As I get my very first sabbatical going, I’m working on some homework for the American Mathematical Society’s Math Research Community in Algebraic Statistics. So far, I’ve managed to calculate a few examples by hand. But now I’m down the software rabbit hole, and I find that it’s 4 hours later and I need to vent.
Successes:
Got Singular installed and got my mac to shut up about “programs from the internet” every time I open it; Ran an example in Singular with (almost) the expected output; Ran the same example in Macaulay2 with the same output as Singular; Installed Bertini and managed to get the Bertini.