@fchollet I like Maylab's integrated ide where I can see variables, types, produce nice plots, create GUIs, nice debugger etc
Occasionally I am reminded that closed-source scientific software like Mathematica and Matlab is still a thing. Anybody uses that? Why?
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@dovgalec have you tried IPython or Jupyter? What are your thoughts?
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@fchollet Same reason Elsevier still exists. Universities are locked in. Bad equilibria are hard to break.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@fchollet because 1. free licenses to students, gets them addicted 2. license fees are a tiny rounding error in finance 3. legacy systemsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@fchollet libraries. I know some neuroscientists who use MATLAB because of popular toolboxes for that field.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@fchollet Because your PI's super specialized library is written only in one of those languages.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@fchollet Sometimes speed, sometimes built-in functions, sometimes legacy code. Hoping Julia fills the gap one day.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@fchollet like the Jesuits used to say: get them while they are young. Matlab is huge in universitiesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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