I have the following situation:

HB:=Bend(L,a,n);

Bend is a proc, that returns a Record with info based on its parameters. I would like to get access to the name I assign to (i.e. HB) in the proc. Any chance?

Mac Dude

PS: I can of course kludge things by adding an argument to the proc Bend. But I'd like to avoid that.

I am running a Maple procedure in CLI Maple (mainly because it just provides colored random numbers for other work). When the procedure runs I am getting this kind of output scrolling by:

memory used=10732.9MB, alloc=344.0MB, time=895.85
memory used=10809.2MB, alloc=345.6MB, time=904.26
memory used=10885.5MB, alloc=347.3MB, time=912.67
memory used=10961.8MB, alloc=348.9MB, time=921.27
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So I am wondering what "memory used" and "memory allocated" mean here. In "Activity Monitor" (this is Mac OS X) I see that the "memory allocated" values correspond rather closely to the "real memory" usage. No idea what the "memory used" column is. Note that this is a 32 bit process running on a PPS Mac, and it merrily "uses" unlimited amounts of memory that don't exist on the machine and that a 32 bit process should not be able to use (I think Mac OS X limits 32 bit processes to 4 GB). It is clearly not paging as the machine stays perfectly useable.

So, what am I to make of these numbers?

Mac Dude.

Statistics:-Histogram by default choses the vertical axis such that the area under the histogram is 1 (or something like that). In my work, I invariably need to add "frequencyscale=absolute" to get the scale I need. Is there any way to make this the default? Typing this every time gets so old... I have been looking to something analogous to plots:-setoptions but that doesn't seem to exist for Statistics.

M.D.

I have a Matrix of data points I am plotting using plots:-listdensityplot. That works fine.

However, the axes are labeled by row and column number of the Matrix (e.g. 1..20 or whatever). In reality, these are of course some parameters the range of which has been mapped onto the rows and columns of the Matrix.

How can I display the axes using the values of the original parameters? I know the transformation from Matrix row or column to the actual parameters (and in this case it is linear).

TIA,

Mac Dude

I have a Maple program that fits a nonlinear function with 9 parameters to a dataset that contains multiple records; each record gets fitted separately. The records are ordered by a certain experimental variable (an angle of a target). The initial parameters for each fit are the solutions of the previous fit; in this case I get relatively good initial estimates and not too much trouble fitting. I use Statistics:-NonLinearFit to do the actual fitting.

Since this is a bit time consuming and I need to do this a fair amount of times, I'd like to see if I can't speed his up by employing parallel programming.

One way to speed up a fit is to compute the sum of residuals in parallel; is there a way to do this in Maple?

Another way would be to run several fits at the same time. The problem I have with that in this case is that I use the results of the previous fit as starting values for the next fit. I might be able to increase the stride of this scheme; i.e. for 4 processes, use the result of fit 1 as starting point for fit 5; fit 2 for fit 6 etc. But before I embark on this non-trivial change; can Statistics:-NonLinearFit even be used in this way (i.e. is it thread safe)?? My fitting function is an actual function (as opposed to a procedure with local variables) so I don't think the function itself would cause trouble.

I could also contemplate the Grid package; except that I am concerned about the overhead moving the data over to each node (although it would all sit on one machine with 4 processors).

I realize that I may have to do some experimentation by myself, but if there is any experience out there I'd like to know about it...

Mac Dude