[Numpy-discussion] Default builds of OpenBLAS development branch are now fork safe

2014-02-19 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Hey all, Just a heads up: thanks to the tireless work of Olivier Grisel, the OpenBLAS development branch is now fork-safe when built with its default threading support. (It is still not thread-safe when built using OMP for threading and gcc, but this is not the default.) Gory details: https://git

[Numpy-discussion] PR adding an axis argument to np.bincount

2014-02-19 Thread Jaime Fernández del Río
I have just submitted a PR (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4330) adding an axis argument to bincount. It lets you do things that would have been hard before, but the UI when broadcasting arrays together and having an axis argument can get tricky, and there is no obvious example already in plac

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Suggestions for GSoC Projects

2014-02-19 Thread Jennifer stone
If you are interested in the hypergeometric numerical evaluation, it's > probably a good idea to take a look at this recent master's thesis > written on the problem: > > http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/porterm/research/pearson_final.pdf > > The th

Re: [Numpy-discussion] New (old) function proposal.

2014-02-19 Thread Warren Weckesser
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Sebastian Berg wrote: > On Di, 2014-02-18 at 09:05 -0700, Charles R Harris wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > > > There is an old ticket, #1499, that suggest adding a segment_axis > > function. > > > > def segment_axis(a, length, overlap=0, axis=None, end='cut', endvalue

Re: [Numpy-discussion] except expression discussion on python-ideas

2014-02-19 Thread Benjamin Root
So, this is kind of like Perl's "unless"? On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > I would like to invite numpy community to weigh in on the idea that is > getting momentum at > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-February/025437.html > > The main motivat

Re: [Numpy-discussion] except expression discussion on python-ideas

2014-02-19 Thread Robert Kern
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > I would like to invite numpy community to weigh in on the idea that is > getting momentum at > > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-February/025437.html > > The main motivation is to provide syntactic alternative to pr