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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>minfx</title><link>https://gna.org/projects/minfx/</link><description>The minfx project is a python package for numerical optimization, being a large collection of minimization algorithms.</description><image><url>/images/db/80/3-t128.png</url><title>minfx</title><link>https://gna.org/projects/minfx/</link></image><cloud path="/RPC2" domain="cia.vc" protocol="xml-rpc" port="80" registerProcedure="stats.subscribe.rss2" /><item><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:40:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/f03a</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/f03a</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;68&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/grid.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Fix for grid_split() for when the number of divisions is more than the total number of points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last divisions are discarded in this case.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Fix for grid_split() for when the number of divisions is more than the total...</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:40:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/ec77</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/ec77</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;67&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/grid.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Added the function grid_point_array() for finding the minimum point in an array of grid points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This allows for completely non-linear grid searches as each point is arbitrary.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Added the function grid_point_array() for finding the minimum point in an array...</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:16:19 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/e8db</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/e8db</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;66&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/grid.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Added support for constraints into grid_split().&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Points which violate the constraints are now eliminated prior to the grid subdivision.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Added support for constraints into grid_split(). Points which violate the...</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:04:46 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/e523</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/e523</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;65&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/grid.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Added the grid_split() generator function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This takes a linear gird, converts it to a linear array of points, and then splits these returning&lt;br /&gt;each grid subdivision.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Added the grid_split() generator function. This takes a linear gird, converts it...</title></item><item><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:07:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/e195</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/e195</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;64&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/ (base_classes.py grid.py):                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             The optimisation output is more consistent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The numpy array has been even better formatted.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>The optimisation output is more consistent. The numpy array has been even better...</title></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:18:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/de47</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/de47</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;63&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/generic.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Bug fix for the catching of models with zero parameters.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Bug fix for the catching of models with zero parameters.</title></item><item><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:17:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/dadd</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/dadd</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;62&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/grid.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Modified the grid search to return a warning and to handle models with zero parameters.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Modified the grid search to return a warning and to handle models with zero...</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:34:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/d774</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/d774</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;61&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/generic.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             The output of generic_minimise() has been cleaned up - the numpy parameter is printed as a list.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>The output of generic_minimise() has been cleaned up - the numpy parameter is...</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:33:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/d40e</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/d40e</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;60&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/base_classes.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             The optimisation output has been prettified - the numpy array has been better formatted.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>The optimisation output has been prettified - the numpy array has been better...</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:13:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/d0ed</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/d0ed</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;59&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/grid.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Removed some debugging code.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Removed some debugging code.</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:11:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/cdb5</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/cdb5</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;58&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/grid.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Modified the grid search print out to be prettier.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Modified the grid search print out to be prettier.</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/c903</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/c903</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;57&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/grid.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Redesigned the grid search function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The grid_ops arg has been replaced by the more intuitive num_incs, lower and upper args fro the&lt;br /&gt;number of increments, lower bound, and upper bound value lists respectively.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new incs argument has been added to allow custom non-linear grid searches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new MinfxError system is now being used, and many arguments are being checked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The docstring has been converted to epydoc format.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Redesigned the grid search function. The grid_ops arg has been replaced by the...</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:25:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/c5a2</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/c5a2</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;56&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/generic.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             A MinfxError is now raised if the supplied minimisation algorithm cannot be identified.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>A MinfxError is now raised if the supplied minimisation algorithm cannot be...</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:25:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/c278</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/c278</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;55&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/errors.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Added a rudimentary error system.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Added a rudimentary error system.</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:41:58 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/beac</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/beac</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;54&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/generic.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Removed the grid search option from the generic_minimise() function.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The minimisation options are too messy and inflexible.  The grid search should be preformed by&lt;br /&gt;direct calls to grid.grid().         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Removed the grid search option from the generic_minimise() function. The...</title></item><item><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:32:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/bb56</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/bb56</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;53&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/minfx/grid.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Modified the grid search print out to indicated the number of grid points used.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Modified the grid search print out to indicated the number of grid points used.</title></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:32:53 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/b81a</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/b81a</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;52&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/doc/Release_Checklist:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Some more fixes for the release checklist document.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Some more fixes for the release checklist document.</title></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:09:38 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/b4f5</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/b4f5</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;51&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/tags/1.0.2/setup.py:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Updated the version number to 1.0.2.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Updated the version number to 1.0.2.</title></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:08:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/b17f</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/b17f</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;50&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/CHANGES:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Merged r48 from the 1.0.2 tag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The command used was:&lt;br /&gt;svn merge -r47:48 svn+ssh://&lt;a href="/doc/mail" onmouseover="this.href=&amp;apos;mai&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;lto&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;:&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;bu&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;g&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;man&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;@s&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;vn&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;.g&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;n&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;a&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;.o&amp;apos;+&amp;apos;rg&amp;apos;"&gt;bugman at svn dot gna dot org&lt;/a&gt;/svn/minfx/tags/1.0.2 .         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Merged r48 from the 1.0.2 tag. The command used was: svn merge -r47:48...</title></item><item><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:07:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/ae4f</guid><link>http://cia.vc/stats/project/minfx/.message/ae4f</link><description>         &lt;div style="border: 1px solid #888; background-color: #DDD; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; margin: 0em;"&gt;              Commit by &lt;strong&gt;bugman&lt;/strong&gt;                          &lt;span style="color: #888;"&gt; :: &lt;/span&gt;                          r&lt;b&gt;49&lt;/b&gt;             &lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;/trunk/doc/Release_Checklist:                      &lt;/div&gt;         &lt;div style="padding: 0em; margin: 0.5em 0em;"&gt;             Fix for the release checklist document.         &lt;/div&gt;     </description><title>Fix for the release checklist document.</title></item></channel></rss>