The Vowpal Wabbit (VW) project is a fast out-of-core learning system
sponsored by Microsoft Research and (previously) Yahoo! Research.
There are two ways to have a fast learning algorithm: (a) start with a slow
algorithm and speed it up, or (b) build an intrinsically fast learning
algorithm. This project is about approach (b), and it's reached a state
where it may be useful to others as a platform for research and experimentation.
There are several optimization algorithms available with the baseline
being sparse gradient descent (GD) on a loss function (several are available).
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software
system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK
consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers
including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. Kitware, whose team created and continues
to extend the toolkit, offers professional support and consulting services for
VTK. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including: scalar,
vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling
techniques such as: implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing,
cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. VTK has an extensive
information visualization framework, has a suite of 3D interaction widgets,
supports parallel processing, and integrates with various databases on GUI
toolkits such as Qt and Tk.
CRlibm is an efficient and proven mathematical library, which
provides implementations of the double-precision C99 standard
elementary functions, correctly rounded in the four IEEE-754 rounding
modes, and sufficiently efficient in average time, worst-case time,
and memory consumption to replace existing libms transparently.
The distribution includes extensive documentation with the proof
of each function (currently more than 100 pages), as well as all
the Maple scripts used to develop the functions. This makes this
library an excellent tutorial on software elementary function
development.
CRlibm also includes a lightweight library for multiple precision,
scslib (Software Carry Save Library). This library has been developed
specifically to answer the needs of the CRlibm project: precision
up to a few hundred bits, portability, compatibility with IEEE
floating-point standards, performance comparable to or better than
GMP, and a small footprint. It uses a data-structure which allows
carry propagations to be avoided during multiple-precision
multiplications, and supports addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and conversions.
Wcalc is a powerful arbitrary-precision calculator. It has standard functions
(sin, asinh, logtwo, floor, etc), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, etc.),
variables, "active" variables, command history, and hex/octal/binary i/o,
conversions, and more.
Why3 is a platform for deductive program verification. It provides a rich
language for specification and programming, called WhyML, and relies on
external theorem provers, both automated and interactive, to discharge
verification conditions. Why3 comes with a standard library of logical
theories (integer and real arithmetic, Boolean operations, sets and maps,
etc.) and basic programming data structures (arrays, queues, hash tables,
etc.). A user can write WhyML programs directly and get correct-by-
construction OCaml programs through an automated extraction mechanism.
WhyML is also used as an intermediate language for the verification of C,
Java, or Ada programs.
Why3 is a complete reimplementation of the former Why platform. Among the
new features are: numerous extensions to the input language, a new
architecture for calling external provers, and a well-designed API,
allowing to use Why3 as a software library. An important emphasis is put
on modularity and genericity, giving the end user a possibility to easily
reuse Why3 formalizations or to add support for a new external prover if
wanted.
wxMaxima is a wxWidgets GUI for the computer algebra system maxima.
Most of maxima functions are accessible through menus, some have
dialogs. The input line has command history (up-key, down-key) and
completion based on previous input (tab-key).
wxMaxima provides 2d formated display of maxima output.
This library of routines is part of a reference implementation for the Dense
and Banded BLAS routines, along with their Extended and Mixed Precision
versions, as documented in Chapters 2 and 4 of the new BLAS Standard.
EXTENDED PRECISION is only used internally; the input and output arguments
remain the same as in the existing BLAS. At present, we only allow Single,
Double, or Extra internal precision. Extra precision is implemented as
double-double precision (128-bit total, 106-bit significand). The routines
for the double-double precision basic arithmetic operations +, -, *, / were
developed by David Bailey.
We have designed all our routines assuming that single precision arithmetic
is actually done in IEEE single precision (32 bits) and that double precision
arithmetic is actually done in IEEE double precision (64 bits). The routines
also pass our tests on an Intel machine with 80-bit floating point registers.
MIXED PRECISION permits some input/output arguments to be of different types
(mixing real and complex) or precisions (mixing single and double).
It is a calculator plugin for the Xfce4 panel. The plugin supports common
mathematical operators, constants (pi) and functions.
xgraph is a program that will help you draw graphs. It is pretty old
(based on X11R3!) and required lots of hacks to make it compile. Tell
me if it does something odd.
What is it?
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It's for doing statistics.
Highlights
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* Based on the xforms library (ie. looks pretty slick)
* Point and click interface to statistical summaries, OLS
regression, plotting, correlation analysis, etc.
* Neural network and Genetic Algorithm data fitting
with some nice visual feedback.
* Very handy automatic generating of .tex format and html
log files, including tables and plots.
* Online help
Feedback
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The author (Thor Sigvaldason) is happy to receive feedback
at: thor@netcom.ca