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the matlab documentation, imo, is the best technical documentation ever written for anything. if your background was more math-heavy then the docs provided easy
by princeb 9y ago
the matlab documentation, imo, is the best technical documentation ever written for anything. if your background was more math-heavy then the docs provided easy to understand translation between recognizable mathematical idioms into code (if matlab wasn't already very math-idiomatic).
and back in 2010 or so, python's numerical optimization libraries left a lot to be desired, and totally hopeless compared to matlab. (edit, i don't remember it being nearly as good as octave, which wasn't particularly good either back then).
- cossatot 9y agoMatlab's documentation is really good, except when you need to look at the algorithm and can't because it's closed-source...
- princeb 9y agohmm... no? I think you can hit ctrl-d or some shortcut like that to go straight into the code of the function that you are interested in, and it can be functions written by matlab.