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by zmk5 6y ago
> Either way, the article wasn't intended as a complete in-depth examination of the concepts of freedom and liberty (and the possible distinction between them), but rather offer some commentary on the state of the public debate surr
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by zmk5 7y ago
I really believe so too! I just hope that goes downstream to the undergrads in the fields too.
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by zmk5 7y ago
Yeah I know what you mean. I'm mechanical engineering (Controls) and the vast majority of them still use MATLAB, but they are slowly moving towards more open computing languages. I can only consider this a great thing! :) The issue I s
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by zmk5 7y ago
I'm not denying any of this and agree with your analysis about MATLABs use. I'm just saying that it's still used a lot more than people on Hacker News like to think. The University I work at still teaches MATLAB to new engine
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by zmk5 7y ago
I apologize :-/ I should have been more clear. What I was referring to was in a little more broader context than just Data Science or ML. Many of the Engineering and Math PhDs I work with typically use MATLAB or Mathematica.
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by zmk5 7y ago
MATLAB and Mathematica are the primary tools I see used by people at my uni. People are just starting to warm up to Python.
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by zmk5 7y ago
Being in academia myself, I have to disagree as well. Academia has it's own languages and tools it prefers. They have just recently started warming up to Python.
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by zmk5 7y ago
None of them use Python either. A lot just use MATLAB.