I had the pleasure of reviewing Amit Saha's book "Doing Math with Python" over the Christmas break and this post contains the email I sent to Amit. Amit, I had a chance to go through the book today. I really enjoyed it and think you've done a great job with …

I'm working on using direct collocation and nonlinear programming for system/parameter identification. This requires evaluating a vector of constraint equations and it's sparse Jacobian. When there are thousands of collocation nodes and a fair number of model states the equations need to be evaluated on the order of a …

PyCon 2014 in Montreal was a fabulous conference. I'm blown away by the Python community everytime I go to the various flavors of Python conferences. They are just plain fun. The talks are superb. I learns tons. The people are inspiring. I love the fact that the last half of …