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Hard not to say "and nothing of value was lost." MathWorks is a curse especially once you've left university and all the tools you got used to are no longer fre
by noobermin 6y ago
Hard not to say "and nothing of value was lost." MathWorks is a curse especially once you've left university and all the tools you got used to are no longer free.
- milesvp 6y agoThat said, I still regret not realizing how useful matlab would have been in undergrad, for avoiding wasting time on answers that looked wrong but were not actually meant to cancel out perfectly. Or helping me track down a stray sign change. But this was over twenty years ago, and I’m sure I could find good enough alternatives today. Course, I’d still probably ignore them as well if I was an undergrad today, because I’m stubborn and prefer to suffer in weird ways...
- bsder 6y ago> Course, I’d still probably ignore them as well if I was an undergrad today, because I’m stubborn and prefer to suffer in weird ways... I'm surprised--I remember the HP-28 coming out--those things went through engineering undergrads like WILDFIRE. Mathematica came out about 2 years later--I can't tell you how much I abused that. Matlab, on the other hand, just never seemed to be useful. If I needed statistics, there were better programs. If I wanted graphing, there were better programs. If I needed to do signal processing work, I was better off writing the algorithm program myself so I understood what its limitations and bottlenecks were. The only time Matlab seemed useful to me was in modeling RF signal chains.
- noobermin 6y agoToday, numpy and scipy in my opinion provide a serious alternative to matlab that's free both in terms of beer and speech, so it's hard to argue for matlab beyond familiarity's sake.