And it had a good PR team and it snuck in early.
That's disappointing. I wonder if @russel_winder might know some solution for open source applied maths? Are you all stuck with Matlab?
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It's discipline dependent. Astrophysicists went with Python and create the Astropy subsystem. There is Sympy, but I not au fait with it.
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Some Matlab users who got me in to do Python workshops were interested in the usual Python "data science" stack but also GNURadio.
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Other Matlab users who had me in for Python workshops were interested in the various financial data feeds and found the Python stack fine.
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I see. So basically unless the field adopts open source it's tough. Cultural change of a deeper kind needed before an individual can switch.
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Not necessarily a whole field but a goodly number within. It's the social acceptance of the stack as valid in the field that is critical.
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An individual alone is an outlier. Two or three groups publicly using a technology become a vanguard. After that it blossoms or dies.
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The critical factor, e.g. Astropy, is providing a library that everyone jumps on because it helps everyone, not seen as a USP for one.
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Right, yeah, this makes sense. Thanks. Also to clarify for
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