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There's also Octave [0] [0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

• tacos 11y ago
  Matlab vs Octave is one of those places where it's still worth buying the real one. Personal use license (including machine learning toolkit) is under $200. If you're not willing to spend $200 to learn something you're probably not that interested. Browse JSTOR at the library versus Googling any historical, scientific or research topic and you'll quickly learn that "internet" offers the shitty version of surprisingly many things. (Shh... it's a secret.)
  • nileshtrivedi 11y ago
    > If you're not willing to spend $200 to learn something you're probably not that interested. This is a bit presumptuous. I know people for which 200$ is a month's income. If you only consider their disposable income, 200$ would probably take 6 months.
    • tacos 11y ago
      Maybe that's why there's the $49 student license and the $99 one that includes ten toolboxes including machine learning.
  • artmageddon 11y ago
    I'd agree that Matlab is great and I honestly thought Matlab would be more expensive. I've done Andrew Ng's class, and I learned a great deal from it. Given that I haven't really figured out what I'd like to do with what I learned from the class I'd prefer to stick with the "lite" math package first till I decide to get more serious.