microkernel OSes.
Actually I think this speaks more of the open source development model than of Linux in particular. And, of course, using UNIX as a reference could have helped as well.
When you have so many people looking through the code and telling you about bugs the evolution of the code is toward robustness and efficiency, as long as the motivation of the project is technical and not profit/time-line oriented. In other words, if every one works on making something well and not making something flashy (but empty) or quickly (for fast money/Wall Street) the project will advance in this way. Is also helps to have extremely talented people working on the project.
The Register is known for being good at spreading rumors that may or may not come to pass. Does anyone have a link to the article in c't (even if it is in German)? Or maybe someone has read it (if it not available on their site)?
You can also check out Octave which may have somethings. This is a language similar to MATLAB. There is a toolbox that will work under MATLAB (and maybe Octave) from the Technical University of Denmark located here. By the structure of MATLAB and Octave, the source code is usually "open" (read: you can look at it) and it is in this case as well.
They are providing hackers like Miguel and Alan Cox with livelihoods to code Linux and release all of it under the GPL.
Is Miguel in any way associated with RedHat? He works on Gnome and works for a university in Mexico. Maybe you mean indirectly because RedHat supports Gnome? I think some people confuse problems with Gnome as problems with RedHat. Although, RedHat chose to use Gnome.
OSS appears to be one of the only ways of pursuing a Cooperative / Good of Mankind model of business. Are there any other ideas/books on this subject for other areas (e.g., engineering)?
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GPL'ed version of Macsyma (commercial package, is it still around?) by the name of Maxima:
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/maxima.html
and here is BIG list:
http://sal.kachinatech.com/A/1/
MATLAB also has a builtin implementation of the Maple kernel. There is integrated functionality, but sometimes you can see the seams, so to speak.
MATLAB is great for numerics, as is Octave a GPL'ed MATLAB-alike system.
-
-alex-
I think freedom (with respect to software and otherwise) is a big thing for Ralph Nader (he pushed for punishment of MS for anticompetitive practices). He also seems to have a proven track record of supporting the little guy as well as being a good speaker and an informed, intelligent individual. I am sure he would be in my corner more than he would be in some lobbyists' pocket.
Check it out:
http://www.votenader.com/
Also if he gets >5%, then the Green Party becomes an officially organized party and gets federal funding.
If the TMS5400 was to be used for laptops and the TMS3120 was to be used for handhelds... why is the TMS3120 smaller than the TMS5400? Does this make sense? Are they fabbed on the same process? If not, then OK, I understand, but if they are why would a better performing chip be smaller than a slower chip? I would think added complexity and increased performance would make a chip bigger. Either the sizes are wrong or they are fabbed at two separate feature sizes. (I dunno maybe .22 and .18, or .18 and .15?)
Also if one is bigger than the other there will probably lower yield associated and thus higher cost. So a slower chip would be more expensive than a faster one? Again, it doesn't make sense.
-
-alex-
lyx me.
I think they interpreted this:
[Linus]"People didn't want to go through the onerous process of productizing a development kernel," Torvalds said. He resolved to change this process with the next edition of the heart of Linux, the kernel version 2.4."
as this:
[news.com]"In the past, development of Linux has been driven by technologists interested more in new features than in having a product that works more reliably than an experimental system. That resulted in a years-long development of the current heart of Linux, version 2.2 of the kernel. "
even though the order of appearance in the article is reversed here. I think they are confusing packaging with reliability. The above description seems much more applicable to
win 9X/NT/2XXX/name_of_the_week/etc.
Perhaps Orville was trying to state that a company can steal someone's code and basically say that it is the company's product. This is what Sun did initially (before the Blackdown people and /. got a hold of them).
If GPL'd code is stolen with a little more cunning (ahem, M$) and not just blatantly ripped off, then there is no easy way to find out.
> When it comes down to it, a NN is just a
> non-linear function.
I completely agree with this statement. Neural networks are simply very overparameterized, flexible nonlinear models. The problems from training come from the fact that if there is noise in the training data set then the neural network will eventually learn the noise (i.e. garbage). I think the term used for this is overtraining.
Specific nonlinear and linear model structures can be used to do the exact same things neural nets can do IF YOU KNOW THE CORRECT STRUCTURE. This is where the power of neural networks lies. A neural network can (I think) match arbitrary nonlinearity, given enough hidden nodes.
-Alex
Vote Cthulhu! Why settle for the lesser evil?
Linux _was_ designed with portability in mind
No actually it wasn't. I think Linus once said that it would never run on anything other than the Intel x86
The irony as I see it is one of the merits of a Microkernel design is portability, yet Linux has become more widely ported than most microkernel OSes.
Actually I think this speaks more of the open source development model than of Linux in particular. And, of course, using UNIX as a reference could have helped as well.
When you have so many people looking through the code and telling you about bugs the evolution of the code is toward robustness and efficiency, as long as the motivation of the project is technical and not profit/time-line oriented. In other words, if every one works on making something well and not making something flashy (but empty) or quickly (for fast money/Wall Street) the project will advance in this way. Is also helps to have extremely talented people working on the project.
The Register is known for being good at spreading rumors that may or may not come to pass. Does anyone have a link to the article in c't (even if it is in German)? Or maybe someone has read it (if it not available on their site)?
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You can also check out Octave which may have somethings. This is a language similar to MATLAB. There is a toolbox that will work under MATLAB (and maybe Octave) from the Technical University of Denmark located here. By the structure of MATLAB and Octave, the source code is usually "open" (read: you can look at it) and it is in this case as well.
Is Miguel in any way associated with RedHat? He works on Gnome and works for a university in Mexico. Maybe you mean indirectly because RedHat supports Gnome?
I think some people confuse problems with Gnome as problems with RedHat. Although, RedHat chose to use Gnome.
OSS appears to be one of the only ways of pursuing a Cooperative / Good of Mankind model of business. Are there any other ideas/books on this subject for other areas (e.g., engineering)?