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  from="Dr. Thomas Fischbacher &lt;t.fischbacher@s...&gt;"
  author="Dr. Thomas Fischbacher"
  date="2009-01-22T19:10:08"
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  author="Alexy Khrabrov"
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  from="Richard Jones &lt;rich@a...&gt;"
  author="Richard Jones"
  date="2009-01-23T13:20:09"
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  from="Dr. Thomas Fischbacher &lt;t.fischbacher@s...&gt;"
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  date="2009-01-23T14:09:57"
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  date="2009-01-23T14:42:49"
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<contents>
On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Dr. Thomas Fischbacher wrote:

&gt; So, we are considering forking that off in order to distribute it
&gt; separately. But as this would involve some amount of work that keeps
&gt; us from doing other important things, we would like to hear feedback
&gt; from people out there on who might have specific applications or
&gt; plans for code that could benefit from this. So, who would like to
&gt; use PETSc from within OCaml, and what are your applications?

I work with various graphical models for AI, which often require  
optimization.  For example, the C++ version of Conditional Random  
Fields (CRFs) enhanced with Virtual Evidence Boosting (VEB) use PETSc  
optimization (TAO).  Having PETSc callable from OCaml would definitely  
bring these methods closer to natural OCaml workflow.

Cheers,
Alexy

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