From Barrett at stsci.edu Wed Sep 15 14:11:50 1999 From: Barrett at stsci.edu (Paul Barrett) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:11:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [AstroPy] Python BoF at ADASS '99 Message-ID: <14303.54773.643419.508724@nem-srvr.stsci.edu> Dear Colleagues, A Python BoF has been scheduled for ADASS '99 on Tuesday afternoon from 4:15 - 6:00 PM. We have decided on the following tentative schedule: 4:15 - 4:45 Intro David Beazley 4:45 - 5:00 PyRAF Perry Greenfield 5:00 - 5:15 PyFITS Paul Barrett 5:15 - 5:30 other projects 5:30 - 6:00 general discussion Assuming that Python is still not well known by astronomers and therefore some interested observers may attend the BoF to learn more about Python, we thought it best to start the BoF with an intro about Python which is intended to be complementary to the invited talk. The middle part of the BoF will be a series of short presentations about current projects and the last part will be a discussion of needs and future projects. For those of you attending the ADASS meeting and the Python BoF, this is a chance for you to give your opinion of how this BoF should be organized or scheduled. That is: do you have any special topics that you would like to see discussed or presented, e.g. plotting, image display, or enhancements to the Numeric module? Or would you like to give a short presentation about a Python project that you are working on, e.g. the ultimate spectral analysis program? In any case, If I don't hear from you on the AstroPy mailing list, I hope to see you in Hawaii. Cheers, Paul _____________________________________________________ AstroPy mailing list - astropy at stsci.edu http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/~bridgman/AstroPy/ From HYoon at exchange.ml.com Thu Sep 16 10:05:22 1999 From: HYoon at exchange.ml.com (Yoon, Hoon (CICG - NY Program Trading)) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:05:22 -0400 Subject: [Matrix-SIG] Numeric tutorials at next conference? Message-ID: Les, In my def, event simulation often means, how an event like interest rate change, earnings announcement, yen exch rate, Indonesian crisis effects a particular index or bench mark by how much and how long. Monte Carlo type of simulation is not unusual. Some combined with genetic type of AI stuff. This has close association with times seris. It take long time for one of those effects to be work itself out. This is not my specialty, but I dabbled in surprise unexpected earnings (SUE) model in the past, so I know little about it. Obvisouly, SUE is a lot easier to measure than Indonesian crisis. I am glad that's not my job - I can try the economics office upstairs for that. I use Python for many projects that requires data structures. I am in love with the dictionary structure. Although I am pretty much required to use VB for implementation, I still keep many stuff in Python. Best thing for realtime data manipulation and no data gets harder than RT data. How about this for flame?: GODzilla sucks, King Kong rules. Even 1984, I see cheap rubber fins. ************************************************************** S. Hoon Yoon (Quant) Merrill Lynch Equity Trading yelled at yahoo.com hoon at bigfoot.com(w) "Miracle is always only few standard deviations away, but so is catastrophe." * Expressed opinions are often my own, but NOT my employer's. "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages." Mauldin ************************************************************** > -----Original Message----- > From: Les Schaffer [SMTP:godzilla at netmeg.net] > Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 6:28 PM > To: matrix-sig at python.org > Subject: [Matrix-SIG] Numeric tutorials at next conference? > > andy robinson said: > > > There is also a VERY high level of interest in the financial > > community in an extensible event-simulation package and a time > > series library. > > i'd like to hear more about the specifics of whats needed in this > area. event-simulation means what? > > > Volunteers, suggestions, ideas and flames all welcome. > > flames? lets see? ... down with capitalism? > > les > > _______________________________________________ > Matrix-SIG maillist - Matrix-SIG at python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/matrix-sig _______________________________________________ Matrix-SIG maillist - Matrix-SIG at python.org http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/matrix-sig