Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

[Grant Rettke]

Now that I wrote that... MATLAB is totally worth the money.

A nice option for reproducible research is also to develop on MATLAB
and just make sure that OCTAVE can run it, too. Nice when you don't
want to worry about N licenses for deploying on a HPC cluster.
Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Grant Rettke <address@hidden> wrote:
> Octave is an option, too: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
> Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM
> address@hidden | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
> “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates
> ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x)))
> “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop
> taking it seriously.” --Thompson
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Marvin,
>>
>> * On 2014-07-09 at 18:37, Doyley, Marvin M. wrote:
>>> I notice that you prefer to use python rather than matlab. Is there a
>>> reason for this ? Matlab is free at my institution so cost is not an
>>> issue.
>>
>> An additional blog post (with good discussion and links to other posts)
>> on the Python v. MATLAB debate:
>>
>> http://lorenabarba.com/blog/why-i-push-for-python/
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://phillipmfeldman.org/Python/Advantages_of_Python_Over_Matlab.html
>>
>>   -k.
>>