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Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by williamstein on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:31PM (#11884355)
Yes, exactly. And I haven't given the talk yet! I'm giving it 2 hours from right now, and I'm pretty nervous.
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by travisoliphant on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:57PM (#11884471)
Good luck, William. You have my full support! Thank you for all the great work on Sage and associated tools!
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by banach on Saturday June 11, 2016 @03:16PM (#11884863)
As a an academic contributor to a mathematical software project (much less mature than Sage), I want to thank you for giving this talk. Hope it starts a much-needed public discussion about this topic.
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by cossatot on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:37PM (#11884379)
Well you've got a lot of respect from this community, as well as a good bit of understanding of the limitations inherent in academia. Best of luck!
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by niels_olson on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:20PM (#11884593)
Best of luck with the talk! I'm way out in the hinterlands of your world but it struck me how small this world may be: as an MD doing some applied ML stuff out in San Diego I have actually troubleshot a bug with Fernando Perez, and know a few other folks from the early days of what became Jupyter.

May you have fair winds and following seas.

Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by acidflask on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:35PM (#11884372)
I'll be there for moral support, if I'm allowed to crash!
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by williamstein on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:14PM (#11884564)
Please come!
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by apeace on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:11PM (#11884543)
Your company is going to be a huge success. You're clearly passionate about this software. And now you'll be driven by the need to feed yourself :)

Congratulations!

Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by hypeibole on Saturday June 11, 2016 @04:05PM (#11885091)
I'm replying (I hope) just in time to wish you luck with your talk, which seemed to me, as a mathematician, incredibly interesting.

Also I'd like to wish you luck with your endeavors!

Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by ddumas on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:17PM (#11884580)
It's an exciting thing to announce, and I'm sure it will go well. Best of luck.
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by nomoch on Saturday June 11, 2016 @10:19PM (#11886329)
As a contributor to sage : thank you for starting an amazing project, and sorry for not being able to convince my university to adopt it.
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by math_and_stuff on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:10PM (#11884533)
You have my support as well!
Re:The Origins of SageMath; I am leaving academia to build a... by blatant on Saturday June 11, 2016 @03:35PM (#11884954)
Good Luck!