[NBLUG/talk] Appropriate subject matter for talks

[glenn at spontaneousdancing.net]

I love how this thread is now about computing math problems.

> Take a look at Sage (www.sagemath.org), an open source replacement for
> Mathematica, Matlab, and similar math packages.  Sage is extremely
> powerful.  The glue language is Python.
>
> Roger House
>
> On 04/26/2013 01:37 PM, Steve S. wrote:
>> q.v. "Mathematica" software package.  From Wikipedia:
>>
>> "Mathematica is proprietary software restricted by both copyright law
>> and trade secret.
>>
>> A regular single-user license for Mathematica used in a commercial
>> environment costs $2495 although new customers can purchase the
>> "Starter Edition" for $995. They include eight additional kernels for
>> parallel computations and one year of service that includes updates,
>> technical support, a home use license, a webMathematica Amateur
>> license,[48] a Wolfram Workbench license and three Mathematica Player
>> Pro licenses. Discounts are available for government, charity,
>> educational, pre-college, school, student, home use[49] and retiree
>> use and depend on geographical region. Student licenses cost $140. A
>> general "home use" license ("Mathematica Home Edition") is also
>> available to the public and is priced at $295. Educational site
>> licenses allow use by students at home. A license manager similar to
>> FLEXnet is available to provide sharing of licenses within a group."
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Zack Gold <zack at nblug.org> wrote:
>>> Mathematics can be proprietary!?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:19 PM, jezra <jezra at jezra.net> wrote:
>>>> Hi Glenn,
>>>> When determining if a presentation is appropriate, it is important to
>>>> see how well the topic fits withing Article 2 of the NBLUG
>>>> Constitution http://nblug.org/constitution which delineates the
>>>> purpose
>>>> of NBLUG. While a presentation of mathematics by itself may not fit
>>>> within the guidelines, a discussion of Open Source mathematics
>>>> software
>>>> certainly would.
>>>>
>>>> jezra
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:01:02 -0700
>>>> Glenn Kerbein <glenn at spontaneousdancing.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello NBLUGers,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am throwing around an idea in my head. I'm far from solidifying it
>>>>> and putting it on paper.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking about giving a discussion on mathematics -
>>>>> specifically the derivative and it's real-world applications.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this appropriate for NBLUG?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Glenn
>>>>>
>>>>
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