Fred Rothganger

I have a similar question to the OP. Basically, there is no single coherent explanation of the role each package plays or their dependency chain. I don't consider the dependency...

After carefully tracing all the dependencies in Maven, it seems like the biggest single question is: What is the role of "-java8" packages? How does one decide whether the use...

SciPy sparse matrices could function as a drop-in replacement for NumPy dense matrices. Passing a weight matrix to the constructor should be optional. If passed, use the matrix as-is. Otherwise,...

The original motivation for the absolute paths was to make it easier to launch a detached process from Java. I'll check if there is a good way to do this...

Turns out that for remote jobs, it gets more complicated to handle paths when they're relative. Since this is not a high-priority issue, I am closing this as "won't fix".

While looking at this issue, a thought came to me on how to deal with the remote path issue. I'm reopening this, just to keep it on the TODO list....

Export and simulate are similar processes. In both cases, the commit hash would be an almost-sufficient way to make the state of the code reproducible. To be a complete solution,...

We could start by embedding the hashes as metadata in the snapshot file. As for exports, it would depend on the export format. We could dump a separate hash file....

That's roughly the current solution: use a really big (64-bit) number. Most simulations run for only a few seconds. Thus, we expend space and computation to handle a rare use-case....

From the user's perspective time should look the same, regardless of what scheme is adopted. IE: $t should have arbitrary precision over arbitrary amounts of time, and it should be...