Mailman 3 August 2019 - NumPy-Discussion

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by Charles R Harris 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

Hi All, There is a PR <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14197> up that adds a "mode" variable to `multivariate_normal`. It allows choosing various options for factoring the passed covariance. 1. "fast" -- cholesky (x45 legacy method) 2. "default" -- eigh (used in R I believe) 3. "legacy" -- svd (current method) 4. "factor" -- proposed Feedback is welcome. Chuck

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NumPy Community Meeting Wednesday, July 17
by Sebastian Berg 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

Hi all, There will be a NumPy Community meeting Wednesday August 7 at 11 am Pacific Time. Everyone is invited to join in and edit the work-in- progress meeting topics and notes: https://hackmd.io/76o-IxCjQX2mOXO_wwkcpg Best wishes Sebastian PS: (Sorry if you recently updated the file, I may have deleted some changes)

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did anyone create numpy.slack.com?
by Ralf Gommers 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

Hi all, I was trying to create a Slack workspace named numpy, but it turns out that numpy.slack.com already exists. Does anyone have access to it or knows who is administering it? Thanks, Ralf

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NEP 28 — A standard community policy for dropping support of old Python and NumPy versions
by Thomas Caswell 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

Folks, This NEP is a proposing a standard policy for the community to determine when we age-out support for old versions of Python. This came out of in-person discussions at SciPy earlier in July and scattered discussion across github. This is being proposed by maintainers from Matplotlib, scikit-learn, IPython, Jupyter, yt, SciPy, NumPy, and scikit-image. TL;DR: We propose only supporting versions of CPython initially released in the preceding 42 months of a major or minor release of any of our projects. Please see https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14086 and keep the discussion there as there are many interested parties (from the other projects) that may not be subscribed to the numpy mailing list. Tom -- Thomas Caswell tcaswell(a)gmail.com

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proposal to accept NEP 28 (numpy.org website redesign)
by Ralf Gommers 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

Hi all, I propose to accept NEP 28 (https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/14032). Discussion seems to have died down, and there have been no major objections raised. In addition to the discussion on the PR, we had some discussion on translations in the community call 1.5 weeks ago. We decided that it was low-risk/impact to simply try this out with one language, and Zijie already volunteered to help so we can try this with Mandarin. Once that's done, we can evaluate the process and the cost/benefit better. If there are no substantive objections within 5 days from this email, then the NEP will be accepted. Cheers, Ralf

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