[Numpy-discussion] Select-based median (in light of code freeze)

[Anthony Scopatz]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Travis Oliphant <travis at continuum.io>wrote:

> That reminds me.
>
> How many NumPy devs are going to be at SciPy this year?    It would be
> good to have a NumPy sprint there.   Ideas for what we could work on:
>
> 1) Make progress on the 1.7.0 release
> 2) Make progress on the conversion to Github
> 3) Make progress against tickets and PRs
>
> If enough NumPy devs will be there, we should plan to have a BOF as well.
>

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Be Well
Anthony


>
> Best,
>
> -Travis
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Charles R Harris wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mike Ressler <mike.ressler at alum.mit.edu>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Charles R Harris
>> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I was thinking of adding quickselect, but if you have made a start ...
>> go
>> > for it.
>>
>> This is territory where I personally am fearful to tread - I'm no
>> developer, but I am an awfully good alpha/beta tester! I can go back
>> to the archives and try to see how far people got and what it would
>> take to finish it.
>>
>> If you have a good quickselect, I could wrap median around it and see
>> how it behaves. I am happy to help push things along, but frankly
>> would be embarrassed to have any low-level code I wrote see the light
>> of day. I can test and document it in exchange though.
>>
>>
> It might be a good sprint for scipy2012 if any interested folks are going
> to be there. I was going to do additional cleanups of the sorting functions
> in any case.
>
> Chuck
>
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