I of course don't believe myself to have all the answers but perhaps a good discussion can be had.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I'd love to read more. Also, IMO it would be more healthy for the field if you were a bit less divisive about language pref.
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noted! Although I have a feeling people will always disagree.
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Yep, language battles are as old as computers.They'll never go away because problem is multidimensional without optimal solution
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In the same way as there is no "correct" way to demonstrate (they will always tone police you) I think there is no correct way
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to say I think a certain tool is bad. Even with such a mild-ish piece people thought I was personally attacking them in fields
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like Engineering while other people thought I should have not been so vague... you can't please everybody. I am sure I can send
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you a draft though if you want to optimise how pleased you will be and obviously help me out tons.

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I'd be happy & honored to help. You'd be colluding with the enemy though, since I've co-auth'd a book on Matlab for psychologists
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Blaming a programming language is the least best way to address the need for quantitative skills in our fields
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@Neurallegory fair enough, although I'm actually making it clear I blame Matlab the culture, not just the language.
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disagree, matlab is really quite an important pillar of toxic structure to dismantle
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if 'twas just matlab then you'd see the same problem in R or Octave. It's not matlab it's the acceptance of lazy solutions and lack of rigor
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I think my blog post outlines problems categorically not found in R and I explain what's wrong with Octave also.
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Anything with a GUI is a path to short cuts. Octave is almost indistinguishable from MATLAB save for GUI
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I explain that and why it's a problem but you probably didn't read that bit yet?
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anyway, like I said, looking forward to your write up on the problem and solutions maybe, but it's super late so

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i would.
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i did some writing in a related direction a while back - http://christianbattista.com/psychoinformatics.html … - feel free to reuse/ignore as you see fit
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will check out, I'm predictably at gym rn.

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I have thought and talked about similar altho not exactly what I was thinking about here. Do you plan to create this UG?

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raw materials are there at most unis but big challenge would be getting all the profs from various depts pointed in the same direction
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