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Re: [Help-gsl] Linear least squares, webpages and the next release


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Subject: Re: [Help-gsl] Linear least squares, webpages and the next release
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:30:56 -0700

Yes, I've connected GSL to AMPL/MP (https://github.com/ampl/mp), an
open-source library for mathematical programming, where it can be used
both by nonlinear solvers and modeling systems that support the AMPL
solver interface. There was also considerable interest in CMake
support for GSL (https://github.com/ampl/gsl) that I contributed
earlier although I don't have details who is using this (other than
myself).

> 2. What functionality would you like to see added to GSL?
> 3. Are you willing to develop and contribute the features you want?

I don't have any specific requests myself in terms of new functionality.

> 4. Would you like to see a quick release of GSL v2.0, or are you content to 
> work off the git repository?

Either way is fine with me.

Thanks for your great work, Patrick.

P.S. Sorry if you received this message twice, sourceware.org has
rejected the HTML email so I'm resending as plain text.

Best regards,
Victor

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Patrick Alken <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   There is significant new capability in GSL now for regularized linear
> least squares problems. I've added routines to do L-curve analysis as well
> as handle non-square Tikhonov regularization matrices. For those of you who
> have large least squares problems (ie: millions of rows in your matrix) stay
> tuned, as I'm working on adding some functionality for such problems.
>
>   I've updated the GSL webpages on gnu.org to the latest in the git
> repository, since many new features have been added since the last 1.16
> release. The main page also now recommends to install GSL from the git,
> since 1.16 is quite outdated. This brings me again to the discussion of the
> next release of GSL.
>
>   The last discussion of GSL v2.0 was in June 2014 (time goes too quickly!).
> I would like to reopen this discussion. The main points back then holding up
> v2.0 were:
>
> 1. New memory management (redesign of all GSL containers)
> 2. Incorporating LAPACK/LAPACKE/libflame
>
> As far as I know, nothing has been done on either of these points, however a
> great deal of new functionality has been added to GSL in the meantime
> (sparse matrices, regularized least squares, running statistics, 2D
> interpolation, monotonic interpolation, new nonlinear least squares solver).
> I think (as I stated last year) that points 1 and 2 should be postponed for
> GSL v3.0, and we should release v2.0 soon. At this point I am willing to
> make an executive decision and just do it :-) but I would like to check in
> with everyone first.
>
> Over the past 2 years or so, looking at the git logs, I've been (mainly) the
> only person adding code to GSL. So I'd like to ask some poll questions (and
> recruit talented people to work on things) and so I'm posting to help-gsl as
> well. Here are some questions:
>
> 1. Is anyone out there using GSL besides me? :-)
>
> 2. What functionality would you like to see added to GSL?
>
> 3. Are you willing to develop and contribute the features you want?
>
> 4. Would you like to see a quick release of GSL v2.0, or are you content to
> work off the git repository?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>



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