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Awesome! I just filed a few bugs with patches that let it build out-of-the-box on Ubuntu. There didn't seem to be much in this space outside of levmar ( http://www.ics.forth.gr/~lourakis/levmar/ ); levmar is great for what it does, but some friendly competition is most welcome from my perspective.

It's really surprising how broadly applicable non-linear least squares is.

Trust me if I say that this baby's performance on large problems is to good'ole levmar what Ferrari is to tricyle. Or rather, don't, just benchmark them and see for yourself ;-) Kier, Sameer and Co. have done an amazing job here.

Working on integrating fixes now...

Done!

Wow. Released, then community-sourced patches offered and integrated, all in ten hours. Sometimes open source makes me feel all warm & fuzzy inside. :)

Thank you for the bugs and the fixes.

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