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Do you actually use scipy? I tried briefly and was awfully disappointed. For starters, the documentation was crap. Followed closely by the fact that I wanted
by earl 16y ago
Do you actually use scipy?
I tried briefly and was awfully disappointed. For starters, the documentation was crap. Followed closely by the fact that I wanted to take the norm of a vector and had to try 3 different norm functions before one worked. Further, I had a sparse matrix and all the functions -- of course, this was mentioned nowhere -- magically desparsified my vectors. Apparently if you want to operate on sparse matrices/vectors, you need to pull in an entirely separate import and potentially change the name of all functions.
I was left completely underwhelmed.
Not to mention that installing matlab was a pain, but installing scipy was an order of magnitude worse. ports failed to work, the binary distributions wanted much older python than I had, etc.
It would be awesome to see them seriously take on matlab, but I have to conclude they have a very long way to go.
If their gpu implementation is anything like their sparse vector/matrix implementation, matlab will remain the language of choice for a long time.
- tomrod 16y agoI have a friend in Apple's data mining group who told me they use Numpy/SciPy exclusively for their programming. I was surprised. My experience has not been all that great either. But it's fun to tinker.
- melonakos 16y agoThe MATLAB GPU implementation is seriously flawed. For a better approach, see http://www.accelereyes.com/products/compare http://www.accelereyes.com/products/compare
- earl 16y agoDude, I'm not hating, but when you are plugging accelereyes, maybe you should mention you're the CEO and cofounder. That being said, it looks like interesting tech.
- melonakos 16y agoI'm definitely partial :) I was relying on my profile to make it clear, but that's a bit buried. BTW, you're profile has me cracking up in how you share your email. I tweeted it here: http://twitter.com/melonakos/status/11101399047737344 http://twitter.com/melonakos/status/11101399047737344 Do you think GPUs in R would be useful? We're heading that way with LIBJACKET.