And it had a good PR team and it snuck in early.
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
@NeuroStats when I say move away from Matlab, it's for the kind of work I do. -
I was talking about psych/neuro/cog modelling herehttp://neuroplausible.com/matlab
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I realise a lot of the people who don't or can't change have OK to good reasons. But like
@usethespacebar has said Python is becoming just -
as good if not better. But I'm always talking about modelling myself. I realise applied maths might be dramatically different.
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The change is happening, but it takes time and can't happen without a community creating newer resources. Usually involves going above/beyond primary responsibilities.
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