Does anybody know how Matlab became so big in science? What's the story? It's expensive, inflexible & not pedagogical. How did this happen?
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Replying to @o_guest
Free for use in academia. Is/was very very fast, vectorized loops for free, could do in 10 lines what took hundreds in most langs.
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do you mean free students? not even sure if that is true but it's certainly absolutely not true for academics.
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Replying to @o_guest
the three unis I’ve been affiliated with have blanket site licenses.
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Replying to @jtth
I have never heard of that — huh interesting, Here we need to do magic for those who use it on HPC cluster.
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Replying to @o_guest
hpc setups can be outside the bounds of the volume license sometimes. never did hpc matlab :P
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Replying to @jtth
yeah me neither I just know they need to juggle licences and other constraints which only matlab makes them do
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Replying to @o_guest
a lot of that has gone away in hpc land recently, but it’s much newer than open source desktop stacks
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Replying to @jtth
I went on a course on this a few weeks ago certainly still there for matlab which required so much jiggery pokery
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they have to write all this just for matlab https://wiki.rc.ucl.ac.uk/wiki/Full_Matlab_on_Legion …
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