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How does writing python qualify you to pose things you don't know are true as facts?
by boomlinde 13y ago
How does writing python qualify you to pose things you don't know are true as facts?
- cschmidt 13y agoIt qualifies me to talk about the python ecosystem, which I know quite well. I said something I thought was true, but wasn't. That's an honest mistake. I was unaware of a library, maybe even one that is well known. I was quite surprised I had missed something, and I said 'thanks for pointing that out'. I imagine it was a blind spot for me, as I always reach for Mathematica for symbolic work, so it just wasn't something I noticed. I would never say things about ruby libraries, for example, as I don't know anything about it. I might say the same thing about R or matlab, which I do. In the immortal words of pg: When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." As in, 'python actually can do symbolic computation, see http://sympy.org' http://sympy.org' 'Oh, thanks. You're right'
- boomlinde 13y agoI'm not blaming you for being wrong. I just don't think that having a good idea about the python ecosystem qualifies denying that you can do symbolic calculus, more than knowing how to sail qualifies you to say that the earth is flat.