[Numpy-discussion] EHN: Discusions about 'add numpy.topk'

[Neal Becker]

Topk is a bad choice imo.  I initially parsed it as to_pk, and had no idea
what that was, although sounded a lot like a scipy signal function.
Nlargest would be very obvious.

On Sun, May 30, 2021, 7:50 AM Alan G. Isaac <alan.isaac at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mathematica and Julia both seem relevant here.
> Mma has TakeLargest (and Wolfram tends to think hard about names).
> https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TakeLargest.html
> Julia's closest comparable is perhaps partialsortperm:
> https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/sort/#Base.Sort.partialsortperm
> Alan Isaac
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> On 5/30/2021 4:40 AM, kangkai at mail.ustc.edu.cn wrote:
> > Hi, Thanks for reply, I present some details below:
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