Aaron Meurer

finfo should not require float type for the result fields

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Right now `finfo` requires that the output fields be `float` https://data-apis.org/array-api/latest/API_specification/generated/signatures.data_type_functions.finfo.html#signatures.data_type_functions.finfo. However, making the results 0-D arrays would be better. For the spec itself, `float` is fine, but it's problematic...

Capitalizing RFC 2119 words like SHOULD

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@tomwhite suggested at https://github.com/dask/dask/pull/8750#discussion_r815757335 that we should capitalize RFC 2119 words like "SHOULD" in the spec to make it clearer that we are following the RFC. Another option might be...

Top-level https://data-apis.github.io/ URLs does not work

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The top level URLs https://data-apis.github.io/ and https://data-apis.github.io/array-api/ give 404. It should be straightforward to make these work. The first can be done by adding a `data-apis.github.io` repo on this org...

Store function metadata in a machine readable format

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It would be useful for the test suite to have the function metadata stored in a machine readable format. Currently I am parsing the function signatures from the spec files...

mpmath should not hard depend on pkg_resources

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It looks like https://github.com/fredrik-johansson/mpmath/pull/422 added a hard dependency on pkg_resources. I think this is a bad idea. It forces a dependency on setuptools. pkg_resources is also known to have a...

Don't clone conda or things that depend on it with conda create --clone root

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https://github.com/conda/conda/issues/841. `conda create -n test --clone root` also includes the launcher, even though it depends on conda. Assumedly it includes conda as well.

Use a ThreadPool to download packages

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This will make it faster, but it's nontrivial because of the way the plan module works.

'TypeError: buf must be a byte string' using Python 2

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In Python 2, I keep getting ``` pytb File "/Users/aaronmeurer/anaconda/envs/sympy-release/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 94, in post return request('post', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs) File "/Users/aaronmeurer/anaconda/envs/sympy-release/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 49, in request return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)...

SymPy

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I'm still writing this but you can start reviewing if you want. It's just introductory stuff so far. I need to think of a good scientific workflow example to run...

Citing Jupyter

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What is the preferred citation to use for citing Jupyter in an academic paper? We have used [this citation](https://ipython.org/citing.html) for our [sympy paper](https://github.com/sympy/sympy-paper), but one of the reviewers has asked...