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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Also, a student license is dirt cheap if you want to install it on your home machine while in school.
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I think I was able to get it for the cost of the CD they burned the installer onto. Or it was free.
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that's how they hook you in...

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Yup. I was dissuaded from considering getting deeply invested in it intellectually by looking at the …
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price of a license for doing production work. Though there was a professor in my department who paid the…
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five-digit annual licensing fee out of his own pocket for his sideline in private consulting.
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He left his tenured position a year or two after I finished my MA to do that full-time.
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Honestly, dude was so effortlessly brilliant that he wasn't a great instructor — he didn't even know how…
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have not felt such restrictions at @TCDBioengineer or
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